SCA Chapter Spotlight: Ukraine
The SCA is a global community comprised of local communities who all share the belief that coffee is more than a commodity. We come together to develop and exchange knowledge, expand our network, share our experiences, and to simply make coffee better. Once a community of like-minded individuals has come together in a location, there’s …
Athens Confirmed as Host City for World of Coffee 2021
World of Coffee is Europe’s largest coffee trade show organized by the SCA and supported by Host Sponsor BWT water+more. Traveling to a different European city each June, World of Coffee is the essential event for coffee professionals – drawing a loyal audience from the global specialty coffee community, more than 80% of whom return …
#82 | Sensory and Chemical Explorations into Drip Brew Coffee Flavor Over Time | Expo Lectures 2019
This podcast was brought to you with the support of The UC Davis Coffee Center is engaged in comprehensive sensory research using trained panel descriptive analysis to investigate how different parameters related to coffee brewing impact the flavor, and how these can be manipulated to an individual’s desired effect. Of these factors, time can …
Registration is Now Open for the 2020 Specialty Coffee Expo
Now in its 32nd year, the Specialty Coffee Expo is the largest gathering of specialty coffee professionals in North America, attracting over 14,000 visitors and featuring dozens of lectures, workshops, courses, and coffee competitions. Features at Expo Over 500 exhibitors showcase their most innovative products services at Expo and compete for the show’s Best New …
#81 | The Science of Coffee Freshness | Samo Smrke, Expo Lectures 2019
This podcast was brought to you with the support of Coffee freshness is one of the core values of specialty coffee. But why is preserving the freshness so important? We might strive to maximize coffee’s potential to keep its vibrancy as fresh as the day when roasted or we keep coffee fresh to ensure quality …
Opportunities Ahead – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
As we prepare to release the results of the SCA Price Crisis Response (PCR) Initiative’s work, it’s clear that managing this crisis – and moving it into a recovery stage – is going to take years of effort, collaboration, and intervention. Hearteningly, we also see a number of short-term actions our industry can start to …
The Cost Conundrum – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
ANDREA ESTRELLA, STEVE BOUCHER, and CHRISTOPH SAENGER share results of a recent research collaboration between the University of Muenster’s TRANSSUSTAIN research project, University of California Davis, and the International Coffee Organization that could help build an ongoing benchmark for farmer profitability. One of the reasons why a benchmark for farmer profitability doesn’t yet exist is …
Mapping the Complex: Designing a Map of the Global Coffee Sector – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
It’s been one year since the SCA set up the Price Crisis Response (PCR) Initiative, a one-year project tasked with producing a report of recommendations on both short- and long-term actions we can take to alleviate the crisis. JENN RUGOLO sat down with the SCA’s Chief Sustainability Officer, KIM ELENA IONESCU, to explore one of …
Less Strong, More Sweet – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
Graduate student MACKENZIE BATALI, Professor CARLITO LEBRILLA, Professor JEAN-XAVIER GUINARD, and Professor WILLIAM D. RISTENPART share surprising results of “fractionation” experiments at UC Davis exploring the natural sweetness of black drip brew coffee in partnership with the SCA and Breville Corporation. If you talk to aficionados of specialty coffee, however, you quickly learn that other …
The Fallacies of “Youth”: Finding New Solutions for Young People in Coffee Growing Communities – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
JOANNA FURGIUELE asks: Do we really understand why young people are leaving coffee, or are we making damaging assumptions that keep us from finding real solutions? In Latin America, 20 percent of the region’s total population is between 15 and 24, the largest proportion of young people ever in the region’s history.[1] Across Africa, there …
Beyond the Stereotype – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
But, says JONAS LEME FERRARESSO, there’s more to the country than high volumes and cutting-edge crop technology – Brazil’s coffee crop has undergone enormous changes and many challenges over the past century-and-a-half. It’s not just that Brazil has held the title of the highest coffee producing country for so long that makes some associate “Brazil” …
Come Together – 25 Magazine, Issue 11
This year’s Festival of Two Cities took place in Seoul, bringing together political leaders, artists, musicians, researchers, tech innovators, and – as you may not have expected – the specialty coffee community. Many local specialty coffee communities meet regularly at events all over the world, from major international tradeshows to domestic coffee festivals. And so, …