#75 | Consumer Desire Along Roast Degree: What Do Specialty Coffee Drinkers Actually Want From Us? | Erika Vonie, Expo Lectures 2019
This podcast is brought to you with the support of With over a decade of experience in specialty coffee, Erika Vonie believes that coffee is for everyone. Like many before her, she started as a barista, and worked her way through management, events coordination, quality control, education, green buying, and importing. Along with being the …
Learnings from Aguadas – 25 Magazine, Issue 10
ANDREA OTTE shares learnings from Aguadas, a program she introduced in Issue 10’s “Vision Check,” examining how it could provide a blueprint for farmworker inclusion in this 25 Magazine online exclusive. In places such as Colombia, where the regional style of production means that farmers oversee processing from cherry to dried parchment, the role of workers is …
SCA Co-hosts Webinar: Learnings from Next-Generation Landscape Approach
SCA co-hosts a webinar on landscape assessment Tuesday, October 22, at 11 am EDT. Register here. As coffee businesses (and coffee lovers), we are often inclined to see the world through coffee: farmers are coffee producers, farms are coffee farms, and communities are coffee communities, regardless of what other income streams support the farmer, what other crops …
SCA Announces First Event of the 2020 Sensory Program: Sensory Summit at UC Davis
By VICENTE PARTIDA Sensory Summit, a two-day conference designed to educate, inform, and inspire the specialty coffee sensory professional, will return to the purpose-built Sensory Theatre inside the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California Davis January 30 – February 1, 2020. The 2020 event marks both the conference’s third instance at UC Davis …
Simonelli Group Partners with Coffee Science Foundation (CSF) for New Espresso Research
The SCA Coffee Science Foundation (CSF), launched by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) in April 2019, has announced that Italian coffee machine manufacturer Simonelli Group will become the first major partner of the organization, beginning a new four-year research project. The Simonelli Group’s donation to the CSF is the single largest contribution to date since …
#74 | Drip Coffee Brewing and the Coffee Brewing Chart | Bill Ristenpart, Expo Lectures 2019
This podcast is brought to you with the support of The process for brewing coffee appears simple: One pours hot water over some coffee grounds, and then drinks the liquid that passes through a filter. This superficial perspective, however, belies a sequence of complicated physical and chemical processes that govern the quality of the resulting …
Update on the Slate of Candidates for the 2019 SCA Board of Directors Elections
BY YANNIS APOSTOLOPOULOS As presented last month, the Nominating Committee of the SCA Board, led by President Heather Perry, has nominated the following professionals from a pool of dozens who responded to the call for nominations made in June for the 2019 SCA Board of Directors elections: Burak Alici, CEO, QVIDTVM Inc Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos, CEO, Coffee …
Carlos Brando and Veronica Herlina on Scaling Local Action for Global Sustainability Results | Re:co Symposium 2019
This video is brought to you with the support of Today, we’re very happy to present the third episode of the “The Role of Innovation and Technical Advancement,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session explored and evaluated advances in innovation positioned to make an impact within our industry as we …
#73 | Re:co Podcast – Carlos Brando and Veronica Herlina on Scaling Local Action for Global Sustainability Results (S5, Ep. 3)
This podcast is brought to you with the support of Today, we’re very happy to present the third episode of the “The Role of Innovation and Technical Advancement,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session explored and evaluated advances in innovation positioned to make an impact within our industry as we …
Defining the “Perfect” Nitro Pour
Sponsored content provided by Enhanced Beverage Solutions These are all questions you have likely asked a fellow coffee professional or have personally been asked by a coffee consumer. But what about these questions: How long does a quality cascade last? What glass showcases a nitro pour the best? How much head should be on a …
Designing a Map of the Global Coffee Sector | Part 1
This piece is the first of a series by KIM ELENA IONESCU exploring the systems map developed as part of the SCA’s year-long Price Crisis Response (PCR) initiative. While this map is still a work in progress, one of the guiding principles of the PCR has been to seek input from diverse sources to challenge …
Vera Espindola Rafael on Markets in Producing Countries | Re:co Symposium 2019
This video is brought to you with the support of Today, we’re very happy to present the second episode of “Growing Consumption: Letting Go of Sameness,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. We’ve grown accustomed to specialty coffee consumption growing at a fast pace, but some signs indicate it may be slowing. …