U.S. Coffee Championship Arena
By Lara Gallagher, SCAA Welcome to the 2016 U.S Coffee Championship season! This year in the USCC Arena, we’ll be holding the Final rounds of the United States Barista Championship and the United States Brewers Cup along with the newly re-named United States Roaster Championship. Prior to arriving in Atlanta, Barista and Brewers Cup competitors …
Three New Additions for SCAA in Atlanta
By Stephen Morrissey, SCAA The world is changing rapidly around us. Coffee is being consumed, prepared, and sold very differently today, even compared with just a few years ago. Our annual Expo has always been one of the best places to see these emerging trends up-close, with many companies choosing the event to unveil new …
Katie Carguilo – Beyond the Bar
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
How to Use the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel in 8 Steps
The Coffee Tasters Flavor Wheel, a collaborative effort by the Specialty Coffee Association of America and World Coffee Research, is designed to be a tool for the coffee taster. As a tool, it is meant to be intuitive, enjoyable to use, and a benefit to those who seek to analyze and describe coffees. Here are …
A Science Primer on the SCAA/WCR Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel
By Emma Sage, SCAA Coffee Science Manager Now that we have released the new SCAA Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, I want to tell you more of the story as to how we got there. Specifically, about the quantity and quality of scientific research that went into this project, which was a massive collaborative effort worth …
The Inaugural Sensory Summit: A Roasters Guild Event Takes Place on UC Davis Campus
By Lily Kubota, Content & Communications Manager, SCAA Delivering a spectacular coffee service was just the beginning for the Roasters Guild’s inaugural “second event” (the “first event” being Roasters Guild Retreat), which took place last week on the University of California, Davis campus. Over 100 seasoned coffee professionals and academics gathered at the inaugural Sensory Summit: A Roasters Guild Event for an educational …
Tim Wendelboe – Soil Biology
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
Reinventing the (Flavor) Wheel: Industry Collaborates to Identify Coffee Flavor Attributes
Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel Revised for the First Time in Over 20 Years One of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel has been updated for the first time in its 21-year history. The foundation of this work, the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon, …
A New Flavor Wheel: a Message from Ric Rhinehart
By Ric Rhinehart, SCAA Executive Director Just over twenty years ago, Ted Lingle, then the Executive Director of the SCAA, undertook a tremendous project to formally catalog and describe many of the practices and beliefs of the specialty coffee community around the intersection of coffee quality and taste. One of the results of this exercise …
S&D Brings Coffee Leaders to Re:co Symposium through Fellowship Program
Going in to its eighth year, the annual specialty coffee symposium (formerly SCAA Symposium, now Re:co Symposium) has been a place not only to explore the future possibilities of coffee by taking a look at where we are headed, but also by taking a step back to view the current state of our industry, assessing where …
Klaus Thomsen – Ensuring Coffee’s Future
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
Happy Holidays from SCAA!
Wishing you health and happiness this holiday season and prosperity in the new year. As we reflect on 2015 and prepare for the new year, we look forward to continue serving our members in all that we do. This holiday season, we encourage you to give someone the #GiftOfCoffee and share it with us by …