Behmor Connected Brewer Integrates Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service
New Participant in Amazon’s Dash Replenishment Service The Behmor Connected Brewer, which has recently earned the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Home Brewer Certification, is integrated with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service and Amazon Dash Replenishment. Manufactured by Behmor—a leader in connected coffee brewing and home coffee roasting technology—the Behmor Connected Brewer is the world’s first connected brewer to receive the SCA …
Are You Handing Away Your Future One Cupping at a Time?
Sponsored Content Provided by Cropster Imagine if a business threw away valuable competitive information every day – information they paid to create. That would be crazy, right? Well, amazingly that describes the great majority of coffee businesses worldwide. It might even describe yours. How can this be? Cupping is high value work. But the final output …
Cuisinart Launches an Automatic Pour-Over Brewer
The Cuisinart PurePrecision™ Coffee Brewer has recently earned the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Home Brewer Certification. This machine provides an authentic pour-over brewing process by executing three vital variables. These variables are precisely controlled to create the magic of coffeehouse-like perfection. First, broad water dispersion evenly saturates all the grinds, then allows them to “bloom,” extracting their …
Behmor Connected Brewer Integrates Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service
New Participant in Amazon’s Dash Replenishment Service The Behmor Connected Brewer, which has recently earned the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Home Brewer Certification, is integrated with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service and offers the Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS). Manufactured by Behmor—a leader in connected coffee brewing and home coffee roasting technology—the Behmor Connected Brewer is the world’s first connected brewer to …
Remembering John Rapinchuk (1952 – 2017)
By Ted R. Lingle I had the pleasure of knowing John Rapinchuk for more than 35 years. I first met him in 1981 when SCAA was in the formative stage. At the time he was working with Marvin Golden at Golden Food and Beverage in Boston. In addition to selling fine wines (both Marvin and …
Specialty Coffee Standards and Best-Practices
Over the past year, the Technical Standards Committee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America—now the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), after the recent unification with the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe—has been busy working on revisions to SCAA standards and creating new standards to protect the quality and integrity of specialty coffee. Recently, many new documents have been …
Sara Morrocchi | Preserving the Coffee Supply Chain Amid Big Money Investment
Big investors coming into specialty coffee has many potential upsides, but it can also include changing payment structures, which can lead to increased price exposure for importers and growers. Sara Morrocchi, an expert in supply chain strategies and development work, explains the dimensions of the problem at #RecoDublin.
Ben Bicknell | Tiga Raja: Dreams & Serendipity, Disaster & Opportunity
Vertical integration is an attractive dream with many potential benefits to quality and social impact, but also greater exposure to risk. Ben Bicknell, Strategic Projects Manager at Five Senses Coffee, gives the #RecoDublin audience an inside look at how those dreams can both falter and flourish when a roaster finds themselves in the position of …
Nick Tolley: Balancing Specialty Needs With Big Money Investment
Specialty coffee is often seen as inherently unscalable, while big money investment is focused on scale above all. At Re:co Dublin, Nick Tolley, co-founder of Taylor St. Baristas, and Harris+Hoole in partnership with Tesco, looks at how much truth there is in this opposition, and how to grow a specialty coffee culture in a scalable …
Roasters Guild Trierside Chat: U.S. Roaster Championship & Qualifying Event
Streamed live on Dec 14, 2016
Re:co Debate: Great Coffee – Does It Scale?
Re:co introduced a new session format this year at the Dublin event, with panelists debating the topic “Great Coffee – does it scale?” Find out how attendees felt on the subject before the debate with live-polling, and check back for the conclusion in Part 2 to find out if their perspectives changed!
Company Culture: Doing Good | A Letter From the Editor
The coffee industry has a long way to go on the road towards having a sustainable and equitable supply chain. However, it is clear that there are many smart and compassionate people working in coffee who strive to make a difference through their everyday actions. We see this through the work being done by roasting …