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 …
From Bucket to Barista
NERAK is the premier provider of state-of-the-art systems for conveying specialty materials. NERAK conveyors gently move delicate products like green, roasted and ground coffee with a minimum of product separation and degradation. NERAK’s whisper-quiet conveyors keep spillage and vibration to an absolute minimum while maintaining product integrity. In addition to offering the quietest and gentlest products on the market, …
Nominations Being Accepted for 2016 Annual Recognition Awards & Sustainability Award
Nominations for SCAA’s Annual Recognition Awards are now open! These prestigious awards will be presented at SCAA Expo featuring Re:co Symposium in Atlanta, GA this upcoming April. We encourage you to nominate a member of the coffee community to be considered for selection by filling out and submitting one of the forms linked below. The deadline to …
Farmers and Farm Workers: What Have We Been Missing?
Streamed live on Dec 3, 2015 In this #MakeCoffeeBetter webinar, SCAA’s Director of Sustainability Kim Elena Ionescu, along with Verité Program Director Quinn Kepes, and Finca La Merced’s Juan Luis Barrios, discusses farm workers.
SCAA Brings International Group to the Birthplace of Coffea Arabica
By Cait McGehee, SCAA There are few things more enchanting for coffee professionals than traveling to origin. The breathtaking landscapes are enough to make our hearts skip a beat, not to mention the value of witnessing the various stages of coffee production firsthand and meeting the people who make it happen. Imagine experiencing all of …
SCAA Board of Directors Approves Slate of Candidates for 2016 Elections
The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved a slate of candidates, as recommended by the Nominating Committee, for the 2016 Board of Directors Elections. The board has nominated Tracy Ging of Volcafe Specialty and Tea for 2nd Vice President. For the five open director positions, …