SCAA Job Listing: Event Marketing Manager
REPORTS TO: Director of Marketing & Communications with a strong interrelationship with Events Send resume and cover letter to tshenson@scaa.org. OVERVIEW & ROLE DESCRIPTION: We are a rapidly growing non-profit organization operating in the highly interesting and energizing world of coffee. While we offer a casual and flexible work environment (i.e., we have a lot …
SCAA Job Listing: Sales Coordinator
JOB DESCRIPTION | sales coordinator (full time) Reports to: Business Development Manager Submit resume & cover letter to: kgoulding@scaa.org OVERVIEW & ROLE DESCRIPTION: We are a rapidly growing non-profit organization operating in the highly interesting and energizing world a coffee. While we offer a casual and flexible work environment (i.e., we have a lot of …
SCAA Annual General Meeting 2013
We invite you to join our first web-based Annual General Meeting for the SCAA membership. This is an important opportunity to learn about the financial status of the Association, progress against the strategic plan, and understand more about how SCAA is working to promote, recognize and develop the specialty coffee industry. We’ve switched to a …
Request for Presentation Proposals for The 25th Annual SCAA Event
Request for Presentation Proposals for The 25th Annual SCAA Event 25th Annual Exposition & 5th Annual Symposium Boston, Massachusetts April 10 – 14, 2013 DEADLINE AUGUST 27th Are you a coffee industry expert? Are you an engaging speaker with cutting edge information to share? If so, SCAA’s Professional Development Committee is now accepting presentation proposals …
Barista Guild Camp Pull-A-Shot East Coast Recaps!
Camp-Pull-A-Shot East Coast | 2012 from Wilbur Curtis on Vimeo. Check out a fantastic video recap of Barista Guild of America’s recent Camp Pull-A-Shot in Pembroke, VA by our friends at Curtis. Another great recap by BGA Executive Council member Colin Whitcomb can be found on the Barista Guild blog, click here to view this post. West …
Roasters Guild 2012 Silent Auction Accepting Donations
The 2012 Silent Auction will be held at the 12th Annual Roasters Guild Retreat at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington, August 16-19, 2012. To learn more, visit www.roastersguild.org. The Roasters Guild is pleased to announce that this year’s beneficiary for the annual Roasters Guild Retreat Silent Auction will be Coffee Kids! Coffee Kids, Inc., is a …
Differing Perspectives, Common Goals: Demystifying Specialty Coffee
By Lily Kubota, Communications Specialist, Specialty Coffee Association of America Specialty coffee is deeply rooted in a complex and intricate value chain, made up of individuals whose passion and dedication to quality is evident. The specialty coffee industry hopes to communicate this commitment to quality at each step in the supply chain, to distinguish specialty …
The Tasting Experience: Our Five Senses and Some of the Ways They Influence Each Other
By Emma Sage, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the industry about specialty coffee as an experience rather than a product. In specialty coffee, we take a lot of care to preserve the quality of our product from seed to cup, but we have …
Is Coffee Just Like Wine?
By Trish Rothgeb, Owner / Roastmaster, Wrecking Ball Coffee It may be a bit unseasonal, but I recently found myself reminded of the words uttered at the end of that classic Jimmy Stewart movie we watch every Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life. Tiny Zuzu is nestled snugly in her father’s arms as the cast of characters …
Defining Specialty: An Origin Perspective
By Emilio Lopez Diaz, Coffee Producer, Cuatro M Single Origin Coffees Long gone are the days when coffee was just a commodity, when only big corporations would have access to coffee at origin, and when just a few exporters had access to roasters. There had to come a crash in the industry for many to …
Disruptive Innovation: Anticipating the Effects of the Single Serve Market
By James Hoffmann, Co-Owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters Disruptive innovation is often defined as the kind of innovation that creates new markets. Single serve coffee has certainly been such an innovation—and since its creation, it has seen incredible uptake amongst consumers and, in some cases, has seen exponential growth. What is most interesting— and perhaps …
Hot Coffee: The Cult of Cool
By Julie Wolfson Discovering How Specialty Coffees Are Heating Up in the Foodie Frenzy How, I wondered, did I find myself standing with coffee growers from around the world watching Charles Babinski do a step-by-step demonstration of the process for making coffee in a siphon? The next day, I experienced my first attempt at cupping, …