by andrew | Feb 20, 2012 | competitions, events, industry
Our thanks should go out to Natvia for their enthusiastic support and sponsorship of World Coffee Events and particularly their Send me to Vienna promotion, which truly embodies the spirit of WCE’s mission to bring together the global coffee community. The Send...
by andrew | Feb 12, 2012 | events, industry, news
While I was on the road for the past month, there was no news story from the coffee world that caught my attention more than the tragic fire at SafeHouse Coffee in Griffin, GA. Thankfully no one was injured, but the business was left destroyed. More than just a coffee...
by andrew | Oct 24, 2011 | business, competitions, events, marketing, news
Last week while paging through the October 2011 issue of Bon Appetite magazine, I nearly fell off of my chair. Staring right back on page 25 was the smiling face of a friend, Italian Barista Champion Francesco Sanapo. Francesco is the face of an advertising campaign...
by andrew | Oct 7, 2011 | competitions, events, marketing
It’s been just over 1 month since we left Moscow’s famed Red Square, site of the 2011 Spasskaya Tower and International Coffee Festival. I still find myself in a state of disbelief or maybe denial: did it all really happen? As quoted today by Sprudge, the...
by andrew | Sep 14, 2011 | associations, competitions, events
Breathtaking is the only word that comes to mind when describing the 2011 World Barista Championship held this past June in Bogota, Colombia. No, I am not referring to Bogota’s 2,625 m (8,612′) elevation that had many of us looking for commemorative oxygen...
by andrew | Aug 20, 2011 | events, origin, roasting
Origin tours are important in the specialty coffee industry so that buyers can travel to growers’ estates and develop productive personal relationships, understand the foreign and complex inner workings of farms and local culture, as well as exchange information...
