by andrew | Mar 3, 2010 | competitions, events, hawaii |
In two coffee industry firsts this past weekend in Los Angeles, Pete Licata of Honolulu became the first representative from Hawaii to win the Western Regional Barista Competition and also the first-ever to prevail at any barista competition using 100% Hawaiian...
by andrew | Nov 20, 2009 | hawaii, news |
The James Beard Foundation, leading organization representing America’s culinary community, interviewed me for their feature piece: Jobs We Love. Jobs We Love: Andrew Hetzel, Coffee Taster It’s a good thing Andrew Hetzel drinks a lot of joe: as a...
by andrew | Nov 2, 2009 | associations, events, featured, hawaii, marketing, origin |
From October 26 – October 30, 2009 I was honored to be the Hawaii coffee tour guide for a group of coffee professionals representing the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe, who visited Hawaii as their annual origin tour destination. For one week, the group...
by andrew | Sep 14, 2009 | hawaii, marketing, origin
The Pacific Business News and Honolulu Star Bulletin picked up the this announcement for the upcoming SCAE tour organized for Hawaii. PBN even went so far as to make it one of their top business stories for Friday. The Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s...
by andrew | Sep 11, 2009 | hawaii, news, origin, roasting
This morning I was forwarded a link from Campos Coffee in Sydney with their review of Hula Daddy Coffee’s Kona Sweet, which has been selected as their featured coffee of the month. Rarely do coffees meet expectations- especially when they are prohibitively...
by andrew | Sep 10, 2009 | events, hawaii
The Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s annual origin tour is coming to the Island of Hawaii for the first time ever this October 26-31st, organized and led by Andrew Hetzel of CafeMakers (Kamuela) and author of The Hawaii Coffee Book, Shawn Steiman...
