Toby’s Estate will kick-start the first Knowledge Talks event of the year with a guest presentation about coffee roasting, education and scientific research.
CoffeeMind Founder Morten Münchow will provide audiences with valuable insights into the foundations and research of coffee roasting, also touching on his time spent developing the roasting certification system for the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE, now the Specialty Coffee Association).
Morten’s Knowledge Talks tour dates are as follows:
- Brisbane: Monday 12 February at Newstead Brewing, 67 Castlemaine Street, Milton.
- Melbourne: Tuesday 13 February at Toby’s Estate 325 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
- Sydney: Thursday 15 February at Toby’s Estate 4/29-33 Bourke Road, Alexandria.
All events will run from 6pm to 8pm.
For tickets, click here.
Morten has been working in coffee roasting since 2005. He was originally employed as a coffee roaster after graduating with a Master’s Degree in Biology and Philosophy. In 2007, he started his freelance career as a coffee roasting teacher at the London School of Coffee and also worked as a consultant for coffee roasters worldwide.
With his extensive experience in training, he was asked to take over the development of the SCAE’s roasting certification system in 2013. He formalised and established ongoing research at the SCAE as part of his part-time role as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, and has thus far generated more than 20 research projects, of which five are published in scientific journals.
In the same year, Morten decided to expand his activities and started CoffeeMind, a Copenhagen-based coffee academy providing unique educational coffee courses, research and consultancy services within the various areas of the specialty coffee industry.
To buy tickets to the Knowledge Talks event, click here.
Ticket prices are $35. All proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to the Las Nubes Daycare and Afterschool-Learning Centre. The centre supports the education of over 40 children aged between three and 12 in the coffee community of Acatenango. On a daily basis the centre provides much needed education, nutritional meals and a safe and nurturing environment while allowing the parents to continue working or to complete their education.
