Coffee News

Regional Championships

ASCA opens applications to host Regional Championships

The Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) has opened applications for venues interested in and capable of hosting its Regional Championships for the 2020 competition season. ASCA is currently seeking tenders from venues located in all states and territories. There are four regional events held each year:
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Sasa Sestic

Sasa Sestic to present at Specialty Coffee Expo 2019

Ona Coffee and Project Origin Founder Sasa Sestic will speak on processing innovations at the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA)’s 2019 Specialty Coffee Expo on 13 April in Boston, United States. In Coffee Processing and the Future of Specialty: How Innovations in Processing Can Change Perceptions of Specialty Coffee, the 2015 World Barista Champion will present his findings from years of experimental planning and processing on coffee farms.
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Australian Barista Census

Australian Barista Census reveals what keeps baristas up at night

Almond Breeze Barista Blend and BaristasforBaristas.com have released their first Australian Barista Census (ABC), an in-depth study of what worries baristas and how Australia’s coffee scene is setting the pace globally. Eighty-two per cent of Australian baristas work in an independent café. Almond Breeze says this reflects Australian’s coffee cultural difference to the United States, where 60 per cent of consumers visit a branded coffee shop at least once a month. Perhaps due to cultural divide, 84 per cent of baristas surveyed said they’d rather work in Australia than anywhere else in the world.
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coffee prices

International coffee prices slide in February

According to the International Coffee Organization (ICO) February 2019 market report, the ICO composite indicator fell by 0.9 per cent to 100.67 US cents per pound, similar to levels in December 2018. This is slightly higher than the lowest monthly average of 100.61 US cents per pound reached in coffee year 2018/19 for December 2018. However, it is 27.5 per cent below the 10-year average of 138.84 US cents per pound.
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Minas Hill

Minas Hill to host Brazilian coffee cuppings

On 7 March, Minas Hill Coffee will host a cupping session on the coffee trader’s range of Brazilian coffee at its Coburg North, VIctoria warehouse from 5:30pm. The coffee trader will display coffees from its farming partners including Ismael Adrade, Pedro Gabarra, Gabriel Oliveira, Flowers in Action, Bahia Estate, Bela Epoca, and an assortment of micro-lots.
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Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting

Victorian town’s water named second best in world

Hamilton in Victoria has placed second in the 2019 Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting municipal water category. The Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting wad held on 23 February, and judged water from around the world in categories also including bottled, sparkling, and purified drinking water.
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New Zealand Cup Tasters Championship

NZSCA announces 2019 Latte Art and Cup Tasters Championships

The New Zealand Specialty Coffee Association (NZSCA) has announced it will hold the 2019 New Zealand Cup Tasters and Latte Art Championships on 3 May and 5 May, respectively. The 2019 New Zealand Cup Tasters Championship will be held at Ozone Coffee Roasters on 18 Westmoreland Street West, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
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My Room

My Room named official charity partner of Formula 1 Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation has announced children’s cancer charity My Room as the Official Charity Partner of the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix 2019. My Room is a volunteer-led organisation dedicated to raising funds to achieve a 100 per cent cure rate for all childhood cancers.
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