Twenty-five winning lots fetched an average price of $10.89 per pound, a new record for the competition in Nicaragua. BY CHRIS RYAN BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Cover photo courtesy of Susie Spindler / Alliance for Coffee Excellence […]
Darrin Daniel unanimously voted in as head of the Alliance for Coffee Excellence. Darrin Daniel, formerly of Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Allegro Coffee, has just been named the Executive Director of the Alliance for Coffee […]
ACE executive director Debbie Hill resigns, Susie Spindler returns On Wednesday, Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) Chairperson, Geoff Watts, announced that current executive director Debbie Hill has resigned. Susie Spindler ”who worked for ACE as […]
History was made in Brazil recently when for the first time ever, a woman won the country’s first place ribbon in the Cup of Excellence competition. Cinthia Dias Villela from Nossa Senhora Aparecida of the […]
Great news from the Alliance for Coffee Excellence and the Brazil Specialty Coffee Association: this year’s Cup of Excellence (COE) Early Harvest live auction raised more than $516,000 for the country’s COE-winning farmers ”that’s an […]
The Alliance for Coffee Excellence has new digs: Cup of Excellence now has offices ”and a tasting room ”in Portland, Oregon. The move allows the organization to have more outreach too a larger coffee community […]
Last Thursday marked the first of the Central American Cup of Excellence auctions of the year, with Honduras up to bat. Twenty-two farmers who had entered this year’s competition gathered together at the Instituto Hondureño […]
Sometimes it seems the Cup of Excellence program has always been around. But then I realize that it seems that way because the program has been so successful. Established by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence […]
The second Rwanda Cup of Excellence competition brought 26 international cuppers to the small town of Rwamagana to judge the final phase of the world’s most stringent coffee competition. Cupping at the new Kayonza […]
I’m finally climbing out from under the mountain of work that awaited me back here at Barista Mag’s headquarters, after I left for a week to attend the Nicaragua Cup of Excellence (CoE). But I’d […]
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