In this lecture, Samo Smrke explores the topics of roasted coffee freshness as seen by a scientist’s perspective.
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Globalmente conocido por sus enormes establecimientos cafeteros, Brasil ocupa el primer lugar del marcador como el “productor de café más grande del mundo” desde hace 150 años.
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La generación más joven es en este momento la más grande del mundo, pero la edad promedio de los agricultores del café sigue aumentando.
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There’s no doubt that, as 2019 comes to a close, our community’s conversations have been dominated by the Coffee Price Crisis.
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It’s been one year since the SCA set up the Price Crisis Response (PCR) Initiative, a one-year project tasked with producing a report of recommendations on both short- and long-term actions we can take to alleviate the crisis.
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The current price crisis requires us to form a clear understanding of the determinants of profitability, or economic sustainability, for small farmers.
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If you ask most people to describe how black coffee tastes, you will almost invariably hear the word bitter.
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On December 19 at 9am PST/5pm GMT the Specialty Coffee Association hosted a webinar exploring the latest SCA Research the updated Economics of the Coffee Supply Chain: An Illustrative Outlook.
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Known globally for its huge coffee farms, Brazil has been at the top of the leaderboard as the “highest global producer of coffee” for the past 150 years.
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For the past five years, the city of Zürich has organized week-long festivals in inspirational cities around the world.
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If you’ve recently attended any SCA events around Europe, it’s highly likely that you interacted with Jessie May Peters.
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The youngest generation is now the largest generation on earth, but the average age of coffee farmers continues to increase.
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My gastronomic curiosities have frequently led me in the direction of Southeast Asia, yet I never thought the coffee trail would bring me back home to the Philippines.
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Through an engaging panel discussion, learn about the future of coffee production in emerging origins such as Myanmar and Nepal and the role consumers, roasters, and importers can play in building long-term, mutually beneficial relationships across culture and distance.
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The Braun MultiServe Coffee Maker has been awarded the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Certified Home Brewer mark.
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In this month’s SCA Chapter Spotlight, we caught up with Philipp Reichel, Events Coordinator for the SCA Germany Chapter.
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World Coffee Research is working to improve the genetic potential of coffee cup quality. To start this task, you first need to define the meaning of “quality.” WCR believes it is a market-driven definition and organized new protocols to assess quality from the perspective of the coffee industry.
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On Friday, November 22, 2019, the Specialty Coffee Association hosted an SCA Sustainability webinar on the coffee price crisis and the role of baristas, roasters, and technicians from the perspective of the SCA's three guilds: the Barista Guild, the Coffee Roasters Guild, and the Coffee Technicians Guild.
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Nominations are now open for the 2020 SCA Sustainability Awards. The deadline to submit an application is December 20, 2019.
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In today’s lecture, a panel delves into the challenges faced by East African processors of high-quality coffee and shares solutions to these challenges, found by three organizations in Ethiopia, Burundi, and Rwanda.
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