The Barista Guild is pleased to invite you to a four-part webinar series taking place this July on the topic of Livelihoods in Coffee.

The Specialty Coffee Association is now accepting nominations for the 2022-2023 SCA Board of Directors. Nominations close on Friday, July 9, and interviews with the Nominating Committee will take place between July and August. The SCA will announce the slate of candidates selected through the interview process by Tuesday, August 31.

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced Green Coffee Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event and resource library dedicated to the buying and selling of green coffee, launching August 25-26, 2021.

The new season kicks off with Episode #19 on Friday, June 25 at 5pm BST.

Ask The Pros, formerly Ask An Expert, is back on screens with live episodes streaming June through August 2021.

FILIP BARTELAK explores the findings of Dr. MACKENZIE BATALI’s recent work on fractionation and sweetness.

The nomination stage is closed and the candidates listed below have accepted their nominations. If you are an SCA member based in Poland, cast your vote for the new National Coordinator for the SCA Poland Chapter now.

Testing for qualified equipment for use in the World Coffee Championships (WCC) has commenced, as part of the SCA Certified Commercial Equipment Program. Equipment submitted to the program will undergo performance testing using a set of standards and evaluation developed by industry experts. This program is the prerequisite to qualified category sponsorships for the World Coffee Championships.

Many simple roaster malfunctions have relatively simple repair pathways open to the well-rounded tech.

When boilers overfill or fail to fill at all, there are a few observations you can make at the outset that will point you in the right direction.

So, you have found a person who thinks being a coffee tech would be an excellent job. Now all you have is to teach them how to troubleshoot!

Join the SCA on Instagram for a live deep dive into the National Coffee Data Trends Specialty Coffee Report. Explore the report with us and ask your questions on Instagram Live on Tuesday, June 8th.

Over the last few years there has been increasing interest in the concepts of a living wage and a living income in coffee. The SCA’s Barista Guild wanted to further the conversation by exploring the perspective of the hourly coffee worker. Explore the results of the exploratory survey and stay tuned for more on the Livelihoods in Coffee series.

Registration is now open for the 2021 Specialty Coffee Expo taking place September 30 - October 3, 2021 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced a secondCoffee Retail Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event for coffee retail businesses.

In April we announced our exciting collaboration with the National Coffee Association (NCA) to support the NCA’s biannual National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report and publish a special report on data relating to specialty coffee. We’re pleased to announce that the report, Specialty Coffee Consumers & Trends, is now available for coffee professionals and businesses to read at no cost.

Updated Rules & Regulations have been announced for the 2021 World Latte Art, World Coffee in Good Spirits, and World Coffee Roasting Championships, scheduled to take place at the Taipei International Coffee Show in November. You can find the rules and scoresheets for each of the competitions linked below, with changes broadly focused on COVID-19 related precautions and updates that were introduced for the other 2021 World Coffee Championships.

The USA Chapter of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA USA Chapter) completed its inaugural lottery election process to elect incoming members of the Chapter Committee.

Watch Yannis Apostolopoulos, CEO of the Specialty Coffee Association, welcome Coffee Retail Summit’s attendees to a program focused on three main topics: Navigating COVID-19, Business of Coffee, and Building Your Brand.

Planning helps entrepreneurs avoid the trap of running businesses that neither make enough money nor let them do what they love.