We have just announced the winners of the 2022 Coffee Design Awards—the prestigious award for great design in the coffee industry. Find out who the winners were!

For 2022, the Sustainability Award Individual Model Category winner is David Browning.

For 2022, the Sustainability Award Business Model Category winner Caravela Coffee.

Learn all about the 2022 winner of the Sustainability Award in the Project Model Category, the Jimma Agro-Biodiversity Project.

We are pleased to announce that we have received sufficient nominees to fulfil all open coordinator roles to form the SCA Ireland Chapter Committee for the term of 2022-2024.

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced that the 2022 World of Coffee trade show, originally scheduled to take place in Warsaw, will be moving to Milan, Italy. The five World Coffee Championships—Latte Art, Coffee in Good Spirits, Cup Tasters, Cezve/Ibrik, and Roasting—will also be held in Milan, June 23-25.

The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is proud to announce new qualified sponsors for upcoming World Coffee Championships (WCC) seasons–Cafetto is the Qualified Cleaning sponsor, BRITA is the Qualified Water Filtration sponsor, Sage is the Qualified Brewer sponsor, and Breville is the Exclusive Brewer sponsor.

Engineers have relied on water’s capacity to store and transfer energy for centuries: putting it to work driving steam locomotives and turning power plant turbines. Baristas also rely on water as a solvent to extract flavorful compounds when brewing coffee and as hot pressurized steam to quickly heat and texture milk. Water can be dangerous and destructive too. Excessive steam pressure can cause a boiler to burst explosively and freezing water may rupture pipes or espresso machine components. For these reasons, understanding water’s behavior is important for the coffee technician.

The Specialty Coffee Association is proud to present the 2022 Sustainability Award Winners, recognizing excellence in sustainability across the industry.

Through the medium of thermometers, Michael Teahan reminds us to be open to new ideas, even when we’re fully convinced of what we know…

The Specialty Coffee Association stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian coffee community whose homeland has been under attack for the past few days by Russia. We strongly condemn the Russian regime’s invasion of Ukraine and the violence and displacement being inflicted.

“There’s no need to get a degree in engineering to degunk a clogged group or replace a pump, but in both cases you’re working to solve a problem that encompasses pressure and flow, the two bedrock concepts in fluid mechanics.”

Arno Holschuh explores Pressure and Flow.

Ya está abierto el registro para un webinar gratuito en español sobre los avances técnicos en la fermentación de café, organizado en conjunto con The Fermentation Association.

Registration is open for a free Spanish language webinar on the current state of coffee fermentation science, hosted in partnership with The Fermentation Association, on Thursday, March 3.

In 2021, Re:co explored different perspectives on this moment in specialty coffee across multiple sessions, helping leaders come together to address uncertainty and build a stronger future.

SCA CEO Yannis Apostolopoulos welcomes attendees to Re:co’s 2021 program and introduces the first session of four: A Glimpse of the Future.

Dr. Selena Ahmed shares the findings of a recent meta-analysis, the first of its kind, exploring the impact of climate change on coffee quality.

Bill Murray of the US National Coffee Association offers seven signs that point towards our sector’s future post-pandemic.