Category: Championships and Competitions

Las Lajas

the perfect cup >> the perfect selection

…unten findest Du den Beitrag auf Deutsch It just tastes wonderful – fruity, a balanced sweetness and a strong body. Just a dream of a coffee. Yes, the boys know how do roast. But there, in the end, there is something. Something that suddenly doesn’t fit at all. A taste somewhere between hay, cardboard and […]

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World Cup Tasters Championship 2017 in Budapest

The Pirates @ World Cup Tasters Championship 2017 in Budapest

Hey! It’s Jess and I am going to tell you a little bit about my experience entering and winning the Cup Taster’s competition last January at the Vienna Coffee Festival. Cup Taster’s Competition? There is such a thing? How does that work? How can you win a competition of tasting coffee? A Cup Taster’s Championship […]

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selecting coffee in Yirgajeffe, Ethiopia

Selecting of defected coffee beans?

Why should we select defects from green or roasted coffee beans? Good question! Yesterday I had a short visit from Thomas, a coffee farmer in Peru, (Tropical Mountains) at our roastery on Spitalgasse. He arrived in the moment that I was selecting defects from a batch of freshly roasted coffee beans. He looked surprised and […]

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