As of January 2017, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), first established in 1982, and the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), established in 1998, became one organization, following members’ vote last year to merge the associations. The unified organization, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), has launched a website to house information around key […]
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Members of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) have voted in favour of unifying with the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE). 56 per cent of members of the SCAA voted, and of those voting 62 per cent voted in favour of unification. In July 2016, members of the SCAE also voted in favour
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Members of the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of unification with Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). At an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 23 May 2016 in London, SCAE President, Paul Stack, announced that a total of 51 per cent of SCAE members cast their vote on the
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A city in the Yunnan Province found in the southwest of China, called Pu’er, has prospered into a global golden growing belt for Arabica coffee. It has recently been gaining global acknowledgement and is now broadly known as the “heaven of Arabica”. Pu’er only began planting coffee on a large scale in 1988, even though
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Hernando Meko Gutiérrez Díaz comes from an old family of coffee farmers. They have just opened a roastery in Pittsburgh.
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Honduras announces that will hold its First Global Auction of Specialty Coffees: DO Marcala 2020.
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The Peak Water filter is made for coffee lovers and claims it can dramatically change the taste of your home brew. To find out if those claims are justified, we bought one and after one month, this is our review
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Arabica and Robusta are terms referring to the “species” from which the coffee belongs. The coffee plant is a shrub that belongs to the family of Rubiaceae, genus Coffea. Some dozens of species of the genus Coffea are known, but only two are significant in economic terms: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora (commonly known as Robusta).
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The main difference between a Long Black Coffee and an Americano in that the espresso shot is added after the water, unlike an Americano where the shot is added first. There is a reason for doing this, and a few other differences which we explain in this article.
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Meinl’s tenure as President officially started on 1 January, replacing her predecessor Heather Perry who acted as President for 2019. The SCA is a global membership-based non-profit organization with offices based in the UK and the US. Its purpose is to provide a voice and substance to the opportunities for specialty coffee worldwide while increasing
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