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APRIL 23, 2017 Issue 4 UNITED STATES COFFEE CHAMPIONSHIPS On the Cover BEST NEW PRODUCT NEW SCA SUSTAINABILITY MERCHANDISE AWARD WINNERS IN THE STORE SCA CERTIFIED HOME BREWERS THE MEANING OF COMMUNITY A PUBLICATION OF THE SPECIALTY COFFEE ASSOCIATION SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SUNDAY, APRIL 23 6 Honoring the 2017 Sustainability Award Winners KIM ELENA IONESCU 8am–3pm Registration Open 8–10:30am Exhibit Hall Open to Exhibitors only 10 2017 Best New Product Awards 8am–2pm Pathway Classes 12 SCA Certified Home Brewers: A Commitment to Quality 9:45–10am United States Cup Tasters Championship – Final Round TARA SMITH 10am–2:30pm United States Barista Championship – Final Round 13 Grounds for Health There’s a lot of talk these days about menu transparency, artificial ingredients, JUSTIN MOOL 10am–2:30pm United States Brewers Cup Championship – Final Round “no-no lists” and clean labels. For us at Monin, we had clean labels before “clean label” was even a thing. Our premium products are made with NO 14 What Does Community Mean to You? 10:30am–11:45am Lectures artificial flavors, colors, preservatives or any ingredients we deem unacceptable. Just take a look at the label…we have nothing to hide. 10:30am–4 pm Exhibit Hall Open to Registrants What’s 2–6pm Coffeehouse & Craft Brewery Tour: Fremont/Ballard For over 100 years, Monin has been committed to quality by creating naturally Happening inspired, authentic flavorings made with the highest quality ingredients. Our in the United 3:15–4:15pm United States Coffee Championship Winners Announcement promise to you is that we are also committed to clean. Monin is proud to be the States Coffee leading provider of clean label solutions, offering the widest range of product Championships 4 pm–10pm Exhibitor Move-out and flavor varieties. Area? 8:30pm Barista Guild Party – Everyone Invited, 21 & over Be sure to stop by Booth #2519 to experience new and exciting, clean label flavoring products. We look forward to delivering the best tasting, natural flavors for you, your customers and your business. 2 0 1 7 l e t t Discover the Winners of the a e Best New Product Award S Cheers, STAFF ADVERTISERS BEST NEW n PRODUCT o i t Lily Kubota Ahlstrom a i c o s s e a Executive Editor Bushwick Tea S f e p e cia lt y c of Cropster Susan Gates Bill Lombardo Advertising Sales Curtis CEO, Monin Americas EK/Clever 2017 BEST NEW PRODUCTS Tiffany Howard Host Milano Design HunterLab Danny Pinnell Illy Cafe Digital Edition Monin Rekerdres Insurance Swiss Water Ad DAILY EDITION ONLINE Thanks to our digital edition sponsor: Brazil International Coffee Week Cover photo by Skandia Shafer To read the Daily Edition online, visit: http://bit.ly/Daily-Edition-2017 2 THE DAILY EDITION | SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 There’s a lot of talk these days about menu transparency, artificial ingredients, “no-no lists” and clean labels. For us at Monin, we had clean labels before “clean label” was even a thing. Our premium products are made with NO artificial flavors, colors, preservatives or any ingredients we deem unacceptable. Just take a look at the label…we have nothing to hide. For over 100 years, Monin has been committed to quality by creating naturally inspired, authentic flavorings made with the highest quality ingredients. Our promise to you is that we are also committed to clean. Monin is proud to be the leading provider of clean label solutions, offering the widest range of product and flavor varieties. Be sure to stop by Booth #2519 to experience new and exciting, clean label flavoring products. We look forward to delivering the best tasting, natural flavors for you, your customers and your business. Cheers, Bill Lombardo 2017 BEST NEW PRODUCTS CEO, Monin Americas EXHIBITOR, SPONSOR & INDUSTRY NEWS DELIGHT IN THE BEAUTIFUL TASTE Pop-Up Cafes | SUNDAY FEATURED COFFEE SERVICE OF ILLY Plus, Caffé D’arte will be showcasing a brand-new product – a Nitro-Infused Wood Roasted Cold Brew Coffee in a can! This canned beverage features a true cold brew This year at the SCA’s Global Specialty Cof- coffee, brewed cold for 12 hours, and infused fee Expo, come enjoy an artisan coffee from with nitrogen for a beautiful and tasty cascad- Seattle area roaster Caffé D’arte. With over 30 ing micro-foam, reminiscent of a fi ne stout. years of roasting experience, they are pioneers Caffé D’arte is renowned for seeking out in the craft coffee culture that has defi ned Se- the best green beans, and producing the attle’s vibrant coffee industry. They will be serv- fi nest drip and espresso blends possible. ing up their delicious Italian-inspired blends, To this day, they maintain traditional Italian including their Wood Roasted coffees. methods of roasting select coffees, using la- Caffé D’arte is one of very few roasters that bor-intensive processes that have been all but still uses a wood fi re to roast these special abandoned by most roasters. As a result, the blends. Using a 1949 Balestra Wood Roaster passion that they put into their coffees is ap- that is manually controlled by their master parent with every sip. With all this experience roaster, they are able to achieve a fl avor profi le and insight into the specialty coffee industry, that is unlike any other coffee. With subtle Caffé D’arte delivers superb fresh roasted smoky undertones, and a naturally complex fl a- coffees, along with the best knowledge to vor profi le, the Alder Wood Roast is something inform people about what really makes a great every coffee drinker should experience. And cup of coffee. what better venue to showcase this exquisite example of Italian roasted coffee than at the Open Sunday 8am–4pm, SCA Global Specialty Coffee Expo. located in the Atrium Lobby. Discover the distinctive taste of illy’s unique blend, sourced from the top 1% of Arabica beans grown around the Espresso Parts x Olympia Coffee Roast- ing Pop Up Experience globe. Roasted to perfection Espresso Parts, LLC is a modest in Trieste, Italy and then company with big ambitions! Masters of packaged in our exclusive the specialty coffee universe, we are a pressurized tins that lock in dynamic team with the sole purpose of flavor and enhance aroma. All providing the best customer experience, to deliver a beautiful taste, so period! We specialize in the distribution of all things coffee. Be sure to visit the you can sip something simply Expo Skybridge as we will be partnering extraordinary. with Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. Guests will be able to sample Cold Brew Coffee Sip. Savor. Be Inspired. served over ice straight from Olympia Coffee’s fabled Cold Brew Tricycle! Visitors will also be able to purchase some of the most popular items from our Top Brands, including; Barista Basics, Kalita, Yama Glass, Alto Air, and Kruve, to name a few. Limited supplies on hand so act fast! live Open Sunday 10am–4pm, happilly located on the Skybridge. ILLY® and illy logo are registered trademarks of illycaffè S.p.A. via Flavia 110-34147 Trieste — Italy. 4 THE DAILY EDITION | SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 © 2017 illy caffè North America, Inc. All rights reserved. EXHIBITOR, SPONSOR & INDUSTRY NEWS DELIGHT IN THE BEAUTIFUL TASTE Pop-Up Cafes | SUNDAY FEATURED COFFEE SERVICE OF ILLY Discover the distinctive taste of illy’s unique blend, sourced from the top 1% of Arabica beans grown around the globe. Roasted to perfection in Trieste, Italy and then packaged in our exclusive pressurized tins that lock in flavor and enhance aroma. All to deliver a beautiful taste, so you can sip something simply extraordinary. Sip. Savor. Be Inspired. live happilly ILLY® and illy logo are registered trademarks of illycaffè S.p.A. via Flavia 110-34147 Trieste — Italy. © 2017 illy caffè North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Honoring the 2017 Sustainability Award Winners KIM ELENA IONESCU The year was 2005, Expo was in High School Center with Coffee ing innovative initiatives that have Seattle, and the first sustainability Specialization program. These turned into programs, like Grow award was given by the SCAA to a high school centers are an educa- Ahead and ProClimate. project of Starbucks and Port- tional alternative aimed at creating These award winners were land Roasting named Las Nubes new opportunities for young chosen from among more than Sustainable Coffee. Twelve years adults in rural areas in Guatemala thirty applicants by an awards later, we’re back in Seattle and it’s by focusing on developing skills committee comprised of inter- another especially significant year that will be relevant to jobs in their national volunteers, and winners for the Sustainability Award. In communities, including and es- were recognized and interviewed 2017, the SCA will recognize two pecially in areas related to coffee at the Launch Party and Opening winners: one sustainable project production. Ceremonies on Thursday, April (a category that will be familiar The 2017 Sustainable Business 20th at the Paramount Theater. to those that have attended the Model goes to Progreso Founda- KIM ELENA IONESCU IS Brewers built by the sun. Awards Ceremony in recent years) tion for their work to strengthen THE CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY and one in the new category of producer organizations and other OFFICER OF THE SPECIALTY sustainable business model. social enterprises supporting COFFEE ASSOCIATION. Funcafe will receive the 2017 smallholder farms in eighteen Sustainable Project Award for its countries around the world, includ- EXHIBITOR, SPONSOR & INDUSTRY NEWS Is there a drone in your future? Each year, Rekerdres & Sons your cherry hosts our ‘slip’ of global marine coffee underwriters in an annual ‘confab’.