caféeuropa THE VOICE OF THE SPECIALITY COFFEE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPE SUMMER 2015 Go Gothenburg! the Nordic World of Coffee ESSENTIAL GUIDE Trends & Innovation Championships & Education AT EUROPE’S GREATEST COFFEE EVENT ALSO FEATURING: Celebrating 60 Our 60th Issue - New Look, ISSUE 60 More Great Features ISSUE 60 ECUADOR GUIDE + SINGLE CUP TRENDS + SENSORY PERFECTION + JOHAN DAMGAARD Untitled-12 1 5-05-2015 12:40:37 Inside ISSUE 60 | SUMMER 2O15 04 Welcome David Veal predicts that the future will start in Gothenburg 06 Community Meet Team SCAE 10 Anniversary Café Europa celebrates 60 issues 12 Research Can temperature influence sensory perception? Ida Steen investigates 25 14 Sustainability Pam Kahl explains how healthy women are key to healthy harvests 16 Product News Hot products from SCAE members 18 BGE Isa Verschraegen brings us up to date on the latest initiatives at the Barista Guild of Europe 20 Education Susan Hollins reports from AST LIVE! 20 24 Roaster Johan Damgaard shares Johan & Nyström’s secrets for success 28 Events Plan your visit to the Nordic World of Coffee 36 Cupper’s Guide Ecuador is embracing speciality coffee, writes Gonzalo Romero 46 Advice Fritz Storm visited Dublin to 46 28 help local operators prepare for World of Coffee 2016 50 Trends Edouard Thomas charts the latest trends in single serve coffee 54 Field Trip Colin Smith reports from SCAE’s field trip to Honduras 58 Membership Be part of something special – join the SCAE community 62 Q&A We bid adieu to Café Europa’s founding editor, Charles Prager 50 54 CAFÉ EUROPA | SUMMER 2015 | 3 WELCOME The Future Starts in Gothenburg David Veal content. As Café Europa is a membership magazine we will always need your contribution, however great or small. This is actually the 60th issue of Café Europa and we are having a small celebration of that milestone by sharing some of the content of issue number one, published in September 1998. How some things have changed! Look at the piece on the UK coffee bar market in 1998 and try and spot the missing name. ca THE VOICE OF THEfé SPE europa CIALITY COFFEE ASSOCIA TION OF EUROPE SUMMER 2015 Over 5,000 visitors are expected at the Nordic World of Coffee in the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Gothenburg this 16-18 June Go Gothenburg! Time seems to move so quickly Gothenburg and educate and enthuse the Nordic World of Coffee nowadays. It only seems like five minutes them about improving their coffee ESSENTIAL GUIDE have passed since we were in Rimini and offering. We are working in conjuction now Gothenburg is almost upon us. with Worldchefs, the World Association of Many people often say to me that Chefs Societies, and activities will include there is no quiet month in coffee now – training, cupping, seminars, competitions every one is busy – and that is true. It is and presentations. Trends & Innovation Championships & Education AT testament to the great work that everyone We will have more producing countries EUROPE’S GREATEST COFFEE EVENT in our worldwide coffee community is than ever before, a Taste of West Sweden ALSO FEATURING: undertaking to promote and spread the pavilion to widen interest for visitors word about better quality coffee. and, as always, some great social events Celebrating 60 Our 60th Issue - New Look, More Great Features ISSUE 60 ECUADOR GUIDE + SINGLE CUP TRENDS ISSUE 60 This summer’s event will include over 150 exhibitors as well as + SENSORY PERFECTION + JOHAN DAMGAARD educational workshops and seminars, cupping of great coffees on stands and in the dedicated cupping rooms and, of course, Café Europa has undergone a makeover to celebrate its 60th issue five competitions to crown five new world champions. Café Europa was edited from the start by Charles Prager, who retired last year as Editor and this year as Advertising Sales Of course, World of Coffee in throughout the week culminating in a Executive. Charles is one of the unsung Gothenburg will continue to promote fantastic Midsummer Party, a very Swedish heroes of SCAE. A founder member as quality coffee in all of the usual ways. tradition, on Friday, 19 June. So once again, well as Café Europa Editor, he is full of This summer’s event will include over 150 there is something for everyone. Make sure passion and knowledge about speciality exhibitors as well as educational workshops you join us for midsummer in Sweden. coffee. Charles, thanks for all you have and seminars, cupping of great coffees on done. We salute you. stands and in the dedicated cupping rooms New Look Sometimes we have to look back to see and, of course, five competitions to crown You may have noticed a change of style how far we’ve come and 1998 to 2015 has five new World Champions. and format for this issue of Café Europa. been some journey. All of the successes This year we have some new initiatives Our marketing team have been working at SCAE and within our larger speciality to create extra interest, including Re:co, for some time on this and the result is a coffee community have set us up for the a new symposium event featuring world new style and better content. We’ve also future. That future starts in Gothenburg class presenters covering some really taken the decision to go back to just one with so many exciting things happening. interesting and challenging topics. Based language, knowing and understanding that on the successful SCAA Symposium some of our members will be disappointed See you there. model, this event is run for us by our by that. Unfortunately, the cost of David Veal daughter company, World Coffee Events. translation, packaging and postage is now Also new for World of Coffee 2015 prohibitive and making this move means Executive Director are various initiatives to attract chefs to that we will be able to include much more Speciality Coffee Association of Europe 4 | SUMMER 2015 | CAFÉ EUROPA E REAL TASTE OF COFFEE! FOR TH Come see us at the World Coffee Events in Gothenburg and taste perfect coffee from the only ECBC approved single cup brewer! www.technivorm.com CAFÉ EUROPA | SUMMER 2015 | 5 SCAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SCAE EXECUTIVE TEAM President David Veal, Executive Director Cosimo Libardo (Italy), Nuova Simonelli Membership Team Jayne Richards, Membership Manager Past President Jackie Malone, Chapter Coordinator Drewry Pearson (Ireland), Marco Beverage Systems Alison Lynn, Membership Advisor Leanne Celentano, Membership Coordinator Lewis Young, Data Analyst First Vice President Education Team Paul Stack (Ireland), Marco Beverage Systems Susan Hollins, Education Manager Annemarie Tiemes, Education Field Manager Kim Staalman, Education Field Coordinator Second Vice President Aidan Jones, Education Administrator Yannis Apostolopoulos (Greece), W.S. Karoulias Kay Bennett, Education Administrator Alex Morrell, Education Administrator Executive Director Events Team David Veal (UK), SCAE Garret Buckley, Events Manager Jens Henrik Thomsen, Sponsorship Coordinator Marketing Team Nils Erichsen (Germany), Ube Erichsen Beteiliungs James Humpoletz, Marketing Manager Andra Vlaicu, Marketing Assistant Operations Team Heinz Trachsel (Switzerland) David Hewitt, Operations Manager Debbie Baigent, Senior Accounts Clerk Ellen Rogers, Accounts Clerk Caroline Newman, Accounts Clerk Luigi Morello (Italy), La Cimbali SCAE COMMITTEES Membership Committee Ludovic Maillard (France), Maison Jobin Yannis Apostolopoulos, Chair Heinz Trachsel, Vice Chair Luigi Morello Tomasz Obracaj Johan Damgaard (Sweden), Johan & Nyström Andrew Tolley Dale Harris Isa Verschraegen David Veal Alberto Polojac (Italy), Imperator Jayne Richards Sonja Grant Tibor Hajcsunk Education Committee Christina Meinl (Austria), Julius Meinl Ludovic Maillard, Chair Paul Stack Paul Meikle-Janney Sonja Björk Grant Frank Neuhausen (Germany), BWT water+more David Locker Edouard Thomas John Thompson David Veal Chahan Yeretzian (Switzerland), University of Zurich Susan Hollins Annemarie Tiemes Events Committee Patrizia Cecchi (Italy), Rimini Fiera Patrizia Cecchi, Chair Willem Husiman Grace O’Shaughnessy Anke Erichsen James Shepherd (UK/Ireland), Beyond the Bean Brita Folmer David Veal Garret Buckley Dale Harris (UK), Has Bean 6 | SUMMER 2015 | CAFÉ EUROPA SCAE COMMUNITY Marketing Committee World Coffee Events NORWAY Johan Damgaard, Chair (Jointly Owned By SCAE/SCAA) Storm Xaron C Lunde, e: [email protected] Christina Meinl Chair - Mike Yung Dale Harris SCAE Director - David Veal PORTUGAL Maurizio Giuli SCAA Director - Ric Reinhart TBA Jörg Krahl Managing Director - Cindy Ludviksen POLAND David Veal Treasurer - Drewry Pearson Tom Obracaj, James Humpoletz e: [email protected] NATIONAL COORDINATORS Audit Committee ROMANIA Nils Erichsen, Chair EUROPEAN CHAPTERS Silvia Constantin, Mark Rose AUSTRIA e: [email protected] David Veal Günter Stölner, RUSSIA David Hewitt e: [email protected] Andrey Elson, International Development Committee BELGIUM e: [email protected] Alberto Polojac, Chair Kathleen Serdons, SPAIN Mick Wheeler e: [email protected] Elisabet Sereno, Max Fabian e: [email protected] BULGARIA Colin Smith Nikolay Litov, SWEDEN Angel Mario Martinez Garcia e: [email protected] Erik Rosendahl Inyoung Kim (Anna) e: [email protected] David Veal CZECH REPUBLIC Penny Hayward Stepan Neubauer, SWITZERLAND e: [email protected] Marc Käppeli, Research Committee e: [email protected] Chehan Yeretzian, Chair DENMARK TURKEY Morten Munchow, Vice Chair Lene Hyldahl, Aysin Aydogdu, Frank Neuhausen [email protected] e: [email protected] Lauro Fioretti FINLAND UNITED KINGDOM