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The cupping event tasting the coffees from Indonesia sourced directly. Two farms and one collect were tasted (see details below). One had some Kopi Luwak (the real stuff that is hand collected from the plantations, not the stuff that has flooded the market that is from caged animals). There was fully washed, semi washed and…

Ben and Kristy Carlson from the Long Mile Project in Burundi are coming to South Africa to share their experience and knowledge. The main sponsor behind this event is the Vineyard Hotel with additional time and costs paid by Ben and Kristy themselves, Quaffee, Specialty Coffee Exchange and Urban Grind Roasters. There will be two…

On the evening of July 20th a group of South African Coffee Roasters met in two different South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. At these meetings the same 5 roasts we cupped and tasted. It was the roasters mission to identify which of the first three were underdeveloped, balanced and overdeveloped coffee roasts.…

Are you interested in tasting the most common defects introduced during roasting? Well Philip from Run – Rabbit – Run suggested this as a topic (thanks we love suggestions) and we took up the mantle. So on the 20 July we invite you all to an event in Jozi and Cape Town (sorry Durban we…

Water and coffee. We know the water we use makes a difference to the coffee. So our next event will explore these differences. We are looking for at least four people to bring water and we will taste 2 coffees each with the water that is brought. Want to donate coffee or bring water? How…

Dave Donde mentioned the London Coffee Festival at one of the meetings early last year. I thought it was a great idea and after dropping Dave an email last week to ask if it was okay for me to examine the complications of organizing the event in Cape Town, here is some feedback. The…

EventS Announcement Joanne Berry from Nordic Approach will be in South Africa in December and is able to allocate some of her time to meet roasters in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Gauteng/Jhb Event Cape Town Event Date: 9 December 2015 Date: 10 December 2015 read more / rsvp here… read more / rsvp here…