Reg Barber has been making quality tampers at his workshop near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada for nineteen years. Through his own innovations and listening to barista’s needs he has constantly evolved his tamper designs.
Read More
Roast magazine is a bi-monthly technical trade magazine dedicated to the success and growth of the specialty coffee industry. Roast addresses the art, science and business of coffee roasters by covering the issues most important to them with high quality editorial focused on the technical aspects of coffee.
Read More
*Official Golden Bean cup sponsor A privately owned multinational packaging group, Seda is a global leader in developing effective solutions for a broad range of packaging applications. By combining innovative manufacturing processes with state-of-the-art printing and converting technologies, we create packaging to drive the market and promote the world’s best-known brands.
Read More
Since 1990, Organic Products Trading Company has been working directly with small-scale farmers around the world to source high quality green specialty coffee. Our business is built on long-term relationships with Certified Organic and Fair Trade co-operatives as well as conventional farms that focus on improving their communities, their families, and their environment.
Read More
Torani is an amazing flavor company with a deeply-rooted heritage. Established in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in 1925, Torani has enticed flavor adventurists with its popular syrups and sauces, putting Italian soda on the map and making the world’s first flavored latte. From the start – they have only used the best ingredients like
Read More
Founder, Gold Mountain Coffee Growers, L.L.C. TOPIC: How to source the best washed, honey, natural process, and anaerobic fermentation coffees Ben will explain what it takes to produce award-winning washed, honey, natural process, and anaerobic fermentation coffees. He will explain what to look for when sourcing each processing method, and you will experience the taste of each.
Read MoreCongratulations on your win at this year’s Pentair Everpure Golden Bean North America Coffee Roasters Competition! We know you will be excited to let the world know how fantastic your coffee is so we have the LOW RESOLUTION (300pixel D) Champion sticker and Golden Bean North America Logo artwork available for you to download and
Read More
Head Judge Oceana Coffee & Certified Arabica Q Grader I was born in Sydney in NSW but grew up in Brisbane QLD. I joined the Navy at 16, and then while still young I got out and worked in private industry, starting in Port Macquarie, NSW before returning back to Brisbane, QLD. Moving to the
Read MoreAt Rancilio, we take the science and craft of espresso extraction seriously, and are focused on giving baristas control over important variables that impact the flavor of the shot the most. This is why we have conducted scientific research with the University of Barcelona to test on a molecular level how coffee reacts in an
Read More
Founder, Golden Bean Managing Director, Cafe Culture International Sean started his working life as an Electrical Fitter in the Hunter Valley mining industry before gaining a degree in OHS and Human Resource management. Along with wife Kristine he moved to the America’s, travelling across the country working in hospitality positions, predominantly in hotel management.
Read More
Q – How do you win the Overall Pentair Everpure Golden Bean? A – You must enter a coffee in the Espresso category #1, Milk Based category #2 and for the first time in 2017 Filter category #3. The highest scoring entries you submit from each of these categories will be added together for your
Read More
Café Culture International is proud to present the Pentair® Everpure® Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition & Conference. This annual international event will once again be held in the following locations:
Read MoreFirday, October 14, 2016, East Bay Times newspaper – nice work Pacific Bay Coffee!
Read MoreCongratulations to all who entered this year’s competition. A full list of competition winners can be found at the link below:
Read MoreMobile really is starting to look like a place where you can get a premium cup of Joe: Two different coffee houses have combined to take three awards at this year’s North American Golden Bean Awards. Organizers of the Compak Golden Bean Awards describe it as “the world’s largest coffee roasters competition and conference.” Founded
Read More
Press Release – September 21st Compak Golden Bean North America Conclusion! Coffee vapours drifted over Portland last week as year two of the North American Compak Golden Bean Competition took place. Over 700 coffees were entered and judged from 244 North American Roasters. The Compak Golden Bean is now the largest global coffee roasting competition
Read More
TIP #10 – Read the rules and please do not be shy to ask questions of the organizers. Think outside the square, be creative, well organized and treat this competition competitively if you want to be a winner. That’s tip number 10. Good luck in the competition and keep in mind how valuable attending the
Read More
Click the image to download a printable pdf. Program subject to change without notice.
Read More
TIP #9 – Open your mind to global coffee trends. The Compak Golden Bean is a global competition that automatically sifts through high quality entries in its unique judging process to find the best of the best. What is on trend in our current marketplace is quality of the complete bean to cup process, so
Read More
Navigating Women’s Coffee | Perspectives from Cafe Femenino Open to all Compak attendees interested in this lunchtime session – RSVP required (see below) Lunch Session: Thursday 15th Setpember, 12pm Presenters: Connie Kolosvary, Café Femenino Program Director, OPTCO Katherine Oglietti, General Manger & Coffee Buyer, OPTCO
Read More
TIP #8 – Try and make a big effort to participate as a delegate at a Golden Bean event. You will reap the benefits of learning new skills, networking with fellow roasters and have better insights into industry trends. You will also improve your tasting skills by learning to judge competition coffees. Keep an eye
Read More
We have picked a fun, dress-up ‘Speakeasy’ theme for this year’s Compak Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition awards ceremony. Get your best gangster, show girl or jazz musician outfit out of the attic and dust it off for our big gig at the Melody Ballroom on Friday the 16th.
Read More
TIP #7 – People love winners. Make sure you enter a coffee that you can access for the next 12 months and is the perfect vehicle to market yourself. It’s definitely worth including medals with stickers on your packaging. This competition has followed the successful wine industry awards model with the industry practice being to
Read More
Launching this month, Groundswell Roasters is a Vancouver based social enterprise funding students of their not-for-profit school, Groundswell, through the sale of specialty coffee.
Read More
We just finished our Midwest road trip – aka the Wild West Adventure with my travelling companion and excellent driver Brendo Schack hitting the back roads hard in our rental Dodge Charger. We covered plenty of miles in a week that saw us draw in to the grand city of Minneapolis, a place blessed with
Read More
