Specialty Coffee Association – Irish Chapter
News, events and members updates for the Irish Chapter of the SCA
Registration for the Brewers Cup competition will open next Monday 19th January 2016 at 10:00.
It will be held on Wednesday 17th February 2016 at Food and Bev Live in Citywest.
There will a maximum of 14 competitors.
Only the Open Service round will be run.
Entry fee will be €80.
Hi folks,
Please see below the timetable for the IBC 2016 competition.
There is also a PDF version of the timetable available here:
IBC Competitors timetable IBC Finals 2016.
Best of luck to you all.
Hi folks,
The IBC timetable is here and can viewed as a PDF here: Competitors timetable IBC 2016 or as an image below.
Irish Barista Championship Semi-finals
7th & 8th November 2015 at Java Republic.
Best of luck to you all.
SCAE Ireland will be holding our Annual AGM on Thursday 25th June at 10.30am in the Morrison Hotel, Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin 1.
All members are welcome to attend. We would be grateful if you could R.S.V.P. so we can have some idea of numbers and space required.
Please see the agenda below.
1. Review of 2014 AGM Minutes and matters arising.
2. National Coordinator Report
3. Financial Report
4. Education Report
5. Competitions Report
6. Communications Report
7. Judges Committee Report
8. Election of Officers
8. WOC Dublin 2016/Dublin Coffee Festival Update
9. A.O.B.
SCAE Ireland will be holding our Annual AGM on Thursday 25th June at 10am in the Fitzwilliam Hotel St Stephens Green, Dublin 2.
All members are welcome to attend. We would be grateful if you could R.S.V.P. so we can have some idea of numbers and space required.
Please see the agenda below.
1. Review of 2014 AGM Minutes and matters arising.
2. National Coordinator Report
3. Financial Report
4. Education Report
5. Competitions Report
6. Communications Report
7. Judges Committee Report
8. Election of Officers
8. WOC Dublin 2016/Dublin Coffee Festival Update
9. A.O.B.
Calling all Hotels, Restaurants, Pubs & Cafés…… We are delighted to announce that there are still limited places available for the World of Coffee Dublin Ambassadors’ Club Programme. The initiative launch event is taking place this Thursday 23rd of April 2015 in the Fitzwilliam Hotel, Stephen’s Green and applications will be taken online up until Wednesday evening and in person until Thursday morning. All successful applicants must be available to attend the launch event.
Apply now: https://eventhaus.formstack.com/forms/wocambassador16
WORLD OF COFFEE, Europe’s biggest and most exciting coffee event, is coming to Dublin in June 2016 and will attract up to 10,000 coffee professionals from over 100 countries around the world to the city for a four-day celebration of coffee.
The show, which is organised by Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), will include the prestigious World Barista Championship 2016 along with a 10,000sq.ft exhibition featuring the international coffee community’s top suppliers, plus conferences, seminars, educational programmes and fringe events.
In preparation for the event at the RDS, Dublin on 22-25 June 2016, SCAE Ireland is launching an innovative new programme to shine a spotlight on Dublin’s best coffee providers. The new World of Coffee Ambassadors’ Club will feature the top 100 cafés, restaurants, hotels and bars serving coffee in the capital, and support them through a range of training and marketing initiatives.
Become a World of Coffee Ambassador
With the support of DublinTown, SCAE Ireland is calling on hospitality operators across Dublin to apply to become a World of Coffee Ambassador and help promote coffee excellence in the city.
Successful applicants will be invited to attend a conference on 24 March 2015 and will receive two off-site training days, a one-to-one on-site training session plus three on-site audits completed by an independent auditor. Training packs will also be provided to help educate additional team members in participating outlets.
Introducing Your Business to the World
The 100 businesses taking part in the programme will be promoted in a World of Coffee 2016 booklet and mobile app which will showcase the city’s best coffee locations. The booklet will be distributed to all visitors at the show and also circulated nationwide through media partners.
Additional World of Coffee Ambassadors’ Club benefits include free SCAE membership, discounted SCAE Coffee Diploma System (CDS) courses and free tickets to the Nordic World of Coffee 2015 which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden this 16-18 June.
Open for Entry
Cafés, restaurants, hotels and bars can apply to join the World of Coffee Ambassadors’ Club at www.worldofcoffee-dublin.com and www.scae.ie from 9am on Friday, 27 February 2015.
The Ambassadors’ Club will comprise 29 cafés, 41 restaurants, 23 pubs and seven hotels and business owners may enter one outlet per category. Please note, membership is limited to 100 participants and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis so early entry is advised.
For further details about the World of Coffee Ambassadors’ Club and World of Coffee Dublin 2016 please visit www.worldofcoffee-dublin.com or www.scae.ie.
Sign up to be an ambassador here: https://eventhaus.formstack.com/forms/wocambassador16
SCAE is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural AST Live! event which will take place in Dublin in March. The event will bring together Authorised SCAE Trainers (ASTs) from all over Europe to network and share their ideas, as well as hear from some of the industry’s most influential minds.
Run over an intensive two day programme of seminars and workshops, SCAE now invites suppliers to submit premium partnership bids which will allow successful partners the opportunity to have their equipment and services used at this inaugural event, as well as benefiting from the pre and post show branding and promotion associated with this exciting new event.
Premium partners are sought in the following areas (please check the minimum specifications and requirements):
To apply to become a premium partner at AST Live!, please read the terms and conditions in full (download here) and submit a full specification of your offering, along with a written agreement detailing the following terms:
Please submit all applications to to Garret Buckley, Event Manager for SCAE (garret.buckley@eventhaus.ie) by no later than 17:00 on 23 January 2015. All applications will then be reviewed and successful partners will be notified within 7 days.
For more information about the event please visit http://www.ast-live.com