Category: Events

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):

• Espresso machine premium partner – Espresso machine x2 – 2 group (minimum) with steam wands
• Roasting machine partner – electric roaster x3 (500g – 12kg)
• Water premium partner – filtered water
• TDS = 75-250 (ideal is 75 – 120) pH = 6.8 – 7.5 Hardness = 1-5 grains (17-85mg/l)
• Grinder premium partner – Large lab quality –  Guatemalan x2, Tanzania EK 43 x2
• Coffee partner – for Barista skills – espresso blends with full knowledge of variety, origin, process and roast style
• Range of single estate coffees which highlight differences in species, origin, process and roast style
• Cups (cupping bowls, espresso and cappuccino cups): 100 of each

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:

• Your company will supply the equipment as specified.
• Your company will install the equipment as required
• Your company agree to pay a one-off premium partnership fee of €3000.00

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

Two announcements in a day. Things are getting crazy around here.

Here are the details for the Irish cupping competition.

Thursday 19^th February 2015 @ Catex RDS

Times to be confirmed closer to the date

Closing date for applications is Friday 30^th January 2015 @17:00

Entry fee – SCAE Member €20, SCAE Non Member €40

Maximum entries 30 people

Please e-mail DMarshall@bewleys.ie to enter and for further details.

Well done to everyone who took part in this years Championships. It has been a great year of competition so far and it will reach it’s crescendo in 2015. Special thanks to everyone who helped make the competitions as fantastic as they were.

Brewers Cup Competition Winner 2014 – Brian O’Keeffe

 

Home Barista Competition Winner 2014 – Edgars Kazlausks

 

Irish Barista semi-finalists:

Bruno Ferreira Silva

Khedun Viswarnath

Mark Ashbridge

Natalia Piotrowska

Vinicius Arruda

Wojciech Tysler

 

Latte Art semi-finalists:

Dave Regan

Darina Homolova

Dumitru Postovan

Luis Alvarez

Magdalena Niedbalka

Renata Khedun

Dublin Tea and Coffee Festival needs volunteers for competitions. It’s a great chance to get involved with SCAE Ireland and meet everyone involved in the show. See http://www.dublincoffeefestival.com/volunteer.html for more details.

SCAE Ireland will be holding our Annual AGM on Thursday 19th 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 2013 AGM Minutes and matters arising.

2. Chairman Report

3. Financial Report

4. Education Report

5. Competitions Report

6. Judges Committee Report

7. Election of Officers

8. Dublin Coffee Festival Update

9. A.O.B.

Vinicius Arruda

Vinicius Arruda is a well known and respected name within the Irish barista community.
Vini has been involved with the Speciality Coffee Assocation of Europe (SCAE) for a number of years, being one of the first to complete the Diploma in Coffee in 2012 and has held, since last year, the chair of SCAE Ireland Education committee.
Vini then went on to become an SCAE Authorised Trainer (AST) and in 2013 completed the Coffee Quality Institute’s Q-grader program – a highly specialised course in refined sensory skills. In doing so he became the first and only Q Grader in Ireland.
Vini is the head barista trainer for speciality coffee roaster Badger & Dodo Boutique Coffee Roasters.
Vini has also been serving coffee as head barista for Cabinteely’s ubercool Urbun cafe for many years now.

Anita Nagy-Bertok

Anita has been an Area Trainer for Matthew Algie since 2007. In addition to running coffee schools and customer training programmes in Ireland, Anita coaches staff and customers for barista competitions. She runs tasting and cupping sessions daily as part of her job. Anita is a certified AST (Authorised SCAE Trainer) and runs SCAE Barista and Brewing courses across the UK & Ireland  for SCAE. Anita is a certified World Brewers Cup Sensory Judge, World Barista Championship Sensory Judge and World Latte Art Visual Judge. Anita already has huge experience judging internationally. She has been the head Judge for the Hungary and Turkish Barista Championships and has organised the Irish Judges workshops. She was this years head Judge at the Irish Barista Championships and last years head Judge at the Irish Brewers cup.

Estelle MacGilp

Estelle MacGilp is currently the Green Coffee Buyer at Matthew Algie, an independent coffee roaster based in Glasgow. Prior to that, Estelle was the Coffee Buyer at another large coffee roaster based in Kent. Through these roles she now has over 14 years cupping experience, cupping a whole range of coffees from more mainstream commercial coffees right through to speciality coffees from all over the world on a daily basis. She also has extensive coffee blending experience and is often involved in training events on cupping, coffee tasting and coffee knowledge. She has travelled to both Ethiopia and Indonesia on coffee sourcing trips meeting her coffee partners on their home ground.

The Irish Brewers Cup will take place on Friday the 9th of May. We now know that it will be kindly hosted by Matthew Algie. The start time will be 2pm and there is one round. First 8 to register get in (we have 5 confirmed thus far) and it is €25 to enter. The winner goes to Rimini for the Worlds.

Address: 26 Great Strand Street Dublin D1, Ground floor.

Oh, one more thing: There is free beer for the first 100….

Update from Anita Bertok on the rules:

There will be only one round and this will be the Open Service round only.

The Brewers Cup will take place on Friday the 9th of May between 2pm and 6pm. It will cost €25 per person to enter and we are only taking the first 8 entries. The venue will be a location in Dublin to be confirmed later this week.

To enter email cathal.burke@marco.ie with your name, address, email and mobile and I will advise you further.