Quick reminder, closing date for the Barista and CupTasters competitions is 20-01-17. There are a few places still left. Please use our hashtag #scaecomp17 when searching for info on twitter etc..
Open Members Meeting 25th Jan
SCAE Ireland will hold an Open Meeting that all members are welcome to attend on Wednesday 25th January at 2pm in First Draft Coffee (Temple Bar, Dublin 2). At this we will review our plans for SCAE Ireland and present our thoughts about going forward through 2017 and 2018. It is an opportunity for members to give feedback and contribute in determining the direction SCAE Ireland will take over the next two years.
All are welcome
Ambassadors Club – The Final List of Club Members Just Announced!
With support from Dublin Town, the Ambassador’s Club was created with the vision of establishing Dublin as one of the world’s greatest coffee destinations in time for the World of Coffee event and following an intensive training programme which included off-site training days, a one-to-one on-site training session along with three on-site audits completed by a team of auditors, the 30 BEST cafes, restaurants, hotels and bars serving speciality coffee in Dublin have been chosen!
The standard of entrants proved extremely high and the eagerly anticipated finalists have been announced. They are:
| Keoghs Cafe TWOBEANS Speciality Coffee Bar River Café Fallon & Byrne Irish Whiskey Museum O’Connells in Donnybrook O’Callaghan Stephens Green Hotel Oxmantown Coffeeangel Chapter One Café Tri Via Fresca Restaurant (Formerly known as Pasta Fresca) KC Peaches Bewleys Kaph
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All members meeting – April 28th – 3FE
You are invited to attend an open SCAE meeting next Thursday 28th April at 4pm in 3fe. This is an important meeting to discuss significant issues in SCAE and decisions we have to make in the very near future. The World of Coffee is now only 9 weeks away and promises to be a fantastic and challenging event. We also have to consider the proposal to merge SCAE with SCAA which will create one worldwide coffee community.
AGENDA
- World of Coffee Update Garret Buckley Eventhaus
- Ambassador Club Paul Stack President SCAE
- Unification Paul Stack President SCAE
World of Coffee Dublin 2016
The World of Coffee is coming to Dublin and bringing the World Barista Championship with it!
Over 10,000 visitors from more than 100 countries across the globe are expected to fly into Dublin to see:
- THE WORLD BARISTA CHAMPIONSHIP
- THE WORLD BREWERS CUP
- WORLD OF COFFEE’S 10,000 SQ.M. EXHIBITION
- RE:CO SYMPOSIUM
- EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
- SCAE EXCELLENCE AWARDS, NEW PRODUCT OF THE SHOW AWARDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
- EXCLUSIVE CUPPINGS
- NETWORKING EVENTS AND PARTIES
- PLUS MUCH, MUCH MORE…
If you’d like to visit you can register on the website or visit www.scae.com for more information.
You can download the brochure here: WOC Brochure and a nice postcard that you can see below here: Postcard
As the event draws nearer we’ll post more information and images as we get them.
Espresso Machine Sponsorship 2015-2017
SCAE Ireland would like to announce that La Marzocco will be the espresso machine sponsor for 2015, 2016 and 2017 for the Irish Barista Championships and Latte Art competitions.
SCAE Ireland would like to thank CMA Astoria for their support and generosity over the last number of years. CMA Astoria throughout their sponsorship period have been a tremendous partner to work with and we wish them every success for the future. In particular we would like to thank Jason Jones and Flavio Urizzi for their commitment and dedication to the Chapter.
COMPETITION SCHEDULES 2015
Please right click on each of the tables and download to your desktop to view or use the zoom function in your browser. in some browsers simply clicking on the image will be enough to see the full size image.
Thank you to all
So the dust has finally settled and everything is back to normal after the hectic weekend that was the IBC & Latte art competitions.
Competitiors one and all; what can we do but bow to your excellent performance.
Judges for you its hats off for such a professional performance.
Volunteers each and every one of you are extraordinary people.
MC’s you are all talkers (enough said).
Tech support = you rock.
And finally thank you to Java Republic for allowing us to come into your lives and wreck your heads.
SCAE Ireland is humbled by you all and grateful for everything that was achieved last weekend.
For the finalists we will see you in February 2014 for more stressful fun times.
Please everyone keep in touch. Next years IBC & Latte art & more competitions will take place in September 2014 at the upcoming Dublin coffee & tea festival (details soon to be announced).
See you all very soon
Competitions update
Well done to all after a fantastic weekend of ICB & Latte Art semi-finals.
THose who got through the the finals which will be held in Citywest Hotel in February 2014 at Food & Bev are:
Avonmore Irish Barista Competition
Bruno Ferreira Silva
Mark Ashbridge
Niall Wynn
Pete Williams
Tom Stafford
Vinicius Arruda
Avonmore Irish Latte Art Competition
Khedun Viswarnath
Pedro Luiz M Amaral
Ravi Soniah
Renata Khedun
Renata Malyszko
Seivijus Matiejunas