Cup of Excellence Community Cupping

Hosted by Dapper & Wise, Relevant Coffee and Idle Hands Roasting, we'll also be joined by COE's Membership Director, Laurie Linn, who will share a brief slideshow about the non-profit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) as well as the Cup of Excellence competition that ACE facilitates each year. The short presentation will be followed by a fun cupping of a selection of winning COE coffees from various countries this year.

The Cup of Excellence (or COE) program is a prestigious coffee competition and auction that seeks to identify and reward exceptional coffee farmers. It's a global project aimed at ensuring farmers receive higher prices for their high-quality coffee beans. The program has been instrumental in boosting the quality and value of specialty coffee, while also providing a platform for farmers to be recognized and connected with buyers worldwide.

Joey Dolin, Dapper & Wise's director of coffee, travelled to Nicaragua to participate in this year's COE competition as an international judge. In a collaboration with Paul Ahn at Relevant Coffee and Ricky Dyson at Idle Hands Roasting, they purchased one of the winning lots - a natural processed maracaturra produced by Martha Albir in Nueva Segovia. There will be cups of this lot for you to slurp during the event!

Next month we'll be launching a DW x RLVT x IH collab box featuring each of our roasts of this beautiful maracaturra lot.

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