Detroit Coffee Week 2024

We are so excited to announce the upcoming Detroit Coffee Week, a week-long celebration of specialty coffee. Partnering together with Claudio Martinez from SoFlo Coffee Collective, we’re bringing Detroit a week of coffee events!

Detroit Coffee Week is officailly backed by the US chapter of SCA!
Huge thank you to our sponsors - Planet Oat, Black Rabbit Service Co, Slayer, Barista Magazine, Roast Magazine, Visions, Hario USA, Espresso Parts. Our sponsorships are growing, check back to see who else is backing DCW!

Detroit Coffee Week will take place from July 22-27th, bringing together coffee enthusiasts, local businesses, and coffee professionals to learn together and celebrate coffee in our region.

This week will include:

SCA Classes: Claudio has been kind enough to offer foundational level barista classes completely free of charge. Students will only be responsible for their certification cost. There are only 16 slots avaialble total - 8 on Monday & 8 on Tuesday. Get your tickets quickly before they're gone!

Tech Classes with Black Rabbit: Our lab at DOCR Ferndale will be open for learning with DoubleJ from Black Rabbit Service Co, traveling from Portland, OR. Whether folks have never seen the inside of a machine or are seasoned coffee’s techs, everyone will have an opportunity to learn and play.

Planet Oat Latte Art Class: Learn from the best - a latte art class focusing on how to steam oat milk well and pour with perfection. One of our founding sponsors, Planet Oat, will be supplying their milk for this to get local baristas more familiar with their products.

Importer Cupping: A room filled with importers and roasters sharing their coffee’s together! We look forward to seeing Yellow Rooster Coffee Imports, Artisan Coffee Imports, Cafe Imports, Ally Coffee and List & Biesler. As this has gained a lot of interest, we’ll likely open this up to a few other importers as well.

Latte Art Throwdown at our Detroit Café: A classic and fun way to get folks together from our city and afar, all in a 32 person bracket.

Lectures & Discussion Panels: From industry leaders to folks who are just getting their foot in the door to specialty coffee, we all have something to learn. Details for lectures are in the tickets!

Barista Field Day: Our friends at Dozer Coffee, in centrally located Ann Arbor, are opening up their massive warehouse and bar for an evening of field day games, conversation and fun! Cornhole, darts, ping pong, drinks and just enjoying time together with folks in our industry.

Signature Drink Competition: Creative coffee minds coming together to create a signature drink highlighting coffee they're excited to serve. Winner will win a trip to origin and be going to Costa Rica!

Networking: We are expecting folks from near and far — not just Detroit! Our hope is to allow for as many connections with as many different specialty coffee folks as possible.
All tickets for each day are listed and headlined and described with location, please grab a ticket so we know how many folks to expect in each class/event!

Our goal is to make this week as accessible as possible and allow for learning opporunities for all. Please consider making donations to Detroit Coffee Week when getting your tickets.

If you have any quetions or would like to be futher involved in DCW 2024, please don't hestitate to reach out to Amélie at [email protected]. Thanks!

Host or Publisher Amélie Haakonsen