Author name: Emma McDougall

Generously sponsored by MTC Group, the Re:co New Zealand dinner is your chance to meet and mingle with the speakers and attendees of one one of the worlds preeminent specialty coffee events. Tickets include a three course meal and drinks at La Cigale, Parnell. Tickets are available HERE.

We are excited to announce that we’re bringing Re:co, the world’s pre-eminent coffee symposium, to New Zealand

Come and see the latest from Nuova Simonelli, the WBC machinery sponsor. This is a hands on demo of the new Black Eagle Gravimetric with a few beers and nibbles…and it’s FREE!

Ozone wants you to throw down your best! Cost: Free!! And sweet prizes for the winner….even cash money!

All the action from this year’s AGM, including a constitutional amendment.

Huge thanks to Michael CY Park for the crisp pics!

The New Zealand Roaster Guild is pulling together an Origin Trip in mid-August, to coincide with coffee symposium Re:co Guatemala, and the Anacafe (National coffee association of Guatemala) National Coffee Congress. This is an amazing opportunity, not only to visit one of the most prestigious coffee producing nations in the world, but also to connect

Some interesting results from each region. Auckland tasters seemed to follow the science, preferring water with the lowest alkalinity and hardness, with group rankings getting steadily worse as hardness and alkalinity increased. However, Wellington and Christchurch both favoured their own city’s water (is it what they’re used to, or was the blind tasting not-so-blind after all?)