Join us in our Oslo HQ for a monthly cupping on the first Thursday of the month. Everyone is welcome, email Bjørnar to reserve your place.
CCS Acevedo Cup 2019
Wednesday January 16 to Monday January 21st, 2019.
Join us in Huila, Colombia, for the third annual CCS Acevedo Cup, with our partners, Fairfield Trading.
The CCS Acevedo Cup is an annual quality competition that brings together the entire community of specialty producers in the micro-region of Acevedo. Five action-packed days of cupping and farm visits culminate in an awards ceremony with the entire community in attendance. The top twenty coffees are announced, along with the winners of the price premiums offered for each category.
CCS invites roasters, green coffee buyers and QC managers to join us in Acevedo, Huila, as judges of the CCS Acevedo Cup 2019.
Register to attend the CCS Acevedo Cup 2019
Why attend the CCS Acevedo Cup
The CCS Acevedo Cup is the perfect way to get to know an entire community of coffee producers in a condensed period of time. Through five intense days of cupping and farm visits, plus the awards ceremony which is a major event on producers’ calendars, roasters can cup and meet the producers behind scores of unique and delicious coffees. It is an opportunity to forge a long-term relationship with an individual producer, like Parlor Coffee in Brooklyn, NY, who are now exclusively buying the entire specialty grade production of producer Maria Bercelia Martinez.
This event is a fixture in the harvest in Acevedo, attracting hundreds of entries from the entire coffee growing community. The feedback provided by international judges is invaluable to producers, and placing in this competition is a great honor for any grower. As an international guest, you will be treated with great respect, and you will enjoy heartfelt hospitality from all of the producers and their families.
Price premiums per carga of parchment (125kg)
The price paid by Fairfield in recent months for coffee that passes their strict quality assessment was, on average, between 900,000 and 1,100,000 COP per carga. Prices that will be paid to the top twenty lots in the CCS Acevedo Cup 2019 are:
1st place - $2.200,000 COP
2nd place - $2,000,000 COP
3rd to 5th place - $1,800,000 COP
6th to 10th place - $1,500,000 COP
11th to 15th place - $1,300,000 COP
16th to 20th place - $1,200,000 COP
LOGISTICS
We will fly from Bogota to Pitalito early morning on Wednesday January 16th, and return to Bogota from Neiva in the evening of Monday January 21st. Judges must arrange their own international flights, and we will send you the details of the domestic flights. Ground transport and hotels in Huila will all be arranged by Fairfield Trading.
Each day we will cup in the morning, and visit producers in the afternoon.
We will cup three tables per day, 50 to 70 lots in total that have been screened and preselected by the well trained quality management team at Fairfield Trading. The last two days will be spent cupping and placing the top twenty coffees.
On Sunday the producers are invited to the award ceremony in Acevedo Town. The top twenty place getters are announced, followed by a Colombian-style celebration where you can meet the producers of these exceptional coffees.
Why Acevedo?
Acevedo is a municipality located in the south-easternmost corner of the Huila department of Colombia, wedged in the fork between the central and eastern cordilleras (mountain ranges) where the Colombian Andes split into three distinct mountain ranges (the western, central and eastern cordilleras). Just beyond the central and eastern cordillera convergence is jungle and thus, moist, cool air. This cool air simulates increased elevation, and creates many different microclimates with diverse humidity, temperature and rainfalls, leading to varying and ideal coffee-growing conditions.
The variety found in the cup profiles coming from Acevedo reflect its array of microclimates. Altitude ranges from 1200 to 1800 meters above sea level (masl) with many of the farms we buy from lying within the 1400 to 1800-meter range. Coffees produced at higher elevations are typically denser and are therefore appreciated more by specialty coffee professionals. An increase of elevation usually results in an increase in perceived acidity in the cup. This is potentially in part due to an increase in exposure to UV radiation, but mostly caused by the larger diurnal swings that happen at higher elevations. The cooler nights that occur at higher elevations lead to slower cherry maturation, which leads to sweeter, more complex cups.
Elsewhere in Colombia, altitudes of around 1400 masl can produce uninteresting, flat coffees. But Acevedo coffees are the exception to that rule. Whether they’re grown at the higher or lower part of the elevation range, they are incredibly sweet, complex and fruited cups. When you visit Acevedo, it is easy to understand why. Mornings and evenings are cool, even in Acevedo town which is only 1300 masl. Daily showers are extremely refreshing, or brutally cold, depending on your attitude, as hot water does not pour from taps in this part of Colombia. On many farms you can see literally watch the billowing, moist clouds roll in from the jungle to envelop the farms. This moist air makes drying the coffee difficult, so farmers use raised, covered beds, which adds to the fruited complexity of these beautiful lots.
Taiwan International Coffee Festival
Friends in Taiwan, Julia will be in Taipei at the Taiwan International Coffee Festival with our partners Green Coffee Gallery! Join Julia and the team for four cuppings daily at booth N1305-11, 1206-12.
Cupping Schedule:
Friday November 16
11:00 Kenya
14:00 Ethiopia Washed
15:30 Ethiopia Natural
16:30 Burundi, Colombia
Saturday November 17
11:00 Kenya
14:00 Ethiopia Washed
15:30 Ethiopia Natural
16:30 Honduras, Guatemala
Sunday November 18
11:00 Kenya
14:00 Ethiopia Washed
15:30 Ethiopia Natural
16:30 Panama, Costa Rica
Monday November 19
11:00 Kenya
14:00 Ethiopia Washed
15:30 Ethiopia Natural
Email Julia for more information.
Petaling Jaya Cupping, Malaysia
Coffee lovers in Petaling Jaya, Julia is coming to town! Join Julia and our friends from The Roast Things in their cafe, Cream, for a cupping on Wednesday November 14 at 3pm. Spaces are limited, so email Julia to reserve yours.
Singapore Cupping, East Cost
Roasters in Singapore, Julia is coming your way! Join her and our friends from Compound Coffee Co. for a cupping on Tuesday November 13 at 5pm. Spaces are limited, so email Julia to reserve yours.
CCS at the Seoul Cafeshow 2018
Friends in Seoul, Julia is in town! She’ll be at the Seoul Coffee Festival on Friday November 9 and Saturday November 10, and cupping with our friends at Bean Brothers. The cupping is fully booked, but Julia is available to meet at the expo, or at your roastery. Email Julia to make a time to meet.
San Francisco Cupping
Join Colleen for this cupping in San Francisco on November 15 with our friends from Fellow.
Colleen will present twelve stellar Kenyan coffees which will all be discounted in our November 15 Sale. This is a unique chance to taste the coffees and book them on the spot for a one-time low price of $4.90/lb.
Spaces are limited. Email Colleen to reserve yours.
CCS SALE
We need to clear our warehouse for some exciting coffees arriving soon, so we’re having a massive one-day sale on November 15, 2018. Most of these coffees are fresh and cupping beautifully, but we need to move them quickly. That means great prices for you as you gear up for the holidays.
Check out these huge discounts.
Conditions
In order to secure these great prices coffees must be booked on November 15, 2018 and released by December 15, 2018. No soft bookings, only contracted coffees can be purchased with these discounts.
Los Angeles Cupping
Friends in SoCal, Colleen is coming your way for a series of cuppings.
She’ll be in LA on Friday November 2nd at 10am for a cupping of stellar Colombian, Kenyan and Guatemalan coffees with our friends from Paramount Coffee Project in DTLA.
Spaces are limited, so email Colleen to reserve yours.
Prague Coffee Festival 2018, Recap
Catch up on all the action from the Prague Coffee Festival, with Veronika, plus cameos from many CCS friends including Populus Coffee, Doubleshot, Nordbeans, Casino Mocca, Diamond’s Roastery, Morgon Coffee Roasters, Kavarna Prazirna and Coffee Desk.
CCS Monthly Cupping
Beginning this November, CCS will hold a monthly cupping in our Oslo HQ.
On the first Thursday of the month we will make a selection of coffees to cup with our friends in the specialty coffee community. It will be a relaxed family affair and everyone is welcome.
On the table you’ll find a selection of the most interesting lots we have cupped in the last month, be they experimental lots, new origins or regions, or simply delicious coffees we want you to try.
Anyone interested in specialty coffee is welcome.
Join us for the first of our monthly cuppings on Thursday November 1, 3pm at the CCS Oslo HQ: Enebakkveien 117b, 0680, Oslo, Norway.
Email Bjornar for more information.
San Diego Cupping
Friends in SoCal, Colleen is coming your way for a series of cuppings. She’ll be in San Diego on November 1st for a cupping of stellar Colombian, Kenyan and Guatemalan coffees with our friends from Manzanita Roasting Company.
The roastery is located at the south entrance of the Bernardo Winery. (Stick around for a wine tasting if you’re so inclined.)
Spaces are limited, so email Colleen to reserve yours.
Bay Area Cupping at CoRo
Our friends at Bay Area CoRoasters will host CCS for a cupping this Thursday, October 11, at 10am. Colleen will be there with delicious Kenyas and Guatemalas, and to discuss your 2019 purchase planning.
Spaces are limited. Email Colleen to reserve yours.
Ljubljana Coffee Festival 2018, Recap
CCS at the International Barcelona Coffee Festival
CCS and our friends at SlowMov will kick off the International Barcelona Coffee Festival with a cupping of fresh crops from Kenya, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, plus a few surprises!
Wednesday Oct 10th, 5 pm
SlowMov
Address: Carrer de Luis Antúnez, 18, 08006 Barcelona, Espagne
Spaces are limited to 15 people. Email Nico to confirm yours.
CCS at the Prague Coffee Festival
Friends in Czech Republic, CCS is coming to town for the Prague Coffee Festival. Veronika will be there, brewing with our friends at Coffee Desk, and visiting CCS family members including Populus Coffee, Doubleshot, Nordbeans, Casino Mocca, Diamond’s Roastery, Morgon Coffee Roasters, and Kavárna Pražírna.
Join us in the Cupping Room on Saturday October 20 at 1.30pm to cup some fresh crops from Costa Rica, and La Palma y El Tucán from Cundinamarca, Colombia. Plus we will have a selection of incoming coffees from Peru, a new origin for CCS.
Veronika is around to meet and discuss your roastery’s menu, forward planning for 2019, or just to have a chat. Email Veronika to make a time.
CCS at PIR Coffee Expo
Friends in Russia, drop by Booth 3F115 at PIR Coffee Expo and say hi to Nico. He’ll be there with our partners KLD Coffee Importers on Wednesday September 26 and Thursday September 27.
On Friday September 28 at 11am Nico will be at the KLD offices hosting a cupping of fresh crops La Palma y El Tucán. Contact Nicolas for more details.
Ljubljana Coffee Festival
Friends in Slovenia, Veronika is coming to the Ljubljana Coffee Festival.
On Friday the 5th of October Veronika will give a presentation on the role of a sourcing company in the specialty coffee supply chain in The Lab, and at 5pm she will lead a cupping of select CCS summer crops at the Sensory Cupping Table.
On Saturday she will be around, judging the barista competition and meeting old and new friends. Want to meet with Veronika? Get in touch.
Honduras Cupping with Benjamin Paz
We are thrilled to announce that our good friend Benjamin Paz will be in Oslo next week. Benjamin is both a producer and an exporter of coffee from Santa Barbara. To celebrate, we will host a cupping of fresh crop Honduran coffees that are fresh off the boat.
Spaces are limited. Email Bjørnar to reserve yours.
Summer's End Celebration Recap
The CCS Summer’s End Celebration was our biggest cupping event for the year so far. For two action-packed days we cupped, chatted, discussed, competed and partied with roasters from all over the world.
Tetsu Kasuya wowed us all with his cupping skills in the LPET Tasters Challenge, and took home the great prize of 12.5kg of La Palma y El Tucan Heroes Series Sidra Lactic. Spectators were also part of the action with a competition to guess the winner of the finals and their time. Emi of Mame Coffee in Switzerland was the lucky winner of 1kg of LPET gesha, by picking Tetsu as the winner of the competition, guessing he would complete the challenge in one minute. It took Tetsu 51 seconds.
Stay tuned for details of our next cupping event in November. Sign up for our newsletter to make sure you are the first to know.