Coffee Tasting Seminar and Workshop Most of us approach coffee as we do wine. We don’t claim to know what’s good, but we know what we like. That’s a great start, but anyone who’s entrenched in the industry, particularly those who cup, or evaluate and compare coffees...
We just held the best CoffeeCon ever! I was awed by the quality of specialty roasters and food exhibitors. We believe we really nailed the event in total. I saw many happy faces. Attendees and exhibitors alike said, “See you next year” at the event’s ending....
Coffee Con, the Consumer Coffee Festival keeps growing and have partnered with InterContinental Coffee Trading (ICT Coffee) based in San Diego, California to accelerate building specialty coffee consumer awareness. The mission is to educate the consumer on the...
You’ll note over the past several CoffeeCon events we’ve converted more classes to hands-on labs. What’s the difference? It’s huge in my observation. The first is the old school way of having the presenter instruct the use of a coffeemaker in front of everyone. Even...
My family are typical Chicagoans. We believe you are not a success, nor even really an American idea until you find acceptance in New York City. When we started taking CoffeeCon on the road I had a case of nerves about only two cities. New York was the first, and last...
CoffeeCon has many classes that are more obviously glamorous than maintenance. But Consider: there were recent scare headlines about slime buildup in K-Cup coffeemakers. The article may have been yellow journalism, but its message about the need to clean was relevant...
