In addition to owning and operating Carrboro Coffee Roasters, our own Scott Conary is a member of the National Support Committee for World Coffee Events; and a current and frequent Head Judge to World Barista Championship (WBC) and US Barista Championship (USBC) competitions. This month, we send Scott off to the Philippines to conduct a …
UNC student Caleb Goodnight came in to shoot for a systems project to show our whole system, from green coffee to a drink. Check it out!
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The Competition will take place during the 9th Seoul International Cafe Show. In his capacity as a member of the World Barista Training Committee, he will spend the day before the competition training judges to prepare them to properly evaluate the 30 competitiors signed up for this event. More info can be found at : …
Carrboro Coffee Roasters are Finalists in this years Good Food Awards held in San Francisco, with Our Cup of Excellence from Honduras; Tomas Sosa Calderon’s El Aguacate!!!! Boy are we in good company!!! Congrat’s to all the other fine roasters! The Good Food Awards were created through a collaboration of food producers, farmers, food journalists …
Grounds For Health Through Grounds for Health, women in coffee growing countries are receiving life saving cervical cancer screenings at an estimated materials cost of 23 cents each! 80% of cervical cancer cases are in the developing world and is the #1 cause of cancer death for women in low-resource settings, including coffee-growing communities. They …
My recent travel has brought me back to Dubai in the UAE – ex-oil, newly found vacationland ( sorry Maine…). Not your average vacation of course. I describe it as Las Vegas X100. When the oil ran out, the economy had to re-focus. The reorientation was about high end, wonderland-like tourism. Who else would drive …
Scott Conary, president of Carrboro Coffee Roasters; an artisan coffee roaster in NC, was recently re-certified as an instructor by the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). Conary, Chair of the SCAA USBC Committee, participated in SCAA’s most recent instructor development program workshop which was offered in Houston, Texas. The workshop trains participants to apply …
Carrboro Coffee Roasters has one coffee tree in Carrboro, NC – you can find it in the sunlit window at the Open Eye Café. It may yield a few beans in a few years, maybe enough for one shot of espresso. This point highlights the fact that in the continental United States, coffee can’t be …
The first World Barista Championship Judges Certification for 2011-12 will take place on October 25-26, 2010 in Bogotá, Colombia at the Colombian Coffee Federation (Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros- FNC). Scott Conary will lead this Certification along with Brent Fortune, owner of Crema Bakery & Cafe in Portland, Oregon. Workshops for WBC Judges Certification will be …
Scott Conary has been invited to Bogota to Train judges & act as Head Judge at the 5th Annual Colombian National Barista Championship. In his capacity as a member of the World Barista Training Committee, he will spend 2 days before the competition training judges to prepare them to properly evaluate the 30 competitiors signed …