With the SCAA Event in Seattle around the corner, Sustainable Harvest® is gearing up for an action-packed show. (See our full itinerary here.) We’ll be exhibiting in Booth #17083, and we’re very excited to share the excellent roster of coffee companies we work with that will be stopping by to showcase their coffees. From a San Francisco roaster quickly expanding to markets around the globe to a Guatemala exporter sending out top-quality coffees—and much in between—a breadth of exciting companies will be sharing some of the world’s best coffees at the Sustainable Harvest® booth. What’s more, our espresso machine and manual-brew bar will be staffed by some of the most talented baristas in specialty coffee.
Here are a few highlights:
On Friday from 1:30 to 2 p.m., Laila Ghambari (photo right, courtesy of Sprudge.com) of Seattle’s Cherry Street Coffee House will be in the booth making coffee from Finca El Manzano, roasted by Dillanos Coffee Roasters. El Manzano is located on the verdant slopes of the Santa Ana volcano in western El Salvador and owned by innovative farmer Emilio Lopez Diaz.
Laila won January’s Northwest Regional Barista Competition using the El Manzano coffee, and she’ll be calling on it again as she competes at the weekend’s United States Barista Championship. This will be a great chance to taste competition coffee and get all the details from Laila.
TG Lab will visit the booth on Saturday from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. The Guatemala City-based company exports some of Guatemala’s best coffee, and featured at the booth will be coffee from Santa Sofia, with the farm’s owner, Pablo Ferrigno, in attendance.
Located in the Tactic municipality in the department of Alta Verapaz, Santa Sofia is in a micro-climate of subtropical rainforest with very high humidity and very high elevation (about 5,800 feet). The conditions make for a long growing season in which the cherries develop slowly, resulting in a unique cup profile comparable to Kenyan coffee. Ferrigno is the only farmer in the micro-climate who grows coffee, as most farmers there focus on tomatoes.
On Sunday, Bethany Hargrove (photo left, courtesy of Sprudge.com) from Oregon’s Fresh Pot will be in the booth from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m brewing Stumptown’s Ecuador Cariamanga. The coffee is a select lot from 20 farmers of the Ecuadorian cooperative Procafeq, located in the Loja region in the south of the country.
Bethany works at The Fresh Pot, a three-location Portland cafe that serves Stumptown Coffee (and that was founded by Stumptown senior account manager Skip Colombo). Like Laila, Bethany will be competing at the weekend’s United States Barista Championship, and will be serving her competition coffee during her time in the Sustainable Harvest® booth.
This is just a small sampling of the excellent coffees and baristas that will be holding court in Booth #17083. Please stop by often to taste a varied assortment of our exciting offerings.
BOOTH SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 25
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters (Olympia, WA)
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Dillanos Coffee Roasters (Sumner, WA)
With Northwest Regional Barista Champion Laila Ghambari
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Allegro Coffee (Denver, CO)
Saturday, April 26
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tony’s Coffee (Bellingham, WA)
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
TG Lab (Guatemala City, Guatemala)
With Pablo Ferrigno, owner of Santa Sofia
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Blue Bottle Coffee (San Francisco, CA and New York, NY)
Sunday, April 27
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Equator Coffee (San Rafael, CA)
With Devorah Freudiger
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Stumptown Coffee (Portland, OR)
With USBC competitor Bethany Hargrove
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