Golden Bean Roaster Competition & Conference. Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.

GaryatGala

Nicely written Attilio. Good to know things with the flight worked out in the end and you enjoyed the event. What would we do without the copy and paste function.

FreshCoffee2

Not wrong 🙂 The total time to get home was from 11am to 7pm, a reasonably heavy investment in time, and in actuality, a heavy investment in cost as well. The Golden Bean is in Caloundra and the airport is in Maroochydore. Its a $140.00 round trip in taxi fares (or you wait for and catch the bus, but this adds a substantial and unacceptable time penalty.....). You could hire a car, if you intended to make use of it while at the conference (not) and that costs more for no gain! Note the times given above were qld time to nsw time ie non daylight saving to daylight saving so its really 1 hour less than it seems......correspondingly on the way to the conference the trip seemed unbelievably short due to "losing" an hour in the time change. Coffee Comp results should be somewhere on the Cafe Culture website soon......the presentation dinner is on now as I write.

Koffee_Kosmo

The full results of this years Golden Bean have been posted This is a PDF link of all the categories http://www.cafeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/results.pdf Feel free to signal out winners that you know for well deserved congratulations KK

C-man

mycuppa wrote:

Just chatting with the Golden Bean organizers - there was an error in the previously published information. Corrected mycuppa results:- Single Origin - Silver (was previously shown as Syphon) Espresso - Bronze (just missed Silver) Milk-Based - Bronze

Can I ask which SO got the Silver?

mycuppa

C-man wrote:

Can I ask which SO got the Silver?

Last year's news. Tanzania TEC Estate - which at the moment is not available. However, I do have contact details for the Christian Brothers who run now the plantation as a kind chap that now lives in Sydney and was a 2nd generation family member that originally ran the farm in Tanzania for 30+ years - passed the contact details to us.

Koffee_Kosmo

I have a kilo of Tanzania TEC Estate from Mycuppa :thumb:

GaryatGala

Holy guacamole! I came third in the milk section for CS. I would like to thank my dog for eating up the chaff and dragging bags of beans around, and to my neighbours for putting up with me stinking up their wet laundry with the sweet smell of second crack...yak yak...

Lwowiak

Congratulations Gary. Well done.

greenman

Well done Gary, legendary stuff!!🙂🙂

Koffee_Kosmo

GaryatGala wrote:

Holy guacamole! I came third in the milk section for CS. I would like to thank my dog for eating up the chaff and dragging bags of beans around, and to my neighbours for putting up with me stinking up their wet laundry with the sweet smell of second crack...yak yak...

Well done Gary :thumb: What roaster did you use in the competition ? The FZR or the KKTO KK.

GaryatGala

Thanks fellas. :thumb: My choice of roaster would have been the KKTO, but due to the limited amount of beans i had, it had to be the FZRR baby roaster. The mexican beans were tricky since i never roasted mexicans before. I picked it because the tasting notes said it has good bold flavours which would go well with milk.

UNM

good one Gary!. With beans you don't know too. Love that you read the marketing blurb to decide what to roast :thumb: :thumb:

admin

ditto, congrats mate

GaryatGala

Thanks again. I will however continue to use the sponsors of this fine forum for the majority of my bean purchases. i somehow like to support the underdogs, as their quality has always been very good, and they deserve my support as a result.

Kelsey

In all my baby-and-work business I've missed this until now. Considering it was in my neck of the woods, I'm very disappointed! I was chatting to the girls and guys at Edge Espresso, my local in Caloundra and they mentioned some of the roasters had been in for a chat. I'll be passing on the donor popper from Brett to one of the girls there whose expressed an interest in roasting (if that's ok with you, BrettH, of course!). So who wants to put their hand up for being responsible for converting her to our lunatic passion?

Lacehim

Kelsey, sadly it's not open to the public mate or I would have dragged you down there with me! It's in the 100s of $$$ to attend, which is a shame, a public day would be fantastic so that you can actually see what goes on, and meet some of the leaders in the industry. Also I do think the costs for home roasting section was pretty high and deterred a lot of people. Myself included. Not everyone has $70 odd to throw at a comp.

Kelsey

That is a shame, would've been fun.

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