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UK Cup Tasters at Cup North 2016

 This weekend, the 5th and 6th of November, Cup North | Manchester Coffee Fest will host, among many other brilliant things, The UK Cup Tasters Championship. The two day event pitches 36 of the country's best tasters over four rounds of competition to decide who will go forward and represent the UK in Budapest, Hungary next June.This is probably the biggest and toughest field the UK has seen, with competitors from every sphere of our industry; everything from green importers through roasters and baristas.Each table starts on the half hour starting @ 9.30 on Saturday, 10am on Sunday, ending at 16.30 on Sunday with the final three. All places for competition are taken but that's no reason not to come along...

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UK Coffee Roasting Championships

After a gruelling few days of competition, within the excellent hospitality of Dear Green Coffee, the Roasting Championship has finally come to its conclusion. It is with great pleasure we can report that for the second year running, Matthew Robley-Siemonsma from Prufrock came out top with 531.53 and will be representing the UK in Guangzhou. A huge congratulations to Matthew and good luck in China next year. Completing the top three respectively were; Edgars Juska from Prufrock 523.75 Bartosz Ciepaj from Molecular Coffee 523.25 Such a complex competition like this can not run well without the help and support from all the volunteers and organisers, but would not even go ahead without the help of our sponsors: Diedrich Roasters, Ikawa,...

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