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 Coffee Fest Seattle 2012
America's Best Espresso
Competition winners,1st Place:
Blue Star Coffee Roasters (Center)
2nd Place:
Conduit Coffee Company (Left)
3rd Place (Right):
Bowen Island Roasting Company
 Coffee Fest Seattle 2012
America's Best Espresso Competition
1st Place winner Blue Star Coffee Roasters of Twisp, WA,
Meg and Dan Donohue.
 Coffee Fest Seattle 2012
America's Best Espresso Competition
2nd Place winner Conduit Coffee Company of Seattle, WA,
Jesse Nelson accepts his award from Coffee Fest President, David Heilbrunn.
 Coffee Fest Seattle 2012
America's Best Espresso Competition
3rd Place winner Bowen Island Coffee Roasters of Bowen Island, BC, Canada
Gino and Victoria Rutigliano .
 The America's Best Espresso Competition Venue gave competing roasters four new, cutting edge espresso machines to choose from, including a Wega Concept Green Line, a Nuova Simonelli Aurellia II T3, a Rancilio XCELSIUS, and the Slayer Espresso Machine.
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Coffee Fest presents,
Americas Best Espresso Competition
Coffee Fest welcomes you to The NEW America's Best Espresso Competition. We are confident that you will find this to be an exciting and unique addition to the lineup of professional competitions produced by Coffee Fest.
Americas Best Espresso Competition is the vehicle that will determine and acknowledge the three best coffee roasters in North America. All coffee roasters in the U.S. and Canada, may apply to compete. The competition is broken into three regions that will compete once per year. The Coffee Fest Seattle competition will serve the western states and western Canada, Coffee Fest Chicago will serve the central states and central Canada, and Coffee Fest New York will serve the eastern states and eastern Canada. The three regions are broken down as follows:
Western –
States and Provinces:
Alaska
Alberta
Arizona
British Columbia
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Saskatchewan
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
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Central –
States and Provinces:
Alabama
Arkansas
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Manitoba
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Ontario
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
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Eastern –
States and Provinces:
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Brunswick
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Quebec
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
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APPLICATION PROCESS
To compete in the Coffee Fest, Americas Best Espresso Competition, interested roasters must apply to compete by completing the application for their region found at the bottom of this page. A maximum of 32 roasters will be selected to compete at each show for the championship Americas Best Espresso title.
Application deadline for Coffee Fest New York 2013 will be February 8, 2013, the application deadline for Coffee Fest Chicago 2013 will be May 5, 2013, and the application deadline for Coffee Fest Seattle 2013 will be August 30, 2013.
ON-SITE COMPETITION
The America’s Best Espresso Competition venue will provide competing roasters with a choice of four espresso machines and two espresso grinders. A Nuova Simonelli Aurellia II T3, a Wega Concept Green Line, a Rancilio XCELSIUS, and the Slayer Espresso Machine will be available as well as both an Anfim and MAHLKÖNIG espresso grinder. Competing roasters are welcome to bring their own espresso grinder of their choosing.
Once seeded within the tournament each roaster will know its Friday, opening round competition time. Each roaster will send their coffee and a Barista to pull a shot on one of the four espresso machines at the competition venue. Competitors will go head to head in a winner move on, loser go home tournament competition. The competition will continue in this fashion all the way down to the sweet 16 on Saturday and then the final four and championship final Sunday.
Baristas will have six minutes on Friday and ten minutes on Saturday and Sunday to prepare one espresso that will be submitted to the judging table of three carefully selected judges. Judges will be chosen from the field of Baristas competing in the Latte Art World Championship Open. Judges will evaluate the shots of espresso from each competitor in the categories of:
1) Flavor Complexity
2) Mouthfeel & Appeal
3) Aftertaste
The competition is designed to evaluate a roaster's coffee and in particular the roaster's espresso blend.
PRIZES
1st place
America's Best Espresso Competition trophy
2nd place
America's Best Espresso Competition trophy
3rd place
America's Best Espresso Competition trophy
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