Want a chance to cup coffees that you don’t get to taste every day? Do you like the idea of meeting and mingling with coffee aficionados, roasters, cuppers, retailers, and baristas from all over the world? Have you ever dreamt of competing for your country on the World stage? If you answered yes any of [...]
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A note from Pat Russell, 2010 Canadian Cup Tasters Champion
September 13, 2011
2011 Canadian Cup Tasters Championship Registration is open!
September 2, 2011
Well, the inaugural year for the Canadian Cup Tasters Championship was I think by all accounts an unbridled success in 2010 in Toronto. You can read Mark Prince’s two blog posts to get a sense of what the 2010 competition was like. So we are of course back for another year in 2011! Register for the 2011 [...]
Prizes announced
September 7, 2010
We’ve confirmed the prizes for the top competitors at the Canadian Cup Tasters Championships. Here they are: First place: 12-month coffee subscription from Square Mile Coffee Roasters and a Technivorm Moccamaster from Transcend Coffee. Second place: 6-month coffee subscription, a Hario V60 and Hario Buono Kettle from Transcend Coffee. Third place: 6-month coffee subscription from [...]
Call for volunteers!
August 27, 2010
This is the first year we are running the Canadian Cup Tasters Championship at the Canadian Coffee and Tea show, and we need your help to pull it off. Volunteering will entail mostly setting up, very carefully brewing coffee and preparing bowls of coffee for the competitors and cleaning up. Canadian Coffee & Tea show [...]
List of Competitors
August 26, 2010
It only took a couple of days to fill all the spots for the competition, and we even added four extra spots! This is going to be an exciting event. Check out the list of competitors below. There are some heavy hitters in Canadian coffee there! The level of competition is going to be intense, and we [...]
Registration is open!
August 16, 2010
You can now officially register to compete in the Canadian Cup Tasters Championship. Just head over to the registration page on Transcend Coffee’s website. Once you purchase the registration, you’re in and you’ll be one of the twelve palate warriors that will clash cupping spoons in an epic battle of senses, perception and memory. Also, [...]
The Canadian Cup Tasters Championship is set!
August 11, 2010
That’s right, everything is set for the first truly Canadian Cup Tasters Championship. Yes it’s true there have been groups of Canadians who have got together and tasted coffee in a competitive fashion, but it has always been at the SCAA, in the USA, so it wasn’t really fully and completely Canadian. Until now. September [...]
