At the Global Coffee Awards World Championship in San Salvador, El Salvador this past March, Lithuania’s Huracán Coffee was named the world’s best roaster — besting 30 finalists from 16 countries who advanced from more than 2,000 sample entries worldwide.
Latest Award Winning Coffee News
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Wenbo Yang Wins 2026 U.S. Coffee Roasting Championship — Buy His Coffee at Cozy Monster
In late February, Wenbo “Joe” Yang won the 2026 U.S. Coffee Roasting Championship in Houston, competing against 24 roasters at Roastronix HQ. The competition covered green coffee evaluation, sample roasting, cupping, and roast curve analysis — Yang topped the field in all of it.
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Cup of Excellence Nicaragua 2026: Two Geisha Lots Lead the Field — Auction Opens June 25
Nicaragua’s 2026 Cup of Excellence results are in, and the story at the top is straightforward: Geisha varieties swept both category winners from 29 competing lots.
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World Coffee Championships 2026: Four Competitions Head to Brussels This June
Four world-level coffee competitions are heading to Brussels, Belgium this June — and if you follow the specialty coffee circuit, this is the weekend to watch.
The World Coffee Championships will be held June 25–27, 2026 at the World of Coffee Brussels trade show, bringing national champions from dozens of countries to compete on a single stage across four disciplines:
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Coffee Fest’s Second Espresso Winner of 2017
June 9th, in Chicago was the second of 3 espresso competitions Coffee Fest will hold this year. Pilcrow Coffee Roasters was the winner of the America’s Best Espresso title.
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Coffee Fest’s First Espresso Winner of 2017
Coffee Fest planned 3 Espresso competitions this year. The first was held last weekend in Nashville and the Best Espresso winner iiiiiiiss…
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Best Coffees of 2016
There are several competitions over the year, but this post highlights the winning coffees out there that you might be able to obtain and try. Please fee free to contact me if you have a link to any of these coffees and I’ll update the post with it.
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Kalibús la Sierra
Australian roaster @LnDCoffeeTrade picked up the @cupofexcellence Guatemalan winner back in June.
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Monte Llano Bonito
@MARUYAMA_COFFEE was an auction winner of this years first place Costa Rica @cupofexcellence. @sprudge wrote a good article about them http://ow.ly/wXnH305FGyh.
