Last week the coffee Industry judged and awarded Australia’s and New Zealand’s best coffee roasting business at the 12th annual Pentair Everpure Golden Bean Roaster’s Competition and Conference.
The coastal town of Port Macquarie, headquarters for Café Culture International, was blessed with the smell of roasted coffee in the air as the industry judged the country’s best at this year’s Pentair Everpure Golden Bean Roaster’s Competition the Largest Coffee Roasters competition in the world.
Entries were received from over 200 Australian & New Zealand coffee roasting businesses with 1,402 coffees judged across 10 categories.
This was a record number of entries and the event still maintains it position as the World’s Largest Coffee Roaster Competition.
The overall winner of this year’s competition was ONA Coffee from Canberra who entered exceptional coffees in the Espresso, Milk and Filter categories.
This year the Franchise/Chain Store overall award was split into Large and Small categories. Foodco – Jamaica Blue took out the overall Large franchise award whilst the Espresso Room claimed the small franchise award for the second time.
Here are the overall event champions and category Gold Medalist:
Overall Champion: ONA Coffee
Overall Runner Up: Zest Specialty Coffee Roasters
Overall 2nd Runner Up: Coffee Snobs
Overall Large Franchise Champion: Jamaica Blue
Overall Small Franchise Champion: Espresso Room
Espresso: ONA Coffee – Finca Deborah
Milk Based: Patio Coffee – Ethipiano Sidamo Areka
Pour Over Filter: Zest Specialty Coffee Roasters – Ethiopian Suke Quto
Australian/NZ Grown: High Trees Estate – Premium Single Estate Organic
Organic: The Vertue of the Coffee Drink – Guatemala Renanciamento
Single Origin: Boston Bean Coffee Company – Odyssey Yirgacheffe Konga
Decaffeinated: Nats Coffee – Indo Blend Decaf
Chain Store/Franchise Espresso: White Mojo – Gawain
Chain Store/Franchise Milk Based : Mantle & Moon – Super Nova 2.0 & Tulip Shi – Tulip Shi Cafe
Chain Store/Franchise Filter: Roasting Australia – Gloria Jeans Colombia
