Team Challenge

Chrononautics

The intent of this year's Team Challenge is to show skill and planning when navigating an inevitable hurdle in coffee roasting – serving past crop coffee. Teams will have past crop and fresh crop coffee that they will need to blend together and serve. Both the past crop and fresh crop coffee are the same exact coffee – just harvested in different years.

You’ll work in your assigned teams to work with a past crop coffee and fresh crop coffee provided by our sponsor, Atlas Coffee Importers, and create a submission that must include at least 75% of the aged green coffee (past crop) and the remainder of the blend can be fresh crop of the same coffee. Please note that using any other coffee will result in disqualification. Whether to post blend or pre blend your submission is up to you! 

Final submissions will be blindly cupped and scored by all attendees using Cropster Cup App. The results and winning team will be selected and announced on Saturday evening with an award ceremony. 

You’ll need to put all your roasting and creative skills to work as part of the challenge may be more than just roasting.