Here in 2017, a New York City coffee theatre is positively buzzing. You can feel any travel dilemma in Manhattan, flitting any coffee punned filled sandwich board, any new emporium charity avocado toast and a matcha soothing serve. Over a weekend, this hum was captured, amplified, and strong on a dilemma of West 18th and 8th Avenue during a 2017 New York Coffee Festival.
For a third uninterrupted year, Allegra Events, a organizers of a famed London Coffee Festival, took their tried-and-true regulation of coffee party opposite a pond. Allegra Events’ New York Coffee Festival squeezed arts, music, coffees, and cold decoction into a air-conditioned halls of a Metropolitan Pavilion. Sprudge was there to soak it all in, and here are some of a favorite highlights of a weekend—the really best New York Coffee Festival yet.
Coffee Masters
Coffee Masters finalists Agnieszka Rojewska (left) and Erika Lee Vonie.
The third annual Coffee Masters tournament during a New York Coffee Festival crowned Erika Lee Vonie of Crop To Cup champion after 3 bomb days of coffee competitiveness. 16 competitors from around a universe faced a battery of challenges, closely monitored by a sharp judges Heather Perry (Klatch Coffee), Anne Lunell (Koppi Coffee), and Kris Shackman (Five Elephant). MCs Lem Butler (Black White Coffee Roasters) and Jordan Michelman (Sprudge) kept a throng hyped with their antics.
MC Lem Butler, USBC Champion and owner of Black White Coffee, tells us, “I have always enjoyed being a partial of coffee competitions. we wish others to have a same unrestrained that we have about Brewers Cup, Barista Competition, Cup Tasters, and now Coffee Masters. If we can put 120% of my appetite into emceeing coffee masters, afterwards maybe we can assistance emanate an overwhelming knowledge for a audience, a judges, and a contenders. It’s a distinctively dull foe that showcases a skills of coffee professionals from all over a world. we adore being a partial of something certain and incomparable than myself.”
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This was a favorite using of a Coffee Masters yet, heading adult to a riveting culmination between Vonie and Agnieszka Rojewska. Look for some-more on Erika Lee Vonie’s win in an arriving spotlight underline right here on Sprudge!
Imaginative Booths
Chugging divert during a Battenkill Valley Creamery booth.
Allegra Events attracts vendors from all walks of a coffee industry, any perplexing to surpass a other with resourceful counter designs and scintilating hand-outs. Festival-goers had opportunities to representation assorted milks from Battenkill Valley Creamery (the really same divert product used by 2017 USBC finalist Sam Lewontin), taste-test maple-infused cold brews surfaced with string candy from Variety Coffee Roasters, and enter a personal forever room to suffer a Stumptown Coffee beverage.
A palm appears in a sly Stumptown Coffee forever booth.
Coffee + Food Pairings
Charcuterie and Ratio Brewers during a Coutume Coffee Roasters tasting.
What’s finer than a scrupulously brewed Gesha coffee? Try pairing it with a singular caviar! Coutume Coffee Roasters out of Paris hold tastings any day of 3 coffees (brewed by Ratio Coffee brewers) and 3 food products: caviar, charcuterie, and excellent cheese. Each coffee had a possess food and was delicately deliberate formed on a coffee’s physique and astringency and a food’s fat and salt content. One festival attendee told us they’d never utterly gifted a season matrimony like a one they gifted during a tasting.
More from this knowledge will be explored in an arriving part of a Coffee Sprudgecast focused on coffee culinary experiences.
Latte Art Live
Downstairs during a Latte Art Live stage, Sprudge Media Network writer Lanny Huang led a weekend of latte art demonstrations, workshops, and throwdowns. Visitors flocked to this theatre to get a possibility to learn with some of coffee’s many mythological latte artists like Dee “Walt Deezy” Traylor, Dhan Tamang, and Erika Vonie.
“Latte Art Live was an interactive demonstration/presentation counter that featured a rotating expel of consultant latte artists including alien talent like Dritan Alsela and Shinsaku Fukuyama,” explains Huang. “The counter was MC’d all weekend by myself and Ryanne Allen of a Northeast Recreational Coffee Association (formerly TNT_NYC). It ran all 3 days of a festival with a baristas holding over a counter for 30 mins and possibly demonstrating, training or competing in latte art. Festival-goers were speedy to decider mini-throwdowns, step adult and flow their initial lattes, and make requests for designs they wanted to see. On Saturday night, Bluestone Lane took over to horde an out-of-date 16-barista throwdown.”
“The counter ordered a courtesy of a unchanging throng since latte art is still inarguably a coolest thing,” Huang tells Sprudge. (Somewhat controversially.)
True Artisan Café
Over twenty coffee roasters took turns during a Miami-themed La Marzocco True Artisan Café (booth pattern by Sprudge writer Elizabeth Chai). Baristas served giveaway coffee to guest all weekend prolonged off of a prolonged quarrel of Linea Mini espresso machines, with shifts from a extended swath of some of a world’s best roasters. Brands featured on a bar final weekend embody George Howell Coffee, Parlor Coffee, The Coffee Collective, Nobletree, Joe Coffee, Toby’s Estate, and many more.
With a plcae during a entrance approach to a event’s categorical floor, LM’s participation during a NY Coffee Festival was undeniable. Whether picking out a favorite spit and visiting them on purpose, or enjoying a serendipity of erratic adult to learn US Barista Champion Kyle Ramage portion his possess Black White Coffee espresso, this was a place to be.
There’s most some-more to adore from this festival—a live song competition, a coffee art exhibition, and all of it with deduction going to Project Waterfall, a free classification that works with H2O entrance NGOs in coffee producing nations. We’ve got some-more entrance out from a NY Coffee Festival coverage in a entrance days. Stay tuned!
Zachary Carlsen is a co-founder and editor during Sprudge Media Network. Read some-more Zachary Carlsen on Sprudge.
