Roasting coffee beans is tough work during a best of times. Doing it on a truck, with unknown roasting equipment, just kicks adult a pressure.
Such were a conditions under that Mark Boccard, owners of Southdown Coffee in Huntington and Oyster Bay, found himself progressing this month, competing opposite some of a many learned roasters in a nation during a U.S. Coffee Championships in Kansas City. He walked divided with third place in a roasting competition, out of a margin that began with dozens of contenders.
“I was anticipating I’d be in a tip six” pronounced Boccard, though he also suspicion he “bombed” one apportionment of a event. “Then we started meditative this would not be my year, though I did really well.”
The U.S. Roaster Championship (USRC) is an annual foe with a few rounds; the competitors are charged with grading immature (or unroasted) beans, creating a fry plan, and afterwards roasting that coffee on site. The initial qualifier had 36 competitors, as did a second, pronounced Boccard, with a tip 12 from any turn advancing to a next.
When Boccard done it to a final, he posted a print to Instagram: “You’re looking during one nap deprived, manic bag of haughtiness endings about to conduct into that large red roasting lorry to compete.” The beans given to a competitors were from Colombia.
Back on his home turf, Boccard roasts beans during Southdown Coffee in Huntington for both that spot and another in Oyster Bay. He said a third Southdown is set to open in Glen Cove after this year, in a former JH Coles Homestead on Glen Street, and he will eventually move roasting operations there — opening adult some-more seating in Huntington, that is substantially honeyed news to those who visit a little spot.
Southdown Coffee, 210-B Wall St. in Huntington and 49 Audrey Ave. in Oyster Bay. southdowncoffee.com.
Corin Hirsch is a Long Island local who covers food, drinks and restaurants for Newsday, that she assimilated in Mar 2017.