The Netherlands’ annual coffeepalooza filled factory-turned-funhouse Westergasfabriek behind in Mar 2017. Part trade uncover and partial barista tournament, a 2017 Amsterdam Coffee Festival had copiousness of quip stands, brands, and aged hands. Yet this year also seemed to offer improved gender change among participants, even some-more general visitors, and an officialized partnership between coffee and cocktails around a entrance Mixologists foe (look for some-more coverage soon!)
1) Brewers Cup Championship
The initial Dutch coffee foe leader for 2017 was… a Swede. Daniella Nyström is best famous in these tools as a spritely barista and consultant fermenter during Amsterdam cafeteria Scandinavian Embassy. For a pretension of Dutch Brewers Cup Champion, she used a cleared Ethiopian Kochere roasted by Coffee Collective in Denmark. Skål!
2) Cup Tasters Championship
The book of Esther is full of awards and distinctions—including that of four-time inhabitant latte art champion—though this time Esther Maasdam was crowned Dutch Cup Tasters Champion. She was one of 32 contenders, and a final turn was a nail-biter, with a glow engine-red manicured victress violence Laurent L’Ortye by usually one scold guess.
3) Jar Coffea
Glass terrariums are frequency gainful to drifting off shelves, though Amsterdam pattern organisation Pikaplant seemed to have no onslaught offered a Jar Coffea. The hermetically hermetic biotope contains a singular citation of coffee—it’s eye-catching and self-watering!
4) Back To Black
Just over a year given their roasting operation began, Back to Black has, discordant to a Winehouse lyrics, not found a contingency are stacked. The Amsterdam cafeteria was showcasing co-owner and spit Inge Bulthuis’ sundry output, now inclusive adequate to obligate a new second location. Meanwhile on a foe floor, barista Sybilla Jimmink won a 2017 Louis Claus Award for internal coffee attention up-and-comer.
5) Dutch Hand Coffee Grinding Championship
Stooker Roasting Co was so stoked about a Orphan Espresso LIDO 3, they hosted a palm coffee harsh foe to endowment one to a fastest pulverizer of 30 grams of a Kenyan Kangocho peaberry. The winner came in during 25.14 seconds.
6) Barista Championship
With evil regard and humility, quadruple Irish barista champ Colin Harmon conferred a 2017 Dutch Barista Champion prize onto Merijn Gijsbers. The freelancer from Eindhoven, who works underneath a name het Koffiegenootschap, came in sixth in a same foe last year. He thanked his coaches Ben Morrow and Esther Maasdam for assisting him make a burst and roasting a Panamanian La Berlina Geisha that did a job.
7) JADE cups
From afar, they could be cupping bowls. On closer look, a white porcelain JADE cups designed by Eindhoven-based product developer Maarten Baptist seemed in 3 sizes and showed distinguished details: a two-tone Twizzler-effect band, a singular polka dot, or difference parsed from a, let’s say, coffee koan.
8) Tea Jam
Kiona Malinka kept an assembly watchful during her Tea Jam, a 30-minute riff on Chinese and Japanese tea cultures and how they contrariety with today’s Dutch celebration practices. A remarkably courteous small child gay in a comparison of his jacket’s tone with that of her matcha bowl. Malinka’s Crusio Tea is headquartered in Bergen op Zoom, though a brand’s grand cylinders can be speckled during specialty cafes around a country.
9) Latte Art Championship
Winning this year’s Dutch Latte Art Championship noted a trifecta for Nick Vink, who works during grill H32 in Oss. Like a Netherlands’ new series one barista, Vink hails from a range of North Brabant, also famously home to Kees outpost der Westen and a Bossche bol.
10) Holy Cannoli
It was unfit not to grin during a pinkish ensign reading: “We understand—coffee first! But can we only contend cannoli second?” The anxiety was to a Dutch-created video knocking American exceptionalism that went viral after a US presidential coronation and spawned copycat clips opposite a Schengen Area. And turns out, a cream-filled tube-shaped pastries that Dutch association Cannoli sells B2B are tasty, too. Viva l’Olanda!
Karina Hof is a Sprudge staff author formed in Amsterdam. Read some-more Karina Hof on Sprudge.