Some people come to compete; some people come to learn; and some people prioritize a many networking opportunities. Yet during a SCA Global Specialty Coffee Expo, a inundate of glossy new products typically offers at slightest a few sparkling points of seductiveness to anyone in coffee. Whether one’s seductiveness is in roasting, espresso, cold coffee, collection or single-cup brewing, creation abounds on a salon floor.
Of course, a product resplendent a many brightly in a hearts this year is a newly expelled “Book of Roast” by Roast magazine, nonetheless let’s take this event to demeanour outward, over shameless self-promotion.
The fast industrializing cold coffee shred was good represented this year with new exhibitors displaying commercial-scale wares, among that a BKON Storm stands quite tall. Faema’s latest walk brazen in espresso technology, the E71, done a central U.S. open debut, including demos of a three-phase descent routine that can be automatic or achieved manually by approach of a lever-like group-top controller and a 4.3-inch touchscreen interface.
The Faema E71. Daily Coffee News photo.
Nicholas Cho’s December Dripper was benefaction and supposing provender for some intent reconsideration of a variables in primer pourover brewing, and a Voga Coffee booth, arrangement off a company’s handsomely and well redesigned Ground Control collection brewer, was usually humming with interest.
The Ground Control II brewer in action. Daily Coffee News photo.
We’ll have some-more product rollout news from a Expo building to share in a entrance days and weeks, though here are a few of a show’s standouts, including a new Diedrich roaster, Acaia’s whole-bean dosing and wrapping scale, a groundbreaking Stronghold S7 Pro roaster, and a La Marzocco Strada ABR.
The Diedrich CR 35
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One of a bigger surprises of a uncover was a new spit from Idaho-based Diedrich Roasters, a CR 35. “We haven’t unequivocally altered a systems a lot in a final integrate years,” Diedrich Relationship Manager Steve Paquin told Daily Coffee News, describing a appurtenance as a CR-series redesign from a belligerent adult that’s been in a works for a past year. “We took a lot of a quirky sum people wanted and integrated them and re-engineered them so they work.”
The clearest depart of a CR 35 is of march a 35-kilo capacity, dictated to cleanly accommodate a half bag, that precipitates a phasing out of Diedrich’s 25- and 50-kilo models. Beyond that, a CR 35 offers a variable-speed drum, upgraded temperament system, twin infrared burners, and hinged paneling on all sides of a appurtenance for easier cleaning and maintenance.
Buyers have a choice of upgrading to a “super reward efficiency” IE4 engine in allege of it apropos a compulsory attention standard. Diedrich also launched a new oxidizer pattern privately for a CR 35, featuring a possess potency and upkeep improvements over prior designs.
Stronghold S7 Pro Roaster
Stronghold S7 Pro roaster. Daily Coffee News photo.
South Korea’s Stronghold Technology made a U.S. entrance with a S7 Pro electric roaster, featuring Android-based intelligent record designed to simply automate and replicate roasts. The insulated, high-efficiency roasters feature a stirring impeller inside a straight building drum, with feverishness entrance in 3 opposite forms — convection feverishness present via a drum, conduction feverishness done even by a interior impeller, and eager feverishness from a halogen lamp, and roasts can be monitored and tranquil from a vast touchscreen interface.
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Stronghold CEO Jason Woo told Daily Coffee News that a 850-gram-capacity spit — that starts during $13,500 — has been a renouned choice in other markets as a emporium roaster, where time assets can be achieved through automated monitoring of and response to bean characteristics during a roast, while minimizing appetite consumption.
Stronghold CEO Jason Woo.
Stronghold is now offered a S7 Pro approach to U.S. consumers from their Korean headquarters, nonetheless Woo pronounced a association hopes to shortly open a U.S. office.
Acaia Orion Bean Counter
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The latest from high-tech scale-maker Acaia comes in a minimalist, compress form of a Orion Bean Counter, a elementary and worldly resolution for portioning out particular espresso or pour-over doses in a café setting, or sell bags of whole-bean coffee in a roastery. A built-in algorithm provides faster management for incomparable doses, hastened or calm by a concealed, motorized auger that turns to kindly control a upsurge of beans from a hopper down to a chute. The measurements are accurate to within half of a gram and are intentionally automatic to error on a inexhaustible side by a bean or two, to comment for millstone retention.
Acaia Co-Founder Rex Tseng. Daily Coffee News photo.
Acaia Co-founder Rex Tseng told Daily Coffee News that in one of his cafes, a Orion cuts time spent on pre-dosing coffees in half. “For one of a shops that pre-doses into containers, they spend about half an hour. This saves during slightest half of their time, so it eventually pays off a machine,” pronounced Tseng, adding that a same outcome would be practical to roasters. The indication on arrangement during a Expo was a prototype, that a association says could potentially be tweaked formed on feedback during a show. Tseng pronounced that Acaia aims to start shipping finished prolongation units in a third entertain of this year.
La Marzocco Strada ABR
The La Marzocco Strada ABR. Daily Coffee News photo.
At a La Marzocco counter a latest further to a LM line done a U.S. debut: a Strada with Auto Brew Ratio technology. With beam incorporated into a season tray, baristas can lift shots possibly in Mass Mode, that targets a specific finished libation weight, or in Ratio Mode, that dispenses H2O according to a prescribed ratio after a barista weighs a dosed portafilter on a drip-tray scale.
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The ABR complement was creatively introduced to a Linea line dual years ago. Now cafes that cite a lower-profile Strada appurtenance can pursue that pattern but sacrificing a latest in La Marzocco’s espresso qualification technology.
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