Michael Phillips, Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, IL.
Chris Baca, Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Devin Pedde, Intelligentsia Coffee, Los Angeles, Calif.
Sara Peterson, Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Charles Babinski, Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, IL.
Mike Marquard, Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Number Correct: 8
Time: 8:00
Number Correct: 7
Time: 3:01
Number Correct: 7
Time: 8:00
Coffee Producer: Carlos Imbachi
Overall Point Leader - Score 90.5
Country: Colombia
Region: San Agustin, Huila
Farm Name: Buenavista
Best of Origin - Score 87.375
Country: El Salvador
Region: Apaneca/Ilamatapeq Mountain Range
Farm Name: El Recuerdo
Best of Origin - Score 89.625
Country: Guatemala
Region: Antigua Guatemala,
Sacatepequez Farm Name: Puerta Verde
Best of Origin - Score 89.313
Country: Honduras
Region: Mogola / Marcala /La Paz
Farm Name: La Isabela
Coffee Producer: Gikanda Farmers Co-Operative Society
Best of Origin - Score 89.222
Country: Kenya
Region: Nyeri
Farm Name: Gichathaini
Best of Origin - Score 85.558
Country: Nicaragua
Region: Mozonte/Nueva
Segovia Farm Name: Un Regalo de Dios
Coffee Producer: Peterson family
Best of Origin - Score 89.125
Country: Panama
Region: Boquete
Farm Name: Hacienda La Esmeralda
Best of Origin - Score 89.2
Country: Perú
Region: Puno
Farm Name: Tunki
Best of Origin - Score 87.563
Country: USA/Hawaii
Region: Ka'u
Farm Name:The Rising Sun
1st Place: Andy Sprenger
Caffé Pronto – Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Koke District
2nd Place: Steve Souphanthong
Social Coffee and Tea Co. – El Salvador Finca Alaska
Tie for 3rd Place: Justin Freeman
Tony’s Coffees and Teas – Indonesia, Sulawesi Toraja Peaberry
Tie for 3rd Place: Keith Gehrke
Coava – Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Koke District
Coffee or Tea Preparation & Serving Equipment (Commercial)
Winner: Diedrich Manufacturing Inc
Product: IR – 1 Profile Lab Roaster
Coffee or Tea Preparation & Serving Equipment (Consumer)
Winner: Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea
Product: Fashion Cups
Food
Winner: Otis Spunkmeyer Inc
Product: Otis Spunkmeyer Supreme Muffins
Sustainability
Winner: Everpure
Product: MRS-600HE-11 System
Packaging
Winner: Fresco
Product: Premium Flexible Packaging for Van Houtte 450g Vanilla Hazelnut Coffee
Educational/Training Products
Winner: VST Inc
Product: Mo Jo To Go
Specialty Beverage
Winner: Torani /R. Torre & Co.
Product: Real Fruit Smoothie Mix
Open Class
Winner: Roast Log
Product: Digital notebook for Coffee Roasters
Winner: Coffee Lifeline
www.coffeelifeline.org
2010 Sustainability Award was presented to Coffee Lifeline, a radio communications project that provides essential information and educational programming to coffee farmers, their families and the communities in which they live. Utilizing Freeplay Foundation’s wind-up and solar-powered Lifeline radios, which do not require batteries or electricity, Coffee Lifeline is intended to be an empowering and sustainable initiative that provides farmers with a vital tool as opposed to linking them to a charitable revenue stream. Coffee Lifeline partners with regional community-based radio stations to produce weekly broadcasts that feature news and information relating to agronomy techniques, processing tips, current market conditions, health, local co-ops as well as a featured children’s story corner. The program offers formerly isolated communities the opportunity to share their technical expertise, environmental wisdom and cultural heritage.
Outstanding Contribution
Gale Lingle
Born and raised in Long Beach, Calif., Gale Lingle graduated from Mills College with a degree in international relations. After a brief career as a teacher for mentally handicapped children, she returned to Long Beach to take over the management of family trusts from her grandfather, Jonah Jones Jr., a prominent attorney in the area. In 1980, she married Ted Lingle and joined two families: coffee and the Lingle’s. Her coffee career began in 1991 when Ted left his family business to become the first full-time employee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). Her role at SCAA became filling in for whatever the association needed. She helped assemble and stamp monthly newsletters; provided registration staffing for many of SCAA’s early training seminars; assisted in the planning, promotion and coordination of the association’s origin trips; participated in many origin trips, assisting the tour coordinator with the social dynamics of each trip while meeting with coffee industry leaders; hosted numerous Board and committee events in her home; maintained communication with many of the SCAA’s international members, serving as a “personal secretary” to Ted; worked the “Help Desk” in the registration area at every conference; and, most important, for 15 years, served as the association’s unofficial “First Lady.”
Distinguished Author
Donald Schoenholt
Donald Schoenholt has been writing on coffee subjects for four decades, enlightening and inspiring the specialty coffee community in its quest for the perfect cup. He was the first to be the voice of specialty coffee on the printed page and has contributed hundreds of thousands of printed words to the cause of good coffee. His subjects are as diverse as a history of the disposable cup lid, cupping the districts of Sulawesi, the economics of roasting your own and the joys of peaberry. From his position as Gourmet Specialty Editor at Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, he led the intellectual effort that resulted in founding the SCAA. As the specialty coffee movement created formal institutions, he became the editor of the SCAA newsletter In Good Taste and founding editor of The Flamekeeper, the newsletter of the Roasters Guild. His words have brought coffee expertise to two generations of coffee entrepreneurs and craftspeople. His articles, reports and commentary have appeared in almost every magazine that has focused on coffee, and he serves on the Advisory Board of Roast magazine. His writings are quoted and referenced in several coffee histories, including Mark Pendergrast’s, Uncommon Grounds, along with several college textbooks and scholarly works, and a new generation of coffee craftspeople and coffee lovers read him online in the Roasters Guild forums, coffeed.com and alt.coffee.com. A 2007 SCAA Lifetime Achievement Laureate, Schoenholt has a talent for articulating the specialty coffee philosophy, and moving the trade spiritually.
Special Recognition
Mick Wheeler
Mick Wheeler has more than 34 years experience as an agricultural economist, specializing in tropical commodities, particularly coffee and cocoa. For most of that time he has worked for the Government of Papua New Guinea in various roles ranging from the Chief Agricultural Economist in the country’s Department of Agriculture to the role that he has occupied for the last 28 years that of Overseas Representative for the Coffee Industry Corporation of Papua New Guinea. Representing Papua New Guinea at the International Coffee Organization, Wheeler has distinguished himself taking on a number of important positions, most notably Chairman of the Executive Board, Chairman of the Promotion Croup and more recently Chairman of the Finance Committee. His position as PNG’s Overseas Representative has mainly been part-time, which has allowed him to take on a variety of other roles, including Executive Director of the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE). Under his guidance, the SCAE has expanded out of all recognition and is seen as one of the industry’s major trade bodies promoting coffee. He has also worked as a consultant for a number of United Nations’ bodies, such as FAO, where he worked extensively in Vietnam and China and the ITC, where he is one of the co-authors and moderators of The Coffee Guide. He is also the author of a number of other major publications on coffee and cocoa.



















