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Durban – Creative Coffee Week was held this week at Durban Point Waterfront, where 250 of the top coffee professionals gathered to celebrate the burgeoning coffee culture across the city
. Local commerce, create employment among young people and share global knowledge about the coffee industry. It is sponsored by eThekwini Municipality, FNB, Selati and Innovate Durban.
"In recent years, at Coffee Magazine, we have been watching the maturity of the coffee industry and creating its own identity, which has allowed us to connect, and we have decided that it is time to celebrate the culture and the fantastic people that make up the industry, while looking for ways to carve the South African niche in the coffee world. "
Among the attendees: roasters, importers of green beans, baristas, Coffee owners as well as international guests to share their expert ideas.
The Independent attended Saturday's coffee roasting competition where some of the country's top roasters were receiving the same string of beans and their efforts were now being judged.
Coffee Mag's Mel Winter said it was great to give backrooms some importance. "The roaster are all from across the country and they are a crucial part.We called it a Shot in the Dark – each roaster gets the same coffee – roasts this same coffee and is now being judged anonymously.
" Roasters are so important in the supply chain. The baristas are the front of the cafe but the roasters are behind the scenes. Lemuel Butler, five-time United States champion Barista, and Ben Weiner, owner of Gold Mountain Coffee Growers in Nicaragua, whose beans were roasted, were put to the test. .
Butler grew up in northern Colorado and started in the coffee industry "in need of a job".
"I thought I would be there six months but then I won a regional competition and the prize was a trip to Nicaragua, that put into context what I was doing, I became absorbed." [19659002Fifteenyearslaterheistheco-ownerofBlack&WhiteRoastersandanenigmaticpresenceintheglobalcoffeecommunity
Winter said the week offered a number of green bean-based sessions and tools for your coffee business ranging from technology to social media and marketing. The Creative Café evening culminates at the Coffee Magazine Awards gala dinner at uShaka Marine World which will celebrate excellence and innovation in the coffee industry.
"We want to give coffee makers, baristas and roasters something to celebrate. ", Said Winter
The Independent on Saturday
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