What’S On At The Edinburgh Java Festival

The adjacent annual Edinburgh Coffee Festival is at the Corn Exchange on fourteen October.

This 3rd Festival volition give java lovers loads of opportunities to sense of savour dissimilar coffees, larn how to brew from experts, together with acquire to know our java roasters together with tea merchants – addition consume swell cake together with street nutrient together with purchase swell java making gear.

The Edinburgh Coffee Festival website has to a greater extent than information on the exhibitors and speakers & demonstrators who'll portion their amazing knowledge. 

Here's the rundown on what y'all tin forcefulness out expect...

There are all the same spaces to mass on to the I’ve already written about. The cost of the Festival ticket is included inward the £60 fee together with it’s an chance to pass iii hours learning from accredited professional person java trainers for one-half the cost of the commons course. And also, piece we’re talking bargains, y'all tin forcefulness out buy a festival-ticket-Frank-Green-cup-combo that agency you’ll acquire a Smart Cup for 40% off together with live on both fashionable together with environmentally heroic ongoing.

The Corn Exchange volition live on converted into an exhibition infinite for over twoscore stall-holders. While the bulk are coffee-related (the hint is inward the bring upward of the Festival), there’s a good for y'all smattering of tea, cake, doughnut together with nutrient stalls to assist y'all regulate your caffeine levels together with other cool stalls such every bit java equipment suppliers who’ll assist y'all brew with the best.

Coffee together with tea stall-holders volition offering tasters together with beak close their sourcing, flavours together with how to brew best. They’re a friendly together with passionate bunch who similar naught to a greater extent than than sharing their cognition together with answering questions. They’ll besides receive got bags of java together with tea to purchase together with receive got home. Stall-holders you’ll come across include:

• Coffee roasters - Machina, Obadiah, Caravan, Brodies, Carvetii, Alfie & Co, Caravan (on the Burr & Co stand), Fortitude, Dear Green, U-Roast and Williams & Johnson
• Tea - Pekoe Tea, Shibui together with Eteaket
• Coffee equipment - Made yesteryear Knock, Coffee Hit and Machina
• Coffee shops - Brew Lab, Cairngorm Coffee, Baba Budan, Tasty Buns Bakery, Burr & Co
• Coffee gurus - Speciality Coffee Association, the exhibitors together with speakers outlined below
• Food together with other cool materials - Company Bakery, Vegware, Frank Green, Coffee Clothing Collective, Jackpot Peanut Butter, Creamed, Keep Scotland Beautiful, Mercy Corps (the festival’s chosen charity),  Alchemy Cordial, Kitsch drinks, The Real Hot Chocolate Company, Coco Chocolatier (on the Burr & Co stand), Rost together with Jones & Son.

There’ll besides live on three areas dedicated to talks, demonstrations together with cupping that y'all tin forcefulness out opt into on the day. They’ll live on low-key, small-scale grouping sessions - reckon the full programme on the Festival website. An overview of the programme includes:

• Speciality Coffee Association talking close how to run a java store
• Roasters Machina, Carvetii, Dear Green, Chipp Coffee Co, together with leafage tea experts Eteaket sharing their cognition close sourcing together with brewing
• Water lineament is critical to how java tastes - Carvetii and Machina will beak through this topic, together with Machina volition besides comprehend filter java styles, ratios together with sensory (sight, smell, taste, touching on together with hearing)
• Chipp Coffee Co will assist y'all sense of savour together with larn close dissimilar stages of roast development
• The Counter team volition learn y'all close how to create latte art
• Environmentally responsible packaging companionship Vegware volition beak over sustainability
• Lisa Cathro from Zest talking close how to back upward people facing barriers to occupation through working at java shops
• Falcon Coffees together with Schulter (Green java companies) together with Brazilian java co-op Minasul volition live on with those running cupping sessions together with hence y'all tin forcefulness out sense of savour together with compare java aromas together with flavours. (Cupping is the technique that professionals all over the globe purpose to charge per unit of measurement java together with that involves standardised steps, ratios of H2O to coffee, timings together with slurping).

Environmental sustainability is a big theme of the event which, with Vegware’s help, volition live on a null waste matter event. The vast bulk of the millions of disposable java cups dished out every twenty-four hr menstruation inward the U.K. are an environmental disaster because they’re non compostable together with they can’t currently live on effectively recycled.

Not using a disposable loving cup at all is the best alternative - either sitting inward together with enjoying the ambience or bringing your ain transportable loving cup together with snagging a discount on your java in many of Edinburgh’s finest java shops. I’ll live on making this discount clearer on my spider web log together with app soon to assist y'all direct where to drinkable swell coffee!

You tin forcefulness out purchase your tickets together with notice out to a greater extent than on the Edinburgh Coffee Festival website and notice out to a greater extent than close the people behind our swell java scene via our Coffee Stories series.

A shot from final year's Coffee Festival