The Project Origin team travelled to Melbourne, Australia last week for the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) for 2018, the largest coffee expo in the Southern Hemisphere. Running from March 22-25, MICE is an opportunity for coffee professionals across Australia and the Southern Hemisphere to gather, explore new ideas and of course, taste lots of […]
Project Origin is excited to announce the launch of its new CM Selections range, a selection of the finest Carbonic Maceration experimental coffee lots created across the world in a particular year. The Carbonic Maceration (CM) process was first introduced to the world by Project Origin founder, Saša Šestić during the 2015 World Barista Championship in Seattle. Since then, […]
What exactly is Direct Trade and why is it important? Project Origin founder, Saša Šestić responds to several questions about Direct Trade relationships and how they are affecting the specialty coffee industry, on all sides. What is the concept of ‘Direct Trade’ and why is it important? I think that the term ‘Direct Trade’ has been […]
Several members of the Project Origin team were recently in Ethiopia, working on some exciting new experiments and processing techniques, as well as looking for ways to aid the local community. On this trip to Ethiopia we have expanded on the groundwork begun in February this year. In our previous article on Ethiopia (which you […]
The 2017 Golden Bean Roasting Championships took place throughout a week in late November, with roasters from all across Australia gathering in Port Macquarie to taste, judge and score hundreds of entries across multiple categories. Each year, bronze, silver and gold medals are awarded to the highest scoring coffees in each of the categories; these […]
Australian competitor Hugh Kelly used a coffee sourced by Project Origin to claim fifth place in the 2017 World Barista Championship. Hugh was awarded the fifth place position at the world championship, which was hosted at CafeShow in Seoul, South Korea between November 9-12. He competed in the finals against the national champions of Hong […]
Project Origin is excited to announce the release of dates for the Coffee Farm Experience agricultural course in Nicaragua for 2018. Organised by Claudia Lovo, dedicated coffee producer and long time friend of Project Origin, the course is designed in order to give the participant a precise and deeper knowledge on the journey of […]
The second annual ‘Best of Honduras: Late Harvest’ auction took place from July 24-30, in Honduras. An international panel of judges descended upon Honduras during late July to taste and score the best coffees of the late harvest. 36 coffees, chosen by a National Jury, were blind tasted and scored before the international panel of […]
The International Jury for the ‘Best of Honduras: Late Harvest’ 2017 auction program has finalised their cupping and selected the top 20 coffees for 2017. Over the course of three days, the International Jury made up of shadow and experienced judges from across the globe has cupped and selected the top coffees for the ‘Best […]
With the ‘Best of Honduras: Late Harvest’ auction program for 2017 underway, we took some time to speak to one of the shadow judges of the event: Connor Tigwell. How long have you worked in coffee for? 6 years now. It started when I was 13, my brother got me a weekend job on […]
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, the Ngunnawal people. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
