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<\/p>\nCrowds clamor at the Slayer Pop-Up at the 2019 Boston SCA Expo. (Photo courtesy Slayer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Specialty Coffee Association<\/a>‘s annual Expo<\/a> is one of the largest coffee tradeshows in the world. With seven Sprudge folks on the floor, we covered a sampling of fine pop-ups, tech drops, and show floor surprises. All the while, our team covered World Barista Championship<\/a> and Brewers Cup<\/a> over on our sister site Sprudge Live<\/a>. There’s just so much to cover\u2014we’d need a team of 50 to really do it justice! While we were wrapping up Facebooking, Instagramming, Tweeting, and live-blogging, the SCA honored exhibitors of the festival with a set of gleaming awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n 15 awards were handed out for Best New Product in several categories and their Design Lab. The Best New Product Competition and Display are judged on their quality and value.<\/p>\n The 2019 Best New Product winners are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kruve Inc. EQ<\/a>: Coffee Accessories The award-winning Kruve EQ Glassware Line. (Photo courtesy SCA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Four awards were handed to winners of the Design Lab. “Great coffee is often given dissection via great design, and increasingly serves an important function in distinguishing specialty coffee,” explains the SCA. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!<\/p>\n The 2019 Design Lab Winners are:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rishi Tea<\/a>. Design by Studio MPLS<\/a>: Branding Category Blue Bottle’s award-winning coffee cans. (Photo courtesy SCA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last, but certainly not least, three very special awards were given to the Best Booths and the Best Pop-up at the show. For the 10 years we’ve been covering the SCA tradeshow here in America, it feels as if the bar gets raised higher and higher each year when it comes to quality booth design. The SCA gave the awards for all-out best to these deserving three:<\/p>\n Bellwether Coffee<\/a>: Inline Category The award-winning Slayer pop-up cafe. (Photo courtesy Slayer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It was indeed a year of innovation, high-stakes design, and thoughtful execution. The beauty of the curved Kruve EQ glassware. The simplicity of the Blue Bottle coffee can. The ultra-modern yet understated Slayer pop-up. The question on everyone’s lips is: who will it be next year? When the ribbon is cut at the Portland Convention Center, who will truly bring it?<\/em>\u00a0Only time will tell.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2019 SCA Expo Awards!<\/em><\/p>\n The post If You Love Coffee, You’ll Love These Award Winning Products<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crowds clamor at the Slayer Pop-Up at the 2019 Boston SCA Expo. (Photo courtesy Slayer) The Specialty Coffee Association‘s annual Expo is one of the largest coffee tradeshows in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[63,27,65,33,61,32,59,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBellwether Coffee<\/a>: Commercial Coffee or Tea Preparation & Serving Equipment
\nBreville Barista Pro Model BES 878<\/a>: Consumer Coffee or Tea Preparation & Serving Equipment – Electrical
\nCaf\u00e9lat Robot Espresso Maker<\/a>: Consumer Coffee or Tea Preparation & Serving Equipment – Non-Electrical
\nCometeer Coffee Capsule<\/a>: Open Class
\nSteeped Coffee S-101<\/a>: Packaging
\n1883 Maison Routin<\/a> elixirs d’ exception ~ truffle: Specialty Beverage Flavor Additive
\nGhirardelli Sweet Ground Powder<\/a>: Specialty Beverage Flavor Additive (Honorable Mention)
\nDona Chai Spiced Soda Pink Peppercorn Lemon<\/a>: Specialty Beverage Stand Alone
\niFinca Coffee Chain<\/a>: Technology
\nTierra Nueva Nudge Coffee Butter<\/a>: Food<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2019\/04\/sca-award-winners-sprudge-05-1170x780.jpg\")
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\nGreater Goods Coffee Roasters<\/a>. Design by Michael Hsu Office of Architecture<\/a>: Spaces
\nBlue Bottle Coffee Can<\/a>. Design by Elaine Fong and Neil Day: Packaging
\nKRUVE EQ Glassware Line by KRUVE Inc<\/a>. Design by Michael Vecchiarelli: Vessels<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2019\/04\/sca-award-winners-sprudge-02-1170x780.jpg\")
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\nAnacaf\u00e9<\/a>\/Guatemala: Island Category
\nSlayer Espresso<\/a>: Pop-up Category<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2019\/04\/sca-award-winners-sprudge-01-1170x747.jpg\")
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