Danes Specialty Coffee is the Champion Roaster for 2018

by Danes Info March 22, 2018

Danes Specialty Coffee has taken out the title of Champion Australian Roaster for the first time in the 2018 Australian International Coffee Awards (AICA).

Conducted by The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV), the AICA is the first and only international coffee roasting competition in Australia, receiving 743 entries from 152 local and international coffee roasters in 2018. Visit the AICA website for details.

Seven trophies have been awarded, with three of them going to Danes Specialty Coffee.

Here are the list of awards we picked up this year:

Champion Australian Roaster Trophy
Champion Milk based Coffee - Mocha Gold
Champion Cold Brew Coffee - Ethiopia Kochere
1 x Gold medal
8 x Silver medals
7 x Bronze medals

Here is the breakdown of the Danes award winning coffees:

ESPRESSO, BLEND

Black Velvet - Silver

Altitude - Bronze

ESPRESSO, SINGLE ORIGIN

Yirgecheffe Kochere - Silver

Colombia Las Brisas - Silver

Ethiopia Gelana Abaya - Silver

MILK COFFEE, BLEND

Mocha Gold GOLD MEDAL Capp milk blend. Champion milk based coffee

Black Velvet - Bronze

Inspire - Bronze

SOY MILK COFFEE, BLEND

Black Velvet - Silver

FILTER COFFEE, POUR OVER

Yirgecheffe Abaya - Bronze

Yirgacheffe Kochere - Bronze

Finca Ausol - Bronze

IMMERSION BLEND FILTER

Four Elements - Silver

IMMERSION, SINGLE ORIGIN