Mr. Coffee Bags at the 2024 US Roasters Qualifiers & Rankings

How was your first time volunteering at the US Roasters Qualifiers, Chelsea?

Chelsea: For me, I haven't been to a lot of these where I was more involved with roasters. It was my first experience being knee deep in the roasters side of things. Its been so fun and interesting to watch the roasters and how they're doing the same thing but they all have such different methods from how they do something like sorting their green coffee and roasted coffee. They're so quick and meticulous at the same time - everything is so detailed and measured and it's so fascinating to watch when you're timing them. Everything has gone so smoothly and we heard feedback from the Barista Stages that the roasters have felt so taken care of and everything was going so smoothly. To give a lot of kudos to all the volunteers and especially to Aaron and Silvana for running the Roasters Competition. And also to Justin from Asip Coffee Roasters. The three of them have been so on top of everything and me coming in not knowing anything - I wasn't fearful to step in to do the time and instructions since they were so thorough.

2023 Roaster Qualifier Competition Rankings

1. Wenbo Yang (Artly Coffee) 2. Tio Fallen (Three Keys Coffee) 3. Hyo Jung Kim (Gabee Coffee Roasters) 4. Tony Auger (Goshen Coffee Roasters) 5. Michael Matthews (Alinea Coffee Roasters) 6. Brian Hensley (Indie Coffee Roasters) 7. Eduardo Choza (Mayorga Coffee) 8. Alix Nathan (Mark Spencer Hotel) 9. Eric Stone (Mudhouse Specialty Coffee Roasters) 10. Steve Cuevas (Independent) 11. Kimhak Em (Paircupworks) 12. Alex Huang (Aroma Craft Coffee) 13. Matthew Selivanow (Kafiex Roasters) 14. Dana Borque (J.rene Coffee Roasters) 15. Mark Kove (White Nene Coffee Roasters) 16. Zachary Steele (Talavera Coffee)