Dubai: A Shot in the Dark 2023 Coffee Roasting Competition

A Shot in the Dark is a roasting competition presented by Genio Roasters. All competitors will receive green competition coffees to roast. Competitors will be provided with one extremely high quality specialty coffee to be used exclusively for their cupping challenge and two additional coffees will be supplied for the blending challenge. The competition can be broken down into two challenges:

• Challenge One: Cupping - Competitors must submit 250g of the high quality specialty coffee for the cupping challenge
• Challenge Two: Blend - Competitors will have to roast and blend the two other supplied coffee for their best espresso recipe

Competitors are able to roast their competition coffee in their own roaster and coffee roasting equipment. All green coffee will be sent out to competitors at the same time.

• There is an entry fee of $1000.00 USD that can be paid via Bank Transfer or Paypal
• You can only submit 500g total coffee for judging. The additional 23kg is left for you to retail in the beautiful bags supplied or to serve on bar.

This competition will be blind judged by a panel of coffee professionals (Q-Graders + Roasters) based off of a specially formulated A Shot in the Dark scoresheet. Detailed feedback will be sent to each competitor regardless of final placement.