Photo from Good Food Awards.
Fifteen coffee roasters in the United States won Good Food Awardswhich were presented last weekend in San Francisco.
The awards program honors not only quality but also companies’ efforts to create a better U.S. food system through responsible and sustainable sourcing and operations. Coffee was one of 16 food categories in this year’s Good Food Awards, alongside other foods such as pickles, meats, spirits, chocolate, cider, fish and oils.
Coffee remains one of the few categories in the competition where a primary ingredient or food component comes from outside the country, which presents challenges around traceability, seasonality and verifying sustainability claims.
In recent years, Ethiopian coffees have dominated the winners’ list. All 15 of last year’s winning roasteries entered Ethiopian coffees, emphasizing the importance of sourcing, not roasting, in the quality component of the competition.
Here are all the winners of the 2019 Good Food Awards in the coffee category:
- Organic Costa Rica La Mirella, Bard Coffee, Portland, Maine
- Geisha XO, Bird Rock Coffee Roastery, San Diego, California
- Special preparation Ethiopia Natural Bombe, Bensa Sidama, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters, Cambridge, MA
- Ethiopia Limu Organic, Caffe Ladro, Seattle, Washington
- Carmen’s estate, Commonwealth Coffee Company, Denver, Colorado
- Ethiopia Guji Hambel Wamen, DRINK COFFEE AND DO THINGS, Truckee, California
- Homemade Beans – Ethiopia Guji, Folly Coffee Roastery, Silver Lake, Minnesota
- Ethiopian “Sayis Books”, Noble coffee roasting, Ashland, OR
- Grow Eshetu, Oak Cliff Coffee Roastery, Dallas, Texas
- Colombia La Esperanza Farm, Onyx Coffee Lab, Springdale, Arkansas
- Mount Kayon, Red Rooster Coffee Roastery, Floyd, Virginia
- Ethiopia Kayon Mount Tarrow, Royal Mile Coffee, Haddon Borough, Fresh Jersey
- Duromine, Spyhouse Coffee Roasting Co, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Ethiopia Shantawene, Still Vibrato, Bend, OR
- Espresso disappointing, Thanksgiving Coffee Company, Fort Bragg, California
Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the Daily Coffee News Editor at Roast Magazine.
