SCAA & Introducing Alex and David

Join us at SCAA! Introducing Alex (CCS HQ) & David (CCS North America)

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Left: Coffee Ceremony at Aragesh Lodge, Yirgalem
Right: Moreno family, Santa Barbara Honduras by Tuukka Koski

Join us at the Makers Space during SCAA

Where we'll be digging into East Africa and Central America with special presentations from Heleanna Georgalis from Moplaco Trading Co. (Ethiopia)
and
Benjamin Paz from San Vicente Exporters (Honduras)

Cuppings to follow each presentation

When: April 10 & 11 from 10am to 1pm
Where: The Makers Space, 92 Lenora St, 98121 Seattle
RSVP: melanie@collaborativecoffeesource.com

CCS is proud to introduce Alexander Lenouval Hansen (CCS HQ) and David Stallings (CCS North America)

Alex started his coffee career as a barista at a bakery serving KAFFA. Having had the privilege of travelling extensively early in his life, which resulted in tasting many different cuisine and flavour profiles, coffee has proved to be a natural extension in Alexâ€™s interest in flavour and specialty coffee has provided a means to explore and dig into this fascination.

In between this start in coffee and working as a barista at Mocca and Java, Alex completed a BSc in Economics in 2014 at the BI Norwegian Business School, represented Norway at the 2013 Brewers Cup Competition and will represent Norway at the 2015 World Barista Competition. Working and competing as a professional barista, along with being a business student, has given Alex very different but valuable perspectives and means of studying coffee. These experiences have led to his move from behind the coffee bar into the world of green coffee trading. Alex is based at Oslo HQ and is responsible for CCS sales in Europe and Asia, as well as the sample labâ€™s management.

David has been working in coffee since 2000. Upon completing his masters degree in classical music, David decided to more fully dedicate himself to his work in specialty coffee. What was initially a means to support his passion for music became the passion itself. When David moved from behind the coffee bar into the roastery, he saw clear connections between the theory, precision and aesthetics both musicians and roasters employ to compose great music and craft excellent coffee.

In the years since finishing his graduate work, David has been helping a number of roasteries get off the ground: Blue Bottle Coffee in Brooklyn, New York; Parlor Coffee, also in Brooklyn; and Passenger Coffee near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. David joined the Collaborative Coffee Source in the Spring of 2015 to lead its North-American operations and is based in the United States.

CCS Offer List: April 2015

Check out what's available including a few awesome end of the season sales. In the next couple of weeks we'll be adding incoming Honduras and Guatemala to the list.

Note to our North American customers: our first New Jersey-bound shipment direct from origin is departing soon from Ethiopia, and will be followed by more direct shipments from Central America. Fall will bring more still as we see direct shipments from South America and East Africa. In the meantime we'll continue doing bi-monthly mixed shipments from our Antwerp warehouse.

Feel free to reach out to david@collaborativecoffeesource.com for more information - or talk to us at SCAA.

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