If you've sent an entry for espresso and I haven't notified you that I received it; please contact me.

Here are the competitors for the Brew Section.

I'll be delivering the coffee tomorrow at 1:30pm to SM. I'll swing by home at around noon time to be certain there is no last minute mail deliveries.


Dave Arellano dynamiteid
Dave Borton Boldjava
Ed Bourgeois farmroast
Henry Chang chang00
Tom Chips TomC
Marshall Hance endlesscycles
Mark Hansen MSH
Cammie Hill cammie
Hank Levine hankua
Rama Roberts rama
Jim Schulman another_jim
Andy Thomas
Jonathan Williams jwilliams

I'm doing the preliminary judging today and tomorrow; and will announce the finalists tomorrow evening. Finals on Sunday, with the standings announced Sunday evening.

Result of the Brew Competition. The coffees were randomized and cupped blind.

1st Rama Roberts (rama). Congratulations again!
2nd Hank Levine (hankua), Henry Chang (chang00)
3rd Cammie Hill (cammie)
4th Mark Hansen (MSH)

The cupping notes will be posted later at SweetMaria's website. Many thanks to SweetMaria's, Dan, and Amanda!

Nice! Congrats Rama! Killing it for 3 years straight! When you opening your roasterie?
Like last year where I finished 2nd in the Closed Brewing category and 6th in Open Brewing I'm pleasantly surprised with where I finished considering the folks entering. As I said before a ton of knowledgeable/accomplished roasters here, so at a minimum it validates that I'm doing something right I suppose. I guess it shows you the Hottop folks can hang pretty well (Rama and I on Hottops and I believe Henry and Hank are roasting on the 800n. Not sure about Cammie?).

Thanks again to Jim and Henry for organizing and the fine folks at SM. Looking forward to it again next year

chang00 wrote:Result of the Brew Competition. The coffees were randomized and cupped blind.

1st Rama Roberts (rama). Congratulations again!
2nd Hank Levine (hankua), Henry Chang (chang00)
3rd Cammie Hill (cammie)
4th Mark Hansen (MSH)

The cupping notes will be posted later at SweetMaria's website. Many thanks to SweetMaria's, Dan, and Amanda!

Congrats Rama and everyone else!

I love that Rama won the brew category. Since the coffee was a Kenya, and that's his Jam! Would really enjoy hearing about your approach.

MSH wrote:Nice! Congrats Rama! Killing it for 3 years straight! When you opening your roasterie?
Like last year where I finished 2nd in the Closed Brewing category and 5th in Open Brewing I'm pleasantly surprised with where I finished considering the folks entering. As I said before a ton of knowledgeable/accomplished roasters here, so at a minimum it validates that I'm doing something right I suppose. I guess it shows you the Hottop folks can hang pretty well (Rama and I on Hottops and I believe Henry and Hank are roasting on the 800n. Not sure about Cammie?).

Thanks again to Jim and Henry for organizing and the fine folks at SM. Looking forward to it again next year

Congratulations all! I roast on a 1 kilo Torrefattore.

Wow, thanks everyone. This is quite an honor.

I really don't have anything to share on my entry that I haven't already discussed for this year or previous years: 2012, 2011.

As I mentioned before, there has been very little conversation post competition. Let's please change that, I really do want to share but don't know what else to add. What questions do you all have?

chang00 wrote:1st Rama Roberts (rama). Congratulations again!
2nd Hank Levine (hankua), Henry Chang (chang00)
3rd Cammie Hill (cammie)
4th Mark Hansen (MSH)

Congratulations Rama and everyone! The consistency of winning 3 times in a row is amazing. Thanks for sharing your profiles earlier, and looking forward to your blog entry.