Coffee has been bringing us together for centuries! Join George Howell Coffee for a communal tasting where we invite you to bring coffee from your favorite coffee roaster to brew alongside ours. Taste what others in the industry are doing and talk about the coffee community at large.
George Howell was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Specialty Coffee Association of America in 1996, for having raised specialty coffee quality standards to a new level through his Massachusetts-based company The Coffee Connection (1974 – 1994). He had grown The Coffee Connection into 24 company-owned stores in the Northeast, and sold his high-quality, popular coffee company to Starbucks in 1994. He returned to coffee-traveling world-wide, and in 1997 worked on models of economic sustainability for coffee farmers under the United Nations and the International Coffee Organization. This led directly to the founding of the precedent-setting Cup Of Excellence program in 1999; it established the world’s first international estate coffee competition and international internet auction that mightily contributed to breaking the commodity/price cycle for craftsman farmers in the specialty coffee industry.
Location: George Howell Coffee
Address: 505 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
Date: Thursday, November 20
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Admission: FREE