Coffee
The winners of the Good Food Award for coffee will be distinguished by exemplary flavor - sweet, clean, well developed body, balanced acidity and phenomenal aromatics. To qualify for entry, roasters and coffee farmers must emphasize fairness and transparency from seed to cup, and be using third party certified organic beans. Once again, coffee is leading the way towards sustainability. View the full criteria for entry.
Committee
Andrew Barnett founded the acclaimed Ecco Caffe in 2000. His obsession with discovering phenomenal coffee transitioned into direct working relationships with the world’s most exemplary farmers and producers. Along the way, Andrew has worked as a barista, green coffee buyer, roaster, World Barista Championship judge and Cup of Excellence coffee taster. In 2008 he served as coffee curator at the tremendously successful San Francisco Slow Food Nation event.
Eileen Hassi is the founder and owner of Ritual Coffee Roasters, a quality-obsessed coffee company based in San Francisco. Ritual seeks out small farmers growing exceptional coffees and applies a seasonal approach to coffee. In addition to traveling to meet with coffee farmers, judging coffee competitions, and telling other people how to run their cafes, Eileen can be found behind the bar pulling shots at any of her three coffeebars.
Tony Konecny began his descent into coffee madness as a barista and roaster at Seattle’s seminal Victrola Coffee and later went on to bend the coffeebar genre as part of Intelligentsia Coffee’s Los Angeles project. He maintains the strangely popular yet infrequently updated coffee blog tonx.org, consults for and advises coffee roasters and retailers, and likes long walks on the beach.
Brent Fortune is the co-founder of Coffee Common and has over 12 years of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Brent was an integral part of the planning and organization of the popular Coffee Pavilion at Slow Food Nation 2008.
Judges
Tracy Allen, Founder and CEO of Brewed Behavior
Andrew Barnett, Founder of Ecco Caffe
Aleco Chigounis, Green Coffee Buyer for Stumptown Coffee Roasters
Peter Giuliano, Director of Coffee at Counter Culture Coffee
Mie Hansen, Green Coffee Buyer for 49th Parallel Roasters
Jennifer Howell, Director of Coffee Sourcing & Development of George Howell Coffee Company
Ben Kaminsky, Director of Quality Control for Ritual Coffee Roasters and US Cup Tasting Champion
Tony Konecny, Founder of tonx.org
Jason Long, Green Coffee Buyer for Café Imports
Edwin Martinez, Producer for Finca Vista Hermosa in Guatemala
Anette Moldvaer, SCAE World Taster’s Cup Champion from Square Mile Coffee
Tal Mor, Head Roaster of Four Barrel Coffee
Geoff Watts, Vice President of Coffee & Green Coffee Buyer for Intelligentsia Coffee
Media Observers
Michaele Weissman, Author of God in a Cup and Journalist for New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
Jon Bonné, Wine Editor for San Francisco Chronicle
Mat Honan, Coffee Blogger for 7×7 Magazine
Winston Wheeler, Northern California Regional Coffee Coordinator for Whole Foods Market
