Amsterdam Coffee Festival

What an amazing celebration of coffee

Happy Easter everyone & I’m back after a brief hiatus of a week, wherein I checked into this amazing coffee festival.

What’s this about?

The Amsterdam Coffee Festival celebrates Amsterdam's vibrant specialty coffee and artisan food scene.

With more than 10000 visitors – from coffee lovers and foodies, professional baristas, espresso bar owners to top decision makers – The Amsterdam Coffee Festival is an unmissable weekend for anyone who loves coffee, cocktails, live music, street food and socializing.

And to my good luck I happened to be in Amsterdam last weekend & loved every minute of time spent at this awesome festival.

Espresso Martini

This is the eighth year in a row and was an unforgettable, caffeine-rich Saturday with free tastings, interactive workshops, good food from the best food trucks, live music and more.

I tasted more than twenty coffees from the best roasters from Europe at the festival. Of course I also enhanced my own coffee by interacting with the world's best baristas & coffee mixologists.

Whether you are an absolute beginner or seasoned coffee nerd, The Amsterdam Coffee Festival is a must attend event on your calendar.

With Diego Cromzigt, Passionate Coffee Mixologist

With Lot61’s Ray Luca

The every energetic Rum Baba

Cupping Memory Contest with Single Estate Coffee, Den Haag

The best roaster from Bucharest - Sloane

Roast Masters Championship

Roast Masters™, the international coffee competition where it's all about the art of roasting specialty coffee. Compiled by the creators of Coffee Masters, Roast Masters™ is the specially developed competition for the best specialty coffee roasters in the world.

This year at the ACF, renowned specialty coffee roasters competed in teams in a flashy, head-to-head, knockout competition.

Roast Masters™ is the ultimate test of skills, know-how and professional competence, where participants were put to the test in front of a live audience and judged by a panel of leading judges comprising Anne Lunell, Koppi Roasters-Sweden; Kris Schackman, Elephant Coffee Roastery-Berlin & Gabriele Limosani, Italian Q-Grader with over a decade of coffee experience.

View from the front row

It was indeed a unique opportunity to watch the grand finale live from the front row which was between Lot61, Amsterdam and The Village Coffee & Music, Utrecht. Championship was eventually won by The Village Coffee Masters after seven rounds of intense competition with their clincher of a Signature Drink : Espresso Martini!