This award is based on the overall value of preparation and serving equipment in enhancing the quality of specialty coffee and tea beverages in the commercial marketplace (e.g. grinders, brewers, espresso machines, roasters, mugs, cups, thermal pots and servers).

Best New Product -

Company: Alpha Dominche Limited
Product: STEAMPUNK Coffee Brewer

The Steam Punk is a revolutionary coffee brewing system that unlocks flavor profiles hidden by other machines. This system offers unprecedented extraction, temperature control and thermal stability. The Steam Punk brews up to four cups of coffee simultaneously, each cup with unique brew parameters. The machines brewing process allows baristas to serve coffee with precise, balanced and concentrated flavors that surpass brews made from existing methods.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Wilbur Curtis Co.
Product: Curtis Gold Cup Brewer

The Curtis Gold Cup provides the "Golden Cup" standard from a single cup brewer. It's the ultimate brewer for American-style, drip filtered coffee. Like a painter's canvas, the Curtis Gold Cup Brewer provides the operator precision control over virtually all aspects of the brewing process. The Curtis Gold Cup easily augments batch brew coffee programs. It's ideal for non-peak hours to help eliminate waste.

This award is based on the overall value of preparation and serving equipment in enhancing the quality of specialty coffee and tea beverages in the consumer marketplace (e.g. grinders, brewers, espresso machines, roasters, mugs, cups, thermal pots and servers).

Best New Product -

Company: Offero
Product: Coffee & Tea Cups

Offero cups and glasses are the perfect coupling of form and function. The belly, taper and extended back of the cups enhance the nose of your coffees and teas, are welcoming in your hand and are a beautiful contemporary design. Show your coffees and teas the respect they deserve.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Behmor Inc.
Product: Brazen Coffee Brewer

Behmor Inc. has developed the means to mitigate wide temperature swings by providing users with the ability to control brewing temperature settings between 194-208°F. We insure accuracy with our altitude-corrected calibration technology. When coupled with other features, such as pre-soak, full saturation water and manual water release, users will for the first time and like never before, be able to control how they brew their coffee and obtain a wide array of characters in their cup.

This award is based on the overall value of a consumable product that is a beverage, beverage mix or product that is designed to accompany the consumption of specialty coffee or tea (e.g. syrups, creamers, flavorings, sweeteners, concentrates).

Best New Product -

Company: Monin Gourmet Flavorings
Product: Monin Fruit Smooth Mix

Monin Fruit Smoothie Mixes are the easiest way to add real fruit smoothies to your menu, with additional versatility in other frozen and iced beverages. Just pour over ice and blend.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Dr. Smoothie Brands
Product: FIT-Lyte Smoothie Pre-mix

FIT-LYTE is a fresh fruit tasting smoothie with stevia and a white tea-coconut water infusion. We cut the sugar, not the fruit! FIT-LYTE is only 200 calories while other smoothies can pack a whopping 300 to 460 calories per 16 oz serving. With fruit, white tea, and coconut water, FIT-LYTE gives you the antioxidants and electro-LYTES your body craves.

This award is based on the overall design of a package. This category includes any packaged beverage or product.

Best New Product -

Company: Pacific Bag, Inc.
Product: 12-16oz. Natural Kraft Biotre® Side Gusseted Bag

PBi is thrilled to announce our latest stock bag, made from our Biotre Film, a 1lb Natural Kraft Side Gusset Bag with the PBi One-Way Degassing Valve. PBi spent over two years in developing the Biotre Film, including extensive composting and cupping test with industry leaders to verify that Biotrē effectively preserves and protects sensitive products like coffee.

People's Choice Award -

Company: uVu Lid Company
Product: Innovative hot beverage lids

Innovative, patented and patent pending innovative lid products. Hot beverage lids in polystyrene and alternative polymers that will provide sure visual and tactile confirmation to the consumer that a lid is securely "on", seated and sealed.

This award category is open to products that do not fit in any of the above entry categories, are coffee or tea related, but not green or roasted coffee, tea leaves or coffee or tea brewed drinks.

Best New Product -

Company: CoffeeTalk and the Daily Dose
Product: www.coffeetalkpress.com

CoffeeTalk is the magazine with the heart and passion for the financial and social well-being of the specialty coffee industry.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Hood River Coffee Co.
Product: Eco-friendly burlap messenger bag

Eco-friendly burlap messenger bag, 100% profits to Las Mujeres Cooperativa, a roasting cooperative in Honduras.

This award category recognizes products that are coffee or tea related and offer a positive environmental or ecological benefit, excluding green coffee and tea leaves.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Fres-co System USA, Inc.
Product: New can replacement for BJ's Wholesale Club for Private Label

Fres Bag is a flexible laminate of light weight and geometric shape whose square or rectangu ar bottom and flat panels are designed to improve cubic utilization for palletization, shipping and storage. Corner Seal technology maximizes shipping and enhances shelf presence. The package can be produced with a flat top forming a box-shaped bag adding stackability.

New for 2012, this award recognizes innovation and excellence in coffee equipment designed for use at origin. This encompasses field equipment specifically intended for use in growing or harvesting coffee on the farm, as well as post-harvest equipment specifically intended to process coffees at wet or dry mills.

Best New Product -

Company: Cropster GmbH
Product: Cropster C-sar Online Tools

Cropster C-sar for Producers is an online information management system for coffee producers and producer organizations. It's new version expands into accounting functions and product buying workflows (including quantity and pricing). C-sar enables producer organizations to be on top of their business processes: production, inventory, quality control and membership information is centrally managed. A newly designed module allows keeping track of financial flows and integrates seamlessly into coffee buying processes (acopio). A number of reports support easy decision making.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Cropster GmbH
Product: Cropster C-sar Online Tools

Cropster C-sar for Producers is an online information management system for coffee producers and producer organizations. It's new version expands into accounting functions and product buying workflows (including quantity and pricing). C-sar enables producer organizations to be on top of their business processes: production, inventory, quality control and membership information is centrally managed. A newly designed module allows keeping track of financial flows and integrates seamlessly into coffee buying processes (acopio). A number of reports support easy decision making.

New food products are judged on flavor, visual appeal and value to specialty coffee and tea retailers. This category includes all foods, but does not include beverages or beverage accompaniment products.

Best New Product -

Company: Cleveland Organics, LLC
Product: Caffeine Crunch

We take the finest organic coffee beans, roast them to the perfect temperature and layer them in sumptuous chocolate for an exceptionally yummy crunch.

People's Choice Award -

Company: Cleveland Organics, LLC
Product: Caffeine Crunch

We take the finest organic coffee beans, roast them to the perfect temperature and layer them in sumptuous chocolate for an exceptionally yummy crunch.

Winner: Responding to Climate Change: Building Community-Based Reliance
www.theresiliencefund.org

The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world's coffee authority and largest coffee trade association, presents its 2012 Sustainability Award to a collaborative project involving Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, PROGRESO, REDI and Thanksgiving Coffee Company named Responding to Climate Change: Building Community-Based Reliance. This annual award honors individuals, businesses and organizations in the specialty coffee industry that have created innovative projects to expand and promote sustainability.

Lifetime Achievement
Dan Cox
Dan Cox began his coffee expedition at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Starting as a retail clerk, he rose to the ranks of Executive Vice President/Partner in 11 years. During this lifelong journey, he has been elected President of the SCAA (three times), Chairman of the Coffee Development Group, President of the Coffee Kids Advisory Board and Chairman of the Coffee Quality Institute. He has visited 19 coffee-producing countries and more than 170 coffee roasting facilities worldwide. Dan began his business, Coffee Enterprises, in 1993 and its affiliates Coffee Extracts & Ingredients and Coffee Analysts in 1992, and all three companies are still thriving today. In 1996, he co-founded Grounds for Health, a non-profit organization where he remains Chairman Emeritus and is currently quite active. He has taught courses at culinary schools, is a frequent contributor to industry magazines and is often consulted by mainstream media on all things coffee. Outside of the coffee world, Dan was an Army infantry officer, Certified EMT, elected Justice of the Peace and was recently voted into the Norwich University Sports Hall of Fame for soccer. He views his wife Casey and his daughter Julia as his greatest inspiration and his best gifts.

Distinguished Author
David Schomer

David Schomer founded Espresso Vivace, Seattle on April 18, 1988. He began with the concept that caffe espresso is a new culinary art and has worked tirelessly on this beautiful coffee since then. Scanning the Index of Periodical Literature (oh thank god for Google) he was shocked that there was no standard technique available. So that is the genesis of "the little green book" that he is honored for today. " Espresso Coffee: Professional Techniques" is on its ninth printing in English and is also available in Japanese, Korean and Russian by visiting Vivace's website at www.espressovivace.com.

Service to the Association
Christopher Schooley
Schooley believes that essential to acquiring a craft, and the surest path towards a deeper understanding of it is the sharing of knowledge and experience gained. He is the Chair of the Roasters Guild Executive Council and has been deeply enriched by his involvement in the greater coffee community. Schooley sees the Roasters Guild as a golden opportunity for the exchange of ideas and technique, while stepping out of your comfort zone to better understand roasting concepts. Schooley is a coffee roaster who works for Coffee Shrub.

Special Recognition
The SCAA First Responders (accepted by Tim Castle)
Information Coming Soon!