DATES-TBA soon!

So just who does make the best cup of coffee in Austin? The Austin Coffee showdown kicks off on September 1, 2010. This will be a four week competition that will begin with 64 coffee shops competing for the first annual trophy. In order to determine just who brews the best cup of drip coffee we will be conducting blind tastings led by carefully selected judges. Throughout the weeks coffee shops will be going head to head for the recognition of producing the best coffee in Austin. We will be crowning the maker of Austin’s best cup of coffee with the first annual trophy.

All the coffee tastings will be in the morning from 7 am to 9 am at a location to be determined in Austin, Texas.  This event will be open to the public and will provide a place to meet and mingle with the Austin community. Although the public will not be actually taking place in the judging, they will have the opportunity to participate and sample the coffee from all 16 entrants. We will provide a ballot for you to predict who the final four will be and will be giving away prizes to the closest predictor of the competition.

The competitors will come from North, South, East and West Austin.  Each coffee shop will bring enough coffee, freshly brewed for the Judges and the studio audience.  The tastings will be webcast live and pushed out to Youtube, Itunes, and at least 20 other video sites.  The winners will be announced in front of the studio audience streaming live as well as on this website and will receive a banner to hang in their shop.

Sixteen days.  64 teams. 1 winner. At the end of September 2010 we’ll know who makes the best cup of coffee in Austin, Texas.

Contact us about entering the competition or sponsoring the event.

WE LOVE COFFEE from FRANK on Vimeo.

We just heard about this guy today from Tim Bramer at Texas Coworking, so we’re definitely inviting him to the Coffee Showdown. Tim practically fell over praising his talents and we are going to head over to Frank tomorrow to see if they live up to the Bramer hype!