The ninth annual Brazil Força Café Competition has come to a successful conclusion! Stockler, our sister export company in Brazil, and the coffee non-profit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) do Brasil created the competition — which culminates in a global, online auction — as a platform for celebrating outstanding smallholder read more
The 8th Annual Força Café Competition was again a remote undertaking, instead of several bustling, communal days of calibration and cupping. And still, it was a great success. Winners of the competition — which celebrates and encourages the efforts of smallholder producers in Brazil— were announced Nov. 3, and an read more
This morning, the winners of the 8th Annual Força Café Competition were announced during a live ceremony hosted by NKG Stockler. Women took the top prizes in both the Natural and Semiwashed categories, and several producers discussed what the contest has meant to them over the years and how grateful they read more
The Força Café Competition is a singular opportunity for smallholder farmers in Brazil to show off their best coffees. With the contest now in its eighth year, many of these producers have spent seven years focusing on coffee quality improvements alongside agronomists from the nonprofit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung Foundation read more
