Cafe Kreyol, Lucky’s Coffee, All Day Roasting Company, and oma coffee roaster took the Filter and Espresso titles across the 2026 Global Coffee Awards’ US & Canada and Asia regional editions. EspressoDrop tracks the Filter and Espresso categories specifically, since they’re the closest thing the GCA has to a standardized head-to-head brew comparison; the competition’s other categories (Flat White, Ready to Drink, Specialty Drip Bag) and its overall roaster title are judged on different criteria and aren’t covered here.
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Trude Skjold Løken Wins Norwegian Coffee Roasting Championship 2026
Trude Skjold Løken, head roaster at Kaffa in Oslo, won Norway’s 2026 national coffee roasting championship, NM i Kaffebrenning, on May 12, adding a national title to the Nordics Best Roaster award Kaffa picked up just months earlier.
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Río Blanco, Las Nubes and Las Margaritas Win Costa Rica 2026 Cup of Excellence
Finca Río Blanco topped Costa Rica’s 2026 Cup of Excellence with a Washed Java that scored 91.36 points, the highest mark of any Costa Rican coffee this year, and sold at the competition’s July 9 auction for a record $200.10 a pound. Grown by producer Alejandra Cordero Solano in Copey de Dota, in the Los Santos region, at roughly 1,950 meters, the lot went to a buyer identified in auction reporting as Enwan Coffee, which bought it in two equal portions. That name matches Address Cafe, whose Arabic name, عنوان القهوة, translates to Enwan Coffee; it’s a Saudi coffee chain with its own barista championship and app, based in Riyadh.
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Coffee De Hmong Bio Farm Wins Thailand 2026 Cup of Excellence at 90.50 Points
The top coffee in Thailand’s 2026 Cup of Excellence is a Honey processed Gesha from Coffee De Hmong Bio Farm in the Nan region, which scored 90.50 points and sold at the competition’s August 4 auction. Grown by producer Wichai Kamnerdmongkhon, the lot split between two buyers: Black Sea Corp, which paid $91.60 a pound, and Paper Swan, which paid $88.98 a pound. Neither buyer has a confirmed public shop as of this writing.