Macizo Café and DeLa Finca Specialty Coffee were named the outright Filter and Espresso category winners at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards’ Latin America regional edition, judged blind in Houston, Texas on August 12. But Filter and Espresso are each split into subcategories, from Gesha to Decaf, and every gold medal awarded within them is a real, standalone competition win: eight other roasters also took Filter or Espresso gold this year, and we cover all of them below. 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 Dairy and Flat White Plant Based Milk) and its overall roastery title aren’t covered here.
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Sweet Bloom Coffee, Cafe Kreyol, Lucky’s Coffee, All Day Roasting and oma Win 2026 Global Coffee Awards Filter and Espresso Titles
Sweet Bloom Coffee, Cafe Kreyol, Lucky’s Coffee, All Day Roasting Company, and oma coffee roaster each won a Filter or Espresso gold at the 2026 Global Coffee Awards’ US & Canada and Asia regional editions, several with more than one. Both editions crowned golds across a dozen or so subcategories each, from Gesha to Decaf, with more winners than fit into one post; the complete list is on our Global Coffee Awards page. 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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Galani Coffee Wins Global Coffee Awards Africa Edition 2026
Galani Coffee, a specialty roastery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, won the 2026 Global Coffee Awards Africa Edition on June 16, taking the overall title with the highest-scoring coffee in the competition, a washed Limu heirloom entered in the Espresso Single Origin category.
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World’s Best Roaster 2026: Lithuania’s Huracán Coffee Wins Global Coffee Awards in El Salvador
At the Global Coffee Awards World Championship in San Salvador, El Salvador this past March, Lithuania’s Huracán Coffee was named the world’s best roaster — besting 30 finalists from 16 countries who advanced from more than 2,000 sample entries worldwide.