Roast Founder Connie Blumhardt welcoming the group on the 2024 Roast Summit Chicago. All photographs by Daniel Mendoza.
Roasters from all through america just lately convened on the first Roast Summit Chicago, offered by Roast Journal, sponsored by Diedrich Roasters and hosted by Firedancer Espresso Consultants.
Whereas Roast has hosted quite a few Summits in our house metropolis of Portland, Oregon (and on-line throughout the pandemic), this was the primary enterprise eastward for the occasion sequence. We’d wish to emphatically thank all of the hosts, sponsors and enthusiastic friends who made the sold-out Chicago Summit attainable!
The Summit featured two packed days of lectures, workshops, cuppings and open roasting experimentation. The latter got here to life by way of a formidable lineup of Diedrich roasters fired up on the Diedrich showroom and Firedancer headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Right here’s extra from a whirlwind weekend simply outdoors the Windy Metropolis.
(Click on any photograph to enlarge and scroll. All photographs by Daniel Mendoza.)
