The ribbon reducing on the 2025 Specialty Espresso Expo in Houston.
The primary two days of the 2025 Specialty Espresso Expo in Houston offered hundreds of espresso professionals with a Texas-sized platform for sensory exploration, tools demos, countless hand-shaking, innovation and training.
The most important SCA Expo but — and the final beneath the Expo title because the commerce occasion transitions to the World of Espresso model — introduced in an estimated 17,000+ registered attendees, in accordance with the organizers.
DCN could have way more Expo protection on new merchandise and program bulletins within the days to return.
For now, right here’s a bit style of what went down on days one and two on the Expo ground…
Judging on the 2025 World Espresso Roasting Championship.
Nico Nino, co-founder of Maven Espresso Co., primarily based in Wilmington North Carolina, experiments with fragrant smoke bubbles on the Correct Syrups sales space.
Elika Liftee, 2022 U.S. Brewers Cup Champion and Director of Schooling at Onyx Espresso Lab, supervises a Wingman Cobot robotic executing a pourover on the Onyx sales space.
A twentieth birthday cake for the Hario V60.
The Roasters Village.
World of Espresso occasions upcoming.
Roasting on a Stronghold machine on the World Espresso Roasting Championship.
Scoring on the World Espresso Roasting Championship.
A graphic show affixed to a Probat roaster.
A La Marzocco motor linked to bike gears and breaks as an instance the corporate’s new “grind by revolution” know-how.
Cupping glasses on the Inexperienced Espresso Join space.
A cupping on the Gold Mountain Espresso Growers sales space.
A taping of The Change podcast on the Covoya sales space.
Drinkware maker Icosa Brewhouse gained a Finest New Product Award for its Avensi Wave Sensory Drinkware Assortment whereas launching a brand new product, the Aeresso Go Aeresso Go espresso cup.
SCA Espresso Design Awards submissions.
(Observe: DCN Affiliate Editor Howard Bryman contributed closely to this assortment of pictures.)
