Let’s Talk Coffee

Welcome to the official website for the annual Let’s Talk Coffee, the coffee industry’s largest Relationship Coffee gathering. It has become a powerful peer-to-peer training event, where the entire supply chain of roasters, growers, and baristas gather together to build the future of specialty coffee.

This year’s event in Armenia, Colombia was a great success. Click through the slide show below to see photos from Let’s Talk Coffee 2008!

Let’s Talk Coffee 2008 included a barista training component for the first time. World Champion barista Stephen Morrissey from Ireland taught farmers and other attendees tricks of the trade and shared a piece of the barista culture with all the participants. The barista-focused portion of the event culminated with the first Let’s Talk Coffee Barista Championship and triangulation competition among roasters, farmers, baristas, and others. To see more, visit the Barista Magazine blog about Let’s Talk Coffee 2008.

“Thank you for the opportunity to introduce our country and our coffee growing region to such an important group of producers, traders, roasters, and people linked to the coffee industry.”
- Carlos Alberto Gonzalez, Cooperative and Specialty Coffee Director, National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers, Colombia
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Let’s Talk Coffee (LTC) was founded by Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers in 2003 to build a more transparent specialty coffee supply chain. Today, Let’s Talk Coffee stands as the hallmark gathering of the Relationship Coffee model, a gathering where trusting, transparent, and sustainable relationships are created between specialty coffee suppliers and roaster-retailers. Learn how LTC is a unique approach to the coffee trade from this website.