Glasgow Coffee Festival showcases Scottish city's Europe-leading scene

As it celebrates its tenth anniversary, the Glasgow Coffee festival has grown to become one of the industry’s premier and most popular get-togethers, as Ailsa Sheldon reveals...

Lawson and her small team sold 300 tickets for the first festival and 900 people turned up. “The whole day was just crazy but it worked,” she says. Since then, the coffee scene has flourished and the festival has helped Scotland find an identity within speciality coffee.Catherine Franks from Steampunk coffee in North Berwick says: “We love Glasgow Coffee Festival and are so happy to be a part of it again this year.

"It’s a great chance to meet and engage with customers and other businesses over a shared love of coffee. We’ve visited the coffee festival over the last couple of years, but this is our first year exhibiting and we couldn’t be more excited to be part of it.” The community that has built up around the festival also spills out into fringe events. Last year there was a cycle club, this year there’s a run club.

Today, Scotland has a huge amount of highly trained homegrown talent and their designs will be well worth checking out.“It’ll be a friendly competition. Everyone will submit a coffee. It’ll be judged blindly by everybody who’s entered the competition then available for everybody who attends the festival to taste it and vote for their favourite,” says Lawson. It’s a return to competitive coffee roasting at the festival; the UK Coffee Roasting Championships started here in 2016.

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