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The winners of the 14th Good Food Awards were named last night in Portland, Oregon, with 14 coffee roasting companies given 16 awards for their high-quality, sustainably sourced roasted coffees.
Portland, Maine-based roaster Speckled Ax Wood Roasted Coffee took home two separate Good Food Awards with two winning roasts. Specked Ax joined fellow 2024 GFA winner Coffee By Design in representing the state of Maine.
Olympia, Washington-based Olympia Coffee was the only other roaster to win two awards. One of those went to the coffee category’s lone blended winner (as opposed to a single-origin coffee), Olympia’s Little Buddy Blend.
Overall, GFA producer the Good Foods Foundation presented 215 awards in 18 food or drink categories to specialty food/drink producers from throughout the United States. Winners are selected through blind tastings with experts in each category. The coffee category has also come to prize geographic diversity, both in terms of where coffee is sourced (global region of origin) and where it is roasted (at least three winners from each of four U.S. regions).
According to the Good Food Foundation, more than half of this year’s winning businesses are women-owned, while approximately one in six (17%) are BIPOC-owned.
Here is the complete list of 2024 winners in the coffee category (in alphabetical order based on the roaster’s name).
Costa Rica Danilo Salazar Finca San Cristobal Natural
Coffee By DesignPortland, Maine
OneGuatemala Finca El Morito
CrimsonColumbus, Ohio
Kenya Gichathaini AA
Sandpoint, Idaho
Tarrazu – Minor Jiminez
Firelight CoffeeAtlanta, Georgia
Panama Cafe Gran Del Val Finca La Fortuna
Goodboybob Coffee RoastersSanta Monica, California
Bolivia Los Rodriguez Select Lots
Goshen Coffee RoastersEdwardsville, Illinois
Colombia Edwin Zambrano
Joe Bean Coffee RoastersRochester, New York
Colombia Finca El Diviso Sidra – Natural Process
Lightwave CoffeeLos Angeles, California
Organic Ethiopia Bire Forest
Linea CaffeSan Francisco, California
Ethiopia Mulish
Montana Coffee TradersWhitefish, Montana
Ethiopia Guji Kayon Mountain Farm – Natural Process
Noble Coyote Coffee RoastersDallas, Texas
Little Buddy Blend
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co.Olympia, Washington
Colombia Amparo Pajoy
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co.Olympia, Washington
Finca El Placer (“Stay Peachy” Sebastian Ramirez)
Peach Coffee RoastersAlpharetta, Georgia
Costa Rica La Guaca Natural
Speckled Ax Wood Roasted CoffeePortland, Maine
Guatemala La Bonita
Speckled Ax Wood Roasted CoffeePortland, Maine
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