Roast Founder Connie Blumhardt welcoming the crowd at the 2024 Roast Summit Chicago. All photos by Daniel Mendoza.
Roasters from throughout the United States recently convened at the first Roast Summit Chicago, presented by Roast Magazine, sponsored by Diedrich Roasters and hosted by Firedancer Coffee Consultants.
While Roast has hosted numerous Summits in our home city of Portland, Oregon (and online during the pandemic), this was the first venture eastward for the event series. We’d like to emphatically thank all the hosts, sponsors and enthusiastic guests who made the sold-out Chicago Summit possible!
The Summit featured two packed days of lectures, workshops, cuppings and open roasting experimentation. The latter came to life through an impressive lineup of Diedrich roasters fired up at the Diedrich showroom and Firedancer headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Here’s more from a whirlwind weekend just outside the Windy City.
(Click any photo to enlarge and scroll. All photos by Daniel Mendoza.)
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