Best Roaster is a peer-assessed, uncompromising challenge, focused on the real-world skills and expertise of the world’s best coffee roasters. More than that, it is a celebration of the hard work and dedication that goes into being one of the world’s best coffee roasters.
Applications to compete in Nordics Best Roaster 2025 are OPEN NOW!
Application Process
Applications are open for any coffee roasters located in one of the Nordic Countries.
Apply by purchasing a spot using the link above. Application fee is 150 EUR. There is an additional competition fee of 350 EUR for the successful finalists. (See rules for full eligibility details)
Ship a bag of roasted coffee to us for selection. (See the rules for criteria for this coffee).
This coffee needs to arrive to us by 21 June 2024 to be eligible for the selection cupping.
Our selection committee of 15+ independent coffee professionals will narrow down the applicants to just 10 finalists who will compete in the 2025 finals at Nordic Coffee Fest 2025.
Check out the 2024 Results
Nordics Best Roaster is a competition that takes place over two rounds. Roasters from around the Nordics apply to compete by sending a bag of roasted coffee to an international selection jury. From those coffees, 10 finalists are selected to compete in the finals at Nordic Coffee Fest in March 2025.
These finalists compete in two categories: The Mandatory Coffee + The Sourced Coffee.
The Mandatory Coffee is the same for all roasters and provided by our coffee partner. This category tests the pure roasting prowess of each company – how well can you roast a coffee with real-world limitations.
The Sourced Coffee is the roaster’s chance to demonstrate their sourcing networks, philosophy and style. A huge part of the final taste of roasted coffee comes from the raw ingredient, so roasters are invited to source their own coffee for this category as long as it complies with a few qualifiers: a region and maximum price per kg of green coffee (20 USD).
Each competitor will roast the two categories of coffee at their roastery before sending the coffee to Gothenburg for Nordic Coffee Fest. There, two members of each company + 4 mystery judges cup all of the coffee and rank each cup from favourite to least favourite. The results are tallied up and we have a winner.
What is a roasting competition without the voice of the public? During the 2025 Nordic Coffee fest, all 10 finalist coffees from the competition will be available to sample and vote on by the public and attending audience of the festival.
Over two days the public will vote on their favourite roaster from the two categories of roasted coffee.
