Addis Coffee Cup #5
The rotation closes at the Embassy of the UK, with the year's results read back across all five stops.
Why this one is on the calendar.
The final stop does double duty: another auction, and the point where the season’s cup scores, clearing prices and buyer relationships are read back as one record rather than five evenings. The room is deliberately wider than the coffee trade. Alongside exporters, unions and cooperatives sit the host embassy’s economic team, development financiers, agri-tech founders, and buyers who came to taste rather than to be pitched. That mix is the point: a lot that clears at auction in front of an ambassador travels differently to one that clears in a warehouse.
How this one runs
- Invitation only
- Hybrid — in room and online
- Afternoon into evening
Places are confirmed through the ECA office in Torhayloch, Addis Ababa. Members are notified first, and the association handles the introduction to the host.