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How it works Recommendation Flow
TYPICA’s community managers visit roasteries and experience the quality of their coffees and customer service as well as the overall ambience of the space. The community managers pick roasteries whom they want to recommend on behalf of TYPICA.
September 14, 2022
Special Nominators pick one roastery in each of the 7 areas below, based on roasters’ presentations.
TYPICA’s Quality Control team checks the quality of the nominees’ coffee.
- Areas: Hokkaido/Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu/Okinawa
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- •One-star roasters are asked to send a video of their presentation in which they share their stories.
- •Special Nominators consist of prominent coffee lovers from various fields, coffee roasters, and coffee producers around the world.
- •Special Nominators make their picks based on such criteria as roasters’ ambitions, how they started out in coffee, what they are passionate about, how entertaining they are, and their efforts toward sustainability.
- •The selection process is due to run from late September to early October, 2022.
October 7, 2022
TYPICA GUIDE 2023
Final Round
Announcement of Results@SCAJ Stage on October 13, 2022
We are going to hold “TYPICA GUIDE Final Round” at Tokyo Big Sight (SCAJ Stage) on October 13, 2022. 7 two-star roasters from 7 areas will each give a presentation and brewing session on the stage. Visitors at the venue get to pick their recommendation. In addition to the Special Nominators, coffee producers and roasters from 20 countries will also be taking part. The result of online voting, which will be open until the day of the event, also counts toward the final tally. Of the 7 nominees, 1 roaster will be awarded 3 stars.
※Final Round will be live-streamed globally.
Online Voting & Live-streaming
TYPICA GUIDE is created by all the coffee lovers. Join online voting for the Final Round and make your pick for the three-star roaster.
Details to be announced on the website on September 30
Special Guests TYPICA GUIDE Special Nominators
Special Nominators are a panel of coffee producers, roasters and prominent coffee lovers from various fields.
They will be at the venue of Final Round, too.
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Business
Founder and Executive Chairperson of DeNA Co., Ltd.Namba joined consulting firm McKinsey & Company in 1986. After earning a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1990, she was appointed as Partner (executive) at McKinsey & Company in 1996. She founded DeNA in 1999, and now serves as Executive Chairperson. She became the owner of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars professional baseball team in 2015. She is the author of “Bukakko Keiei,” among other books.
Tomoko Namba
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Food and Beverage Industry
Owner Chef of QuintessenceKishida was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1974. After training at multiple restaurants in Japan and France, he further honed his craft under the tutelage of Pascal Barbot, chef at Astrance in Paris. After returning to Japan, Kishida opened Quintessence in May 2006. The restaurant was awarded three stars in MICHELIN Guide Tokyo 2008, published in 2007, and has won the accolade every year since.
Shuzo Kishida
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Music
Hip hop artistKREVA made a solo major-label debut with a single titled “Neiro” in 2004. Throughout his career, he has always blazed a new trail for solo hip hop artists. He also makes songs for various artists and produces other musicians’ works. He does everything himself, from writing lyrics, composing music, track making, rapping, and producing other artists’ songs. KREVA is one of the most important figures in Japan’s music scene.
KREVA
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Media
Executive editor and director of sustainability at WWDJAPANA native of Yokohama City, Muko graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University and started her career at EDWIN. She joined INFAS Publications in 1999. As a journalist, she mainly reported on fashion weeks in Paris, Milan, New York and Tokyo. She served as editor-in-chief of WWDJAPAN, a fashion and beauty trade journal. She has been in her current post since April 2021.
Chizuru Muko
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Media
Founder and editor-in-chief of StandartMichal Molcan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Standart, an independent print magazine about specialty coffee. With a dedicated readership spread across 83 countries, Standart is a Climate Neutral certified business. It was awarded 2021 Best Coffee Magazine and featured in Forbes, Eater and the New York Magazine.
Michal Molcan
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Coffee
Founder / CEO of Rockbern Coffee GroupPeter is an economics graduate from the University of Nairobi. He is also a trained accountant from Strathmore University. His love and passion for coffee can only be traced to his childhood, whereas he grew up in a coffee growing family. A book fiend and an ardent disciple to the Bushido creed. He loves simplicity and mobility. A proud dad and a loving husband.
Peter Muchiri
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Coffee
Java Frinsa EstateBased in Indonesia. Graduated from IPB University with a degree in Mechanical and Biosystem Engineering. A grandson of a farmer and a son of a farmer, Fikri aspired to be a farmer himself since his childhood. He started growing coffee at the family farm Java Frinsa Estate in 2011 and processing coffee in 2014 (first harvest). In 2016, he began coffee exporting, and the year after, started coffee cupping training. His expertise is focused on cultivation and management of Arabica coffee plantations and Arabica coffee processing.
Fikri Raihan Hakim
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Coffee
Founder & Director of Primavera CoffeeBorn and raised in Guatemala, Nadine spent much of her childhood on her family’s coffee farm. After studying and working in finance in the UK, she started working in coffee in 2012. Realizing the potential in the specialty coffee market, she returned to Guatemala to work on her family’s farm with coffees from other producers. In 2013, she founded Third Wave Coffee Source Ltd., now Primavera Coffee, to connect the best coffees from Guatemala to roasters in Europe and North America. Nadine is a Certified Q Grader and Q Processor.
Nadine Rasch
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Coffee
Co-founder of TYPICAYamada is a co-founder of TYPICA. She is in charge of communication with coffee producers and quality control. After falling in love with coffee when she was a university student, she aspired to work closely with coffee origins. She co-founded TYPICA after accumulating experience as a roaster and working at a coffee start-up.
Ayane Yamada
About TYPICA
TYPICA is an online platform connecting coffee producers and roasters around the world to directly trade green coffee.
Headquartered in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Europe, we have around 3,000 registered roasters. This year, we plan to offer coffee from 32 countries. Our purpose is to improve the sustainability of delicious coffee. We are cultivating a new world of coffee with all the coffee lovers.
Go to the official website