Announcing the Crown Jewel Instagram Photo Contest:

Will you be attending SCA in Seattle this year? Are you enjoying our Crown Jewel selections? We want to support you!

We’ve been noticing your photos of Crown Jewel boxes in the wild, and we can’t get enough of them.

So post a photo of your Crown Jewel box in an interesting place or in an interesting situation and tag us @royal.coffee.inc & @the.royal.crown, and we will re-post your photo in the order received, at 3pm every day.  Photoshop skills are encouraged but not required!

The top two photos on our account (by number of likes) win:

  • A 22lb Crown Jewel box of green coffee
  • The opportunity to curate your own coffee analysis with The Crown team
  • Serving your coffee alongside Royal at the Roaster Village at SCA Expo in Seattle, April 21st or 22nd

The contest starts today, and we’ll choose our winners by March 27th so that we can deliver you a Crown Jewel box before April 1st (no joke!). Good luck!

If you need an example of what we’re looking for:

Written by Evan Gilman

Evan Gilman is an avid generalist and coffee lover. His 20+ years in the coffee industry have taken him from barista, to trainer, to Q Instructor, and SCA-Licensed AST. Evan has spent time in Southeast Asia getting to know the specialty coffee supply chain, throughout Indonesia to the Philippines.
His writing has been published in Sprudge, Standart, Roast Magazine, and other publications. You can find interviews with him on East Bay Yesterday, Keys to the Shop, and here on Royal's blog.
As Creative Director, he edits Royal's Blog, teaches certified content for coffee professionals, designs for print and web, buys green coffee from Southeast Asia, and curates the Gallery at The Crown.
Evan's passions range from Balinese gamelan to heavy metal, from photography to communications design, and from baking to brewing.


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