The A Shot in the Dark Middle East winners for 2025 were announced 27 February 2025 at the official prizegiving held at the Brewing Gadgets Experience Lab in Dubai. It was an incredible commun...

This year we decided to do something different and have the A Shot in the Dark Prizegiving at the CMA’s instead of Creative Coffee Week – the 38 roasters have been working incredibly hard ...

We are in Johannesburg this week for the South African judging and the competition is fierce! Things are a little different this year as we have two judging panels running concurrently. One for...

Every year we look to evaluate and improve the integrity of the events, competitions and platforms that we have, and this year’s A Shot in the Dark is no exception!  In the early days, 6...

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR A SHOT IN THE DARK 2023 WINNERS! What an amazing week it has been! The competition has been fierce and we are already full of ideas and updates for the 2024 Season! But...

Name of business owner: Nadya Alkaabi Name of competing roaster: Adeola Peter Akingbade When did your roastery start?  Our journey began in 2023, and while I'm not the owner, ...

Name of business owner: Nasser AlMaamari Name of competing roaster: Nasser When did your roastery start?  I started roasting since 2017 on a Bullet R11kg roastery, i earned my SCA ro...

Name of business owner:  Raha Shahsavar  Name of competing roaster: Sunny Kumar  When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery? Crack coffee Roaste...

Name of Roastery: 48 east  Name of competing roaster: Raditya Andaraga Question for roaster: How did you learn to roast coffee? In the last 5 years I work with one of the best team a...

Name of business owner: Rima Alghanim Name of competing roaster: Rima Alghanim When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery? We opened in February 2022 with the ...

Name of business owner: Mr. Goutham.K.S Name of competing roaster: Mr. Ajeyudu Pathuri When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery? Brewing Gadgets is not a cof...

Name of business owners: Abdulaziz Al Marzouqi – Abdalla Al Hammadi Name of competing roaster: Abdulaziz Al Marzouqi When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee r...

Name of business owner: Mohammed Alameemi  Name of Competing Roaster: John Micheal Sumaragao  When did your roastery start? And as the owner, why a coffee roastery?  ...

Name of business owner: Khaled Sultan Al Senaidi Name of competing roaster: Bogdan Prunila When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery? We initiated our roaste...

Name of business: Refill Roastery Name of competing roaster: Samundra Kc When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery? 2018 A.D. Curiosity & Passion behind w...

Roastery Name: HAUTE COFFEE ROASTERS  NAME: Jonathan Wamala When did your roastery start? Haute coffee roastery started in 2020 with a vision of pursuing the production of the greate...

Roastery Name: Gold Box Roastery  Where can people find you? Al Quoz Industrial 3, Dubai  Name of Participating Roaster: Emmanuel Verola Tell us the story of how your roast...

Name of business owner: Salem Mubarak Alshiba Name of competing roaster: Kenneth Mark Daguyam When did your roastery start? And, as the owner, why a coffee roastery?  We open ou...

Name of business owners: Mr. Ebrahim Saleh A K Al-Khulaifi Mr. Essa Saleh A KH Al-Khulaifi Name of competing roaster: Mr. Bharath Chandagalu Govidanayaka When did your roaster...