This coffee filter is one of the hardest things to get in Toronto right now
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High-end coffee filters have joined the list of things people are desperately scrambling to get during the pandemic, similar to toilet paper, sanitizer, wipes, and near the beginning of lockdown, baking products like yeast.
It s the latest thing that s been in unexpectedly high demand since so many more people are making coffee at home rather than getting it out at stores right now. If you re a pour over drinker, you might have noticed it s been especially hard to get Chemex and Hario filters.
Coffees for the game’s blind tasting are shipped in 60-gram bags. All images courtesy of Leaderboard.
Putting the “fun” back into “coffee education is fundamental,” a new Canadian-born game called “Leaderboard: The Coffee Game” is encouraging coffee connoisseurship while offering a bevy of prizes.
Leaderboard has been designed as an online tasting game of sorts, with standings and winners every three months. For $79.95 CAD (approximately $63 USD, as of this writing), players receive 10 60-gram (2.11-ounce) bags of mystery coffee with 10 corresponding tasting cards, an instructions card, a quiz card, a sachet of Third Wave Water and electronic submission instructions.
Given access to video tutorials from some coffee industry experts, players are asked identify various characteristics of the coffees such as place of origin, processing method, variety, etc. based on their own home tastings.