We are looking forward to hosting SCAE coffee diploma module Sensory Level 1, on the 22nd of March in Marco, 74 Heather Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. If you are a barista or barista trainer wishing to understand deeper what you serve, this is for you. If you’re a roaster or [...]

Over the past few months we have been putting the wheels in motion to launch a brand new website. Over the coming months we will be building an interactive, graphically rich website which will provide much greater support for our partners and customers. We are working with Matrix internet to [...]

Our Korean partners Total F&B featured our kit on their stand at this years Seoul Cafe Show. We thought it might be an idea to post some information on the show along with some photos from the event. The Seoul Cafe Show started in 2002 with a mission statement of vitalising and [...]

Marco is proud to host an SCAE Ireland event this coming Friday 12th October. John Thompson, Cup of Excellence Head Judge, will be running a FREE cupping of the very best lots from the Cup of Excellence selection of this year’s Rwandan and Burundian crops. Attendees will get to cup [...]

It may seem a trifle early to start talking about HOST, the gigantic annual hospitality exhibition held in Milan. HOST can be a long aul slog (5 full days), but we have lots of plans to break that up with, fun, interesting, new things (more on that later). For now [...]

Hot on the heels of Bogotá, barely time to catch out breath and Maastricht, the SCAE World of Coffee is upon us. There was a lot going in on Bogotá, and although there is nothing as big ticket as the WBC, there is even more going on in Maastricht. So [...]

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The World Barista Championships in Bogotá are close. Damn close. So close that a lot of people are already arriving in Bogotá. There is a sense of impending reality about the whole event. So with vaccines in my arms, and Brew Bar Menus in my bag I’m almost ready to [...]

Ground Control To Major Paulllll…. Dear leader, here’s your agenda for Houston: 1. Uber Boiler 1.8 Software This is a bloody massive upgrade. The technical speak version is that we no longer fill the tank by continuous fill mode, now by heat fill mode, allowing us to no longer require [...]

We are delighted to announce the date and location of the 2011 Irish Brewer’s Cup. This is the inaugural year for the Brewer’s Cup and the Irish Champion will go on to represent the country in Maastricht in June, at the SCAE World of Coffee. The date for the national [...]