Rosso Coffee Roasters touts championship titles, highlights competition as a great way to 'learn the craft of coffee'

Often, David Crosby’s suitcase carries an unexpected aroma — that of a coffee shop in the morning.

It’s not from spilling the sought-after morning pick-me-up beverage on a white shirt or an interesting choice of cologne — this smell?

It comes from bags of coffee beans.

Two, three, four suitcases, each “jammed full” of whole-bean coffee roasted in Calgary, were doled out across more than a dozen countries last year.

“Being on the road and saying we’re from Calgary, Alberta, Canada . . . it just felt like a dream come true,” said Crosby, the founder of Rosso Coffee Roasters, who owns the company alongside his wife Jessie Attrell and brother Cole Torode.

The coffee tour

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