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Our last entry for Roaster of the Year was in 2023, was the last time we were finalists. Since then, we hadn't reapplied, mainly because we were finding our feet under the new ownership. Obviously, it was a huge change to go from, you know, losing your original founders. So it took us some time to, you know, find that foundation and find out who we were under the new ownership. um max actually met the people from Roast Magazine at World of Coffee in San Diego um and they encouraged us to apply um i was a little bit apprehensive uh you know it's a big accomplishment um yeah max handled all of the um like the form side of things i was handling the coffee and together you know just we brought things together and got that confidence and it's you know it's a big confidence booster to make it to this point so yeah hopefully the years forward we'll keep trying and i think um a really big deal too is you know me and andrew both were hired under the original ownership and so we actively saw what was the culture when we started what did the change look like and how was it up to all of us to foster a new culture for Chocolate Fish and I think me and Andrew have just been so aligned in our goals but while being aligned but having very different approaches and so as apprehensive as Andrew was I was just ready to hit the ground running and I think kind of his carefulness and my just excitement was like a really good match it was a really good balance for being able to put out just like really good energy but something that's very thoroughly tested like these coffees were not just things that we threw together even though andrew was saying it kind of had to get that blend in the last minute i mean those were coffees we were already profiling and so it was just kind of up to us to decide what was a good blend to share which you know after presenting that to um roast magazine it's now available for sale the Tatari blend um so yeah i think kind of our balance and how hard we've worked to foster a culture that we're proud of has made this achievement just feel that much more or more flavors as you go all right