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Competitions

Friday Competition Round Up

The Big Central Regional Barista Competition and US Brewers Cup is underway in Chicago today. The event is a combination of the North Central and South Central Regional Barista Competitions. Each region has its own […]

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Barista Nation

Barista Nation Portland, April 17

We at Barista Magazine are once again thrilled to be a part of Barista Nation, a grassroots, traveling workshop and coffee community building organization, which will land next in Portland, Ore., just 2 days before […]

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Coffee Fest

New York City – Next Weekend

One week from today, Coffee Fest New York will be underway. If you’re going to Santa Cruz, Calif. instead for the Southwest Regional Barista Competition, we get that. That’s cool. But you’re still going to […]

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Baristas

Big Competition Weekend!

We’re really excited about all the action scheduled to take place this coming weekend, beginning Thursday, Feb. 23. It’s barista competition buzz at its finest! First up: The 2012 Salvadoran Barista Championship, being held in […]

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Chile

Dispatches from Chile

A longtime professional and personal friend of Ken’s, mine and Barista Magazine’s, Jose Cleofas Arreola emailed today with some news from the recent Barista Championship of Chile! Jose wrote to tell us that this first […]

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Competitions

What’s up, Southeast?

From everything we can tell about the buzz surrounding the Southeast Regional Barista Competition ”which kicks off tomorrow in Atlanta ”is this mutha’s gonna be epic! There are 30–count ’em–30 competitors signed up for this […]

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Barista Magazine

The Feb/March 2012 Issue

The new issue of Barista Magazine is out! (The iMag version is online and live. You can read it here.) And the hardcopies will be hitting the mailstream any moment now. So watch your mailboxes! […]

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Oregon

Northwest Regional Barista Competition Wrap

It was a big weekend of activity in Tacoma, Wash. at the Northwest Regional Barista Competition (and the Regional US Brewers Cup competition) hosted by Dillanos Coffee Roasters. More than 20 competitors sought the Regional […]