Editor’s note: When Christine contacted me with the idea of writing for Barista Magazine about why she finds it not only interesting and fun, but also extremely educational to judge barista competitions, I was excited. […]
What’s up with Belgium, huh? What’s in the water over there? Something’s happening in that country that’s producing a slew ”ok, well, two, at least ”of folks who can AeroPress like no one else. For […]
Yeah, you know, it’s not like the guys from Nuova Simonelli were busy during the World Barista Championship and Melbourne International Coffee Expo last week… nah, they were just the exclusive espresso machine sponsor of […]
Not that we’re over our giddiness from the World Barista Championship (WBC) in Melbourne, which concluded Sunday with the United States sweeping the World Brewers Cup (Erin McCarthy) and the WBC (Pete Licata), but we’re […]
6TH PLACE: FRANCESCO SANAPO, BARISTA CHAMPION OF ITALY 5TH PLACE: NICK CLARK, BARISTA CHAMPION OF NEW ZEALAND 4TH PLACE: COLIN HARMON, BARISTA CHAMPION OF IRELAND 3RD PLACE: WILLIAM HERNANDEZ, BARISTA CHAMPION OF EL SALVADOR 2ND […]
Hometown boy Matt Perger has drawn the crowds today, for sure. It seems like half of Melbourne is here at the World Barista Championship finals. In fact, I just got up to stretch my legs, […]
This is the second time Pete Licata has made the WBC finals. The last time was 2011 in Bogota, when he placed second. Pete has been competing for almost as long as we’ve been producing […]
This is nothing new to Colin Harmond. He has competed ”and made it to the WBC finals ”four times now. The first was in Atlanta in 2009, where he placed fourth; the second was in […]
Ohhhhh, Francesco. Francesco is one of the people who makes this industry great. He’s been at this for a long time ”15 years! ”and he’s been the Barista Champion of Italy three times. But not […]
Nick begins his performance by telling the judges how in love with his coffee he is — he says the first time he walked into the roastery ”Flight Coffee Roasters, which he co-owns “this coffee, […]
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