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Nordic Barista Cup 2010

Learning as fast as we can!

(Just so you know… I’m posting tons more photos over at Barista Magazine’s Facebook page… check ’em out!) So it has been a busy day of education over here in Oslo! After some heady lectures […]

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Nordic Barista Cup 2010

Day #1 of the NBC continues…

All the teams got up on stage with Jay and David this morning before our first lecture. The occasion? Well, to be applauded for being here, of course. But also so that they ”along with […]

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Nordic Barista Cup 2010

NBC Welcome Party!

After a long, wonderful and super educational day at the Nordic Roaster, the event wrapped simultaneously with the beginning of the Nordic Barista Cup, in a fun party with beer, hotdogs and spectacular views of […]

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Barista Guild

Roasters Guild Retreat Underway

I rode up to Skamania Lodge yesterday to drop in on the 10th Annual Roasters Guild Retreat. As always, there were numerous activities underway. A weekend-long competition pitted randomly assigned teams against each other in […]

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Cafés

Retailing News from SoCal

Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea opened its third Southern California store yesterday. Located in Pasadena, most famously known (to me at least) for being the home of the Rose Bowl, the shop once again shows Intelligentsia’s […]

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Baristas

Dodging Dodgy Coffee

So here’s a story out of Perth, Australia, about how average consumers can avoid buying bad coffee by spotting five simple things in a coffee shop. I like their list – it includes things like […]