THE PETE IS BACK. You know him and love him: Pete Licata, who after winning second place in the USBC not one, not two but three times, won top honors in the USBC in 2011. […]
Huge thanks to the guys at Olympia Coffee Roasters for sending us some very special coffee yesterday: the Angelo Carillo Micro Lot from Ecuador. This coffee, which retails for $17.25/12 ounces, not only has […]
Just hours ago, I arrived from the United States to Moscow ”my second trip to this amazing, beautiful and totally wild city. I’m here almost one year exactly from when I first visited, and for […]
Confession: Stefanos is a really good friend of mine, so this post is personal for me. But anyone who has ever known and rooted for a barista in competition knows that being their friend is […]
Colin aimed high with his performance here in Vienna, and by aiming high, I mean breaking everything down to the bare bones, and reinventing what a baristacompetition performance, and thusly, a cafe service experience, should […]
I was at Water Avenue Coffee in Southeast Portland yesterday for a photo shoot, when who should I run into but Ginger Gerhart of Ghirardelli Chocolate! Ginger told me about a really cool contest that […]
Brent just emailed me about this today, and it’s an awesome thing to share with all the United States coffee roasters out there. So remember the amazing Slow Food event in San Francisco not too […]
Philip Jolley, owner of El Capitan Espresso, San Bruno, Calif., sent me this essay, and I wanted to share it…Thanks for taking the time to put these thoughts into words, Phil. ”Sarah MY INDUSTRY HAS […]
(Want a visual? Check out the 150+ photos from the USBC and SCAA Anaheim show that I just uploaded to Barista Mag’s Facebook Fan Page!) FINALS ROUND 1 Michael Phillips, Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, Illinois. SCORE: […]
Our Nordic Barista Cup trip to Costa Rica has continued to be nonstop — it’s been so busy, in fact, that I’ve not blogged as much as I had hoped to. Please see the April/May […]
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