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WBC Blogging

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Despite the backlog of other posts I can never find the time to visit, I suspect blogging for the next week will probably be devoted to the WBC.

Having said that I don’t know that I will have time to create the kind of coverage you will see on the unofficial WBC blog over here, which is already chock full o’content.

People are arriving into town, as I type this team Japan are at the roastery plying us with delicious things. Other barista champions are visiting or arriving later today and I hope people get a chance to enjoy both London’s coffee scene – as well as the city itself.

Having done these before I’m coming to terms with the frustrating idea that I just won’t have time to properly chat to everyone I want, that there will be a lot of half finished conversations but I am excited to see lots of people again who I haven’t seen for a while.

I’ll try and update flickr, twitter and here too!

UPDATE: Another WBC Blog.

Tags: Barista Competition, london, wbc
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UBF 6 Video

Friday, December 25th, 2009

I think the most exciting thing about Christmas for me has been time off. Part of that has been having a little spare time to look through the bits of video I shot at the last UBF that Gwilym hosted at Columbia Road. We were all a bit gutted when that morning’s snowfall turned into heavy rain. Cold, cold, heavy rain.

The footage was shot inbetween me making coffee and trying to run things so isn’t very cohesive. I thought I’d add a noisy, messy soundtrack and just leave it quite silly. Thanks again to all who get involved!

UBF 6 – Let’s take it outside Santa from James Hoffmann.

Hope you all have a great Christmas.

Tags: columbia road, gwilym davies, ubf
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WBC Scoresheets – a few thoughts

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

I am aware there is some potential for me seeming like an arrogant so and so in this post, but it really is just about having a bit of a discussion.

It is no surprise that I am a big fan of barista competitions, but having recently gone through the UK judges workshop there are a couple of things I would like to post about and get some discussion going on. First off an issue that both Anette and I find very frustrating: (more…)

Tags: Barista Competition, feedback, judging, Opinion, scoresheets, ukbc, wbc
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UBF IV

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Much fun was had at the UBF last night. I was pulling shots all night, but had my camera with me so shot a bit of video as we went along which I’ve cut into a fun little thing:

UBF IV from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.

The challenge was head to head pour again, in UBF Branded¹ 2oz espresso cups, with 16 entrants battling down to one winner (congrats Brett!). There will be a post on the UBF blog very soon, detailing the results from the night as well as photos too I hope.

Footnotes:

I should add a massive thanks to Gwilym here. ACF offered him some custom cups as a prize for winning the WBC, so he sent them the UBF logo so now we have UBF espresso and capp cups. The man is awesome!! [↩]

Tags: fun, ubf, Video
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WBC Website

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

You are all doubtless going to get sick of me posting about the WBC in London in the coming months. For now I shall just post the link to the new WBC website with the London 2010 design.

http://worldbaristachampionship.org/

See you there?

Tags: london 2010, wbc
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WBC 2011

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Sparked by Cindy’s tweet about the WBC accepting Event Hosting proposals for 2011 I thought I’d quickly post about something I’d love to see: WBC held in a producing country.

Hopefully a few of you reading support this – it would be no more expensive for travelling to than Japan was for most of the world. It would allow unprecedented learning opportunities for visitors and baristas, and a great opportunity for a producing country to showcase its unique capabilities to the industry.

I am very aware that lots of people wanting something like this doesn’t create a proposal out of thin air, nor does it get that proposal accepted – but as an idea, surely many agree this would be exciting and a great progression for the competition.

Would love to hear people’s thoughts on the pros and cons, and any particular country you’d like to see host it.

Tags: wbc
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WBC Thoughts

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I should probably try and post some vague approximations of all the craziness, stress, surprise and good times that was the WBC this year.

So – Gwilym’s performance: I am sure pretty much everyone has worked out that we didn’t go to this competition with the main goal of winning. The idea this year was the same as the idea last year, and the year before that: give an interesting performance that one could are proud of.

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Tags: anette, atlanta, awesome, Barista Competition, Coffee, competition, Espresso, grinders, gwilym, Latte Art, usa, wbc
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