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Barista Competition Judging

By James Hoffmann ⋅ February 3, 2008 ⋅ 23 comments

I know barista competitions come in for a lot of criticism online, and I don’t really want this to be one of those posts. However having seen a bit of both sides there are some things I’d love to see…

Colombia 2007 - Bogota

By James Hoffmann ⋅ November 23, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Back when I was in Moscow Jose Arreola asked me if I would be interested in coming down to Colombia to do some barista training and workshops and to help push up their competition standard. I agreed and Anette and…

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