Probably recorded too late at night to make much sense. Perhaps me just worrying too much about us worrying too much about how things look instead of how things taste and the relationship between the two.
So to wrap up my first successful week (which has been both harder and easier than I imagined):
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12 Month Subscription – Square Mile Coffee Roasters
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(Update: Thanks to Poul Mark for his generous offer of coffee from Transcend! Awesome!)
If you are up to the challenge [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Barista Competition, Coffee | Also tagged anette, atlanta, awesome, Barista Competition, Coffee, competition, Espresso, grinders, gwilym, usa, wbc |
My review of my time at the SCAA and USBC in Minneapolis. I was there as an SCAA blogger, but didn’t see too much of the show floor and ended up being around the competition more. Warning – it is a long post with a fair few big photos.
Posted in Barista Competition, Opinion | Also tagged Barista, Barista Competition, Coffee, compak, Espresso, intelligentsia, kyle glanville, la marzocco, ritual, usbc |
Ashville seems to be something of an odd place considering its location. I wasn’t aware of its reputation as being one of the more relaxed, liberal (though I hate the word) cities in the South, but when you get there it does have a very different feel. I also appreciated the rocking chairs [...]
Washington’s event was the first one in a Counter Culture training centre, and I was curious to see how it would be set up. We were due to cup at 10, but first we headed to a place called Tryst for a little breakfast and coffee (thank you David, for coffee and for suffering [...]
Massive congratulations to Stephen on winning the Irish Barista Championship (as well as winning the latte art and the cupping, the talented swine!)
Both Anette and I were gutted we couldn’t be in Dublin to support Stephen, and to watch him win. I know from Tokyo that Jen (Stephen’s better half) is great at supporting [...]
A look back over the last 12 months, and all things coffee that have happened within them (both to me and others). World Championships, origin trips and other competitions as well as other coffee-centric highpoints of the year 2007.
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Mouth!
The voting is now closed and I think we have a clear winner. You guys picked the mouth shot but I have to say thank you to everyone who voted and entered, it was wonderfully silly and I will have to think of another absurd challenge of some sort soon.
So congratulations to the guys [...]
This hasn’t exactly been bugging me but perhaps it is worthy of some thought. In all the talk of “traditional” cappuccinos (let’s not get started again on the absurdity of thirds) there is another drink where the role of tradition is becoming questionable.
These days there is a huge variation in the taste of macchiatos. Whilst [...]
