Jeff Taylor, who co-owns PT’s Coffee Co. in Kansas, was on a buying trip to Colombia last week with his wife, Maritza, when tragedy struck. As Jeff writes eloquently on PT’s blog, “Our Thursday flight […]
Ever since the World Barista Championship was held in Bogotá in 2011, the Colombian Coffee Federation has doubled, tripled, quadrupled its efforts to provide access to education for everyone along the chain, from producer to […]
Yeah, you know, it’s not like the guys from Nuova Simonelli were busy during the World Barista Championship and Melbourne International Coffee Expo last week… nah, they were just the exclusive espresso machine sponsor of […]
Happy one-step-closer-to-the-weekend, folks! And thanks to all of you who played our Humpday Giveaway contest yesterday. This week for Humpday Giveaway, we were inspired by the wretched coffee we were served on the long flight […]
We’re back from Melbourne, Australia, and the World Barista Championship, and we’ve hit the ground running: there are always so many exciting things happening in the world of coffee, and lucky for us, we have […]
Not that we’re over our giddiness from the World Barista Championship (WBC) in Melbourne, which concluded Sunday with the United States sweeping the World Brewers Cup (Erin McCarthy) and the WBC (Pete Licata), but we’re […]
6TH PLACE: FRANCESCO SANAPO, BARISTA CHAMPION OF ITALY 5TH PLACE: NICK CLARK, BARISTA CHAMPION OF NEW ZEALAND 4TH PLACE: COLIN HARMON, BARISTA CHAMPION OF IRELAND 3RD PLACE: WILLIAM HERNANDEZ, BARISTA CHAMPION OF EL SALVADOR 2ND […]
Hometown boy Matt Perger has drawn the crowds today, for sure. It seems like half of Melbourne is here at the World Barista Championship finals. In fact, I just got up to stretch my legs, […]
This is the second time Pete Licata has made the WBC finals. The last time was 2011 in Bogota, when he placed second. Pete has been competing for almost as long as we’ve been producing […]
This is nothing new to Colin Harmond. He has competed ”and made it to the WBC finals ”four times now. The first was in Atlanta in 2009, where he placed fourth; the second was in […]
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