Coffee preliminary competitions continue in a jam-packed weekend featuring competitions in Canton, Ohio; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Washington, D.C. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Cover photo courtesy of Hala Tree Coffee This past weekend, August […]
What is the perfect music to play inside a café? We explore why music is important to shops and how baristas make decisions on the perfect soundtrack to play for their opening shifts. BY ERIN […]
Glitter Bean Coffee in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is an explicitly queer and trans coffee space. We learn more about the collective and its goals for creating friendly spaces for marginalized identities. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA […]
Held in partnership with events and promotion company Advanced Placement, Pacific Foods’ recent Community Day events in Seattle and Los Angeles brought together baristas and other coffee pros to provide food and supplies for in-need […]
In Part One of this series, we introduced you to café de olla, a coffee drink native to Mexico. Now, we explore how the drink is tied to the Mexican Revolution and look at its modern-day […]
John Gordon is a multi-national barista champion; here he explains how his extensive coffee career has prepared him for competition. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Photos courtesy of World Coffee Events Not a lot […]
Just as the WBC wraps up, we’re back in a whole new competition season! Here’s a recap of the first three preliminary competitions, held in Chattanooga, Tenn., Amarillo, Texas, and Denver. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA […]
We were lucky enough to interview El Salvador’s multi-talented Emilio Lopez Diaz—coffee producer, retailer, roaster, and so much more—for the Master Q + A feature in the August + September 2018 issue of Barista Magazine. […]
The Revelator sponsorship for the 2018-2019 competition season will include application fees, travel funds, prep, and training; the deadline to apply is August 31. BY CHRIS RYAN BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Cover photo by Reed McCoy […]
The Twin Cities-based company is hosting the Minneapolis AeroPress Championship and has reserved half the available spots for women, POC, gender non-binary or non-conforming people, LGBTQ+ folx, and registrants with disabilities. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE […]
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