Coffee Kids
Marathoning for Coffee Kids
There’ll be a lot going on in Boston in the middle of April — the opening games of the Boston Red Sox, for one thing. But in terms of worldwide events, there are two that […]
Competitions
Competitions
Northwest Regional Barista Comp & Brewers Cup OFFICIAL SCHEDULE
Hey homies! Can you believe the Northwest Regional Barista Competition is this weekend? Holy tamales! We’re so excited. Our intrepid field reporter Michelle Foster has been sending us chronicles from previous regionals, the Southeast and […]
Competitions
Big Central Barista Comp and Brewers Cup Winners!
Michelle Foster, who is a regular contributor to Barista Magazine, was at the Big Central Regional Barista Competition this weekend in Kansas City. Besides writing about the event for the April/May issue of our magazine, […]
Competitions
Big Central Barista Competition Finalists!
The Big Central is Big Time exciting! With two regionals for the price of one (South Central and North Central) the audience gathered at the event hosted by PT’s Coffee and Kaldi’s Coffee will get […]
Baristas
Upcoming Regional Barista Competitions!
We’re still waiting to hear what the plan is for our barista friends in the Northeast region, who had their regional postponed due to the terrible Hurricane Sandy event in early November. But the Specialty […]
WBC Vienna 2012
Barista Champion of Korea: Youn Joo Yu
Everyone makes mistakes, but we were dismayed to see a big one we made in the new issue of Barista Magazine: we ran the wrong photo in the World Barista Championship ‘yearbook’ spread in the […]
WBC Vienna 2012
Sweet Fantasy Vienna!
Natvia‘s infamous Sweet Fantasy extravaganza ended in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, June 16, but we’re still reeling from the amazing photos, the thump-thump-thump of the dance floor that seems to have […]
WBC Vienna 2012
WBC Finalist #6: Stefanos Domatiotis, Greece
Confession: Stefanos is a really good friend of mine, so this post is personal for me. But anyone who has ever known and rooted for a barista in competition knows that being their friend is […]
WBC Vienna 2012
WBC Finalist #5: Fabrizio Sención RamÃrez, Mexico
Fabrizio is one of my favorite baristas of all time. He’s humble and gracious, he’s courteous, curious and brilliant. He loves the coffee from his home country (which, by the way, has never made it […]
WBC Vienna 2012
WBC Finalist #4: Colin Harmon, Ireland
Colin Harmon is a perennial crowd favorite. And it’s not because a rowdy bunch of Irish folks follow him from competition to competition, throwing green balloons and cheering him til their voices go hoarse. No, […]