It’s bonkers to think that the World Barista Championship (WBC) is one month away! This toughest coffee contest on the planet will take place within the hub of the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) from […]
In early 2012, after being selected by the World Coffee Events organization as the official espresso machine for the World Barista Championship (WBC) for 2012 “2014, Nuova Simonelli launched the first of its kind traveling […]
Our friend Alexander Ruas ”Swedish Barista Champion in 2011 ”emailed me with this awesome photo of the new Barista Champion of Sweden, Oskar Alverus! Oskar, who is a roaster at Drop Coffee, joins Alexander as […]
Just got the official confirmation from Laura Lee of World Coffee Events: the world’s biggest, most competitive, and most esteemed contest for baristas, the World Barista Championship (WBC), has finalized locations through 2016. In 2014, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Everyone and their grandmother likes Raul Rodas; he’s just one of those guys. Actually, he’s unique in how beloved he is in this coffee industry. But there’s no big secret reason for it ”he’s kind […]
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