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Competitions

Meet Gwilym!

For the third year in a row, Square Mile Coffee Roasters will be represented at the World Barista Championship as the coffee of choice of the UK Barista Champion ”good news for all of us […]

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EAFCA

Rwanda Barista Championship

I was so stoked to get to travel to Kigali, Rwanda, last month to attend the East African Fine Coffee Association conference and also lend a hand to Sanders and Shane in the production of […]

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Barista Magazine

USBC is here!

Ken and I just got back to the office from the Oregon Convention Center, where we dropped off the official USBC programs that Barista Magazine made, as the media sponsor of the United States Barista […]

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Travel

Busy Days

Wow, these have been some busy recent weeks for all of us, including the crew here at Barista Magazine. I just returned from a two-week trip in Africa where I attended the first-ever Rwanda Barista […]

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Competitions

Two More Down, Two to Go

Two more U.S. Regional Barista Champions claimed their titles this weekend, Katie Duris of murky coffee in Arlington, Virginia won the Mid-Atlantic regional while Amber Sather of AMS in Brooklyn, New York, took home the […]

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USBC 2009

Official USBC Website is UP!

Check it out here. And get your poking stick ready because open registration begins on February 4! In what looks to be some of the busiest days in U.S. barista competition history, we still have […]

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Uncategorized

Live & kickin'

reporting, briefly, live from the floor of the Australian Barista extravaganza that is the National barista competition, the Latte Art, Good spirits and Cup tasting (which i am shitting myself about ‘cos i’m competing) we’re […]

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Competitions

Keeping It In The Family

The amazingly talented David Makin, 2006 & 2008 Australian Barista Champ and 2nd place finisher at the 2008 World Barista Championship, is taking a year off from competing. But just because he’s stepping out of […]