BARISTA CHAMPION OF JAPAN Hidenori Izaki Maruyama Coffee Co., Ltd. Read our interview with Hidenori here. Hidenori comes to the World Barista Championship this year with plenty of experience, including representing Japan and doing quite […]
Hannah Popish Coffee Buyer’s Agent Counter Culture Coffee Durham, North Carolina What other coffee jobs have you had? This is my first… unless you count volunteering at a café called La Taza when I lived […]
Houston Miller Lead Barista Trainer Quills Coffee Louisville, Kentucky What other coffee jobs have you had? Surprisingly enough, this is my only coffee job I’ve ever had, and I couldn’t be happier. What’s your […]
Nathan Hoida Coffee Quality Manager Colectivo Coffee Milwaukee, Wisconsin What other coffee jobs have you had? I began working with coffee in 2003 at Blue Moon Coffee Co., a small Alterra Coffee (the former name […]
Ryan Willbur Marketing, Education, & Coffee Coordinator La Marzocco USA Seattle, Washington What other coffee jobs have you had? My first job in coffee was as a barista for Lava Java in Ridgefield, Wash., and […]
Our friends at Nuova Simonelli ”which is celebrating the final year of its second contract as the Official Espresso Machine Sponsor of the World Barista Championship ”occupied a beautiful and expansive piece of real estate […]
Anyone whose ever met Ryan Jensen knows the guy’s a visionary. After doing quite well on the competition circuit for a while, Ryan and his wife opened Peregrine Espresso a stone’s throw from the White […]
The alternate title for this post could be “Welcome our Robot Overlords” or perhaps, “Resistance is Futile.” The robots are coming after all, just like the steam-powered shovel came for John Henry. In the end […]
I have such fond memories of that sunny, fun-filled week in Portland in 2012 when the Specialty Coffee Association of America hosted its annual conference here, which resulted in the most popular SCAA of all […]
Editor’s note: Don Niemyer and his wife, Carissa, operated Speedboat Coffee in Portland, Ore., until not too long ago when he and his family decided to make a big change: not only were they relocating […]
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