Jaguar Coffee combines production and services to offer an all-encompassing coffee experience in Colombia. BY VASILEIA FANARIOTISENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Featured photo courtesy of Jaguar Coffee For coffee businesses located in regions that produce our favorite […]
We sat down with Barista League’s La Rumba winners to learn more about their experience competing and their dreams for the future. BY VASILEIA FANARIOTISENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Photos courtesy of The Barista League Lorena Villanueva […]
In February 2023, The Barista League will take their 2022 champions on a five-day trip to Colombia. BY VASILEIA FANARIOTISENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Photos courtesy of The Barista League Coffee event producers The Barista League are […]
It was a helluva competition in Bogota. One of the best I’ve ever had the opportunity to cover. And the Finals round was simply out of this world in the level of competition, professionalism, and […]
The first WBC held in a producing country was history making in more ways than one. For the first time the WBC has produced a champion from a coffee producing country! It may have been […]
The final competitor of the 2011 WBC just wrapped up his performance. Pete Licata, US barista champion, delivered another stellar routine, in which he features and explains in depth the process he went through to […]
The fifth finalist of the day, the UK’s John Gordon just wrapped up his performance. While yesterday he went over time by just a second today he finished with time to spare. The theme of […]
Alejandro Mendez, the fourth competitor of the day, set the crowd on fire with his performance. As the first barista from El Salvador to make the finals, the Colombian audience obviously felt a sense of […]
The third barista competitor of the day, Matt Perger, the Australian champion just finished his routine. He featured a coffee from a farm in Tanzania called clouds. The judges’ table had a topographic map carved […]
Miki Suzuki, barista champion of Japan, was our second competitor of the day, and as always she was unflappable. Though her microphone cut out from time to time, she didn’t miss a beat and the […]
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