Last weekends Glasgow Coffee Festival hosted both the 2017 UK Brewers Cup Final and the regional UKBC heat, which made it quite a hectic few days. The Brewers Cup was held over both days echoing the Worlds finals format. Each competitor brewed the compulsory and their open choice of coffee on the Saturday, with the top 6 scores progressing to Sundays final. They then brewed their Open choice coffee once more, with the final judging taking into account all three scores. Once all of the scores were counted the win went to David Cullen from Clifton Coffee in Bristol! Huge congratulations as well to Jack Henderson (Bonaza) and Liam Maidment (Bewleys) for their 2nd and 3rd place finishes. Refreshingly, the...
The weekend kicks off with the Glasgow Coffee Festival held at the Briggait venue in the city centre. On the first day we will see the semi-finals of the UKBrC 2017 - here is the running order: Name Open Compulsory Liam Maidment 09:00 14:00 Stacey Barber 09:40 14:20 Dave Cullen 10:20 14:40 Josh Tarlo 11:00 15:00 Jack Kiff 11:40 15:20 Diana Johnston 12:20 15:40 Lisa-Laura Verhoest 13:20 11:00 Steve Leighton 14:00 11:20 Paul Griffiths 14:40 11:40 Jack Henderson 15:20 12:00 Doug Higgs 16:00 12:20 Joe Meagher 16:40 12:40 The livestream link will be posted on Twitter tomorrow so if you are unable to make it you can still catch the best brewers brewing. Tickets are also available to the...
Wednesday saw the last of our Brewers Cup heats at North Star Coffee Roaster in Leeds. The standard was again high, and we've seen some significant changes in the leaderboard. Here are the 12 qualifiers for next weeks Finals at the Glasgow Coffee Festival: Name Open Score Compulsory Score Total Score Doug Higgs 77.25 67.83 145.08 Josh Tarlo 77.29 65.75 143.04 Joe Meagher 73.23 68.42 141.65 Dave cullen 73.49 67.39 140.88 Liam Maidment 71.31 67.66 138.97 Lisa-Laura Verhoest 72.85 65.58 138.43 Steve Leighton 68.33 69.75 138.08 Stacey Barber 71.4 66.58 137.98 Paul Griffiths 75.57 60.88 136.45 Jack Kiff 69.06 67.06 136.12 Jack Henderson 71.6 63.83 135.43 Diana Johnston 71.2 64.17 135.37 Full schedules for the Finals will be posted...
Many of you will have noticed that we are not returning to the London Coffee Festival this year for the UKBC finals. A large part in this decision was the timing, The LCF falls square in the middle of paternity leave for our Events Coordinator. This gave us the opportunity to create a stand alone event where we would be able to provide illuminating and educational content alongside the UK's premier Barista Competition. After a long search we have settled on a venue, the historic Passenger Shed at Brunel's Temple Meads station in Bristol, http://www.brunels-old-station.co.uk/. This iconic venue has impressive scale, something we aim to exploit in creating an exciting event that showcases the UKBC finals. The dates for your...
As we enter our Spring break (Our events co-ordinator has a new baby arriving in March, hence a break inn the competition schedule), we have 2 heats of the Brewers Cup complete. The means that we have a new leaderboard of the 12 competitors who are currently in line to qualify for the Finals in Glasgow on the 6/7th May. Open Score Compulsory Score Total Score Doug Higgs 77.25 67.83 145.08 Dave Cullen 73.49 67.39 140.88 Lisa-Laura Verhoest 72.85 65.58 138.43 Stacey Barber 71.4 66.58 137.98 Paul Griffiths 75.57 60.88 136.45 Jack Kiff 69.06 67.06 136.12 Jack Henderson 71.6 63.83 135.43 Diana Johnston 71.2 64.17 135.37 Edward Anderson Brown 71.46 63.83 135.29 Dominik Hurthe 63.12 68.83 131.95 Liam Field 63.1...
