With Roasting, CIGS and Latte art champions crowned last year, we kicked off the remaining competitions with the first 2017 heats of the Barista Championship and Brewers Cup in Bristol last week.Over two days, Paintworks accommodated both competitions brilliantly with huge thanks to Beyond the Bean for hosting and letting us join in on their birthday celebrations too. The barista competition was hard fought from the off, showing just how high the UK level has risen in recent years. And whilst we don't have heat winners with the top 12 competitors across all heats qualifying for the finals, local pride was up for grabs. The current leaderboard looks like this; Score Callum Parsons 408 Tom Hopkinson 405 Matteo Pavoni 369...
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Its that time of the season, four competitions are in the books and four Champions have been crowned, which leaves us with two left, the UK Brewers Cup and the big one, the UK Barista Championship. Here’s what you need to know: Regional heats are back, 3 for Brewers Cup and 4 for the UKBC Both will be run to the upcoming 2017 World Championship rules There will be 42 spaces for Brewers Cup and 56 spaces for UKBC Tickets will be released 9am Friday 16th December @ www.scaeuk.com To help you plan, here’s a timeline of the heats and Finals: February 14th/15th - UKBC heat / UK Brewers Cup heat, Paintworks, Bristol A two day event, with UKBC...
La Marzocco Out Of The Box isn’t even finished as this goes to press the party goes on late into the evening. An incredible event as usual with talks, panels and a great selection of coffees and even ice-cream. A huge thanks to them for putting it all on but most importantly for hosting both the UK Latte Art and Coffee in Good Spirits. With that in mind let’s get to the matter of the scores… Firstly Latte Art. The standard of competition goes up with every passing year and 2017 was absolutely no exception. Yesterday saw 16 competitors play out the semifinals with Dahn Tamang, Heidi Philip-smith, Don Altizo, Mridul Kalikota, Sam Davis and Kuhna Hwang making it...
With the 2017 competition season firmly underway, and with two new champions already crowned, now seems a good time to look at the state of the competition circuit in the UK, to outline what we as a national chapter have been doing since we took the job on and what our plans are for the future. In the 18 months since we took up our positions on the board we’ve had one aim, to grow the competitions. This sounds more that a little vague, but it encompasses many goals, namely; To increase numbers in the non-UKBC competitions, namely Latte Art, Cigs, Cuptasters and Brewers Cup. This meant a commitment to…. • Expanding the nature of all competitions to include...
