Industry Events
Sep. 6 | The No Foam ThrowDown rises again. It’s zippy, zelly, zestful, and full of vim and vigor!
Here we go guys… the pours from this past NFTD! It’s your vote again to let’s hear it for your favorite pour! There weren’t so many this time, but some amazing ones none-the-less! The voting will end on Monday at 5:30PM. Be on the lookout for the upcoming NoFoam! Pours start on the 9th at 12PM!
Our submission:
Jesus
Vote now.
Sep. 5 | Ricardo!
International competition season has FINALLY arrived! The long wait is over. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your new 2010 Barista Champion of Mexico, Ricardo Cardenas!
Our friends at Barista Magazine have some wonderful event coverage up on their Pasteboard blog.
Check it out here.
Our most sincere felicidades to Ricardo, we’ll see you in Bogota!
Sep. 2 | Competencia Mexicana de Baristas
Watch the Mexico Barista Championship live streaming right now!
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Ken Olson, publisher of Barista Magazine is blogging at the event on Pasteboard. Ken writes:
It will be an interesting time, so check back for updates as the competitions progress, and I will try to post as often as I can.
¡Bienvenidos!
Sep. 1 | This article is part of our special Back To School Week series:
Your Face Here
Well this is exciting!
Barista Magazine and Camp Pull-A-Shot, Barista Guild of America’s West Coast Barista Retreat, are holding a video contest! The prize? An all expenses-paid trip to Camp Pull-A-Shot!! Submissions are due by midnight October 1st!
From Barista Magazine’s Pasteboard Blog:
That’s right: domestic airfare and registration to camp can be...
Aug. 31 | Four Barrel Owner Jeremy Tooker With Pony
This article is part of our special Back To School Week series:
The Mission’s finest coffee roaster, Four Barrel Coffee, turned two yesterday. To celebrate, Four Barrel offered free drinks all day and had pony rides, a photo booth and Tartine ice cream cake.
The San Francisco Weekly had this to say regarding the pony:
“It appears to still be fresh, primarily because of the size of the riders, who...
Aug. 31 | This article is part of our special Back To School Week series:
Tonx Konecny is unequivocally our favorite source for artful West Coast coffee photography, and his latest Flickr set proves why. Check out these gorgeous shots of the newly opened Paper or Plastik Cafe, located in the “quietly blooming” Los Angeles neighborhood of Mid City. It’s another example of the shared space theory in specialty coffee (think Prufrock Coffee...
Aug. 26 | No Foam Throwdown, the first-ever online latte art competition, has a new champion:
Larry's Pour
Larry, he of Brisbane’s Espresso174, is the winner of this week’s No Foam Throwdown dorkstravaganza (presented by DirtyCup.com). Larry’s 7-tiered tulip positively trumped the competition, but our choice for a runner up was the first pour from Jesse Raub, who submitted several photos (perhaps exploiting a gray area in the Dirty...
Jul. 27 | Moon Walk
On Saturday 31 July (that’s how they write it in Europe) from 11am-5pm, Tim Wendelboe’s cafe in Oslo will be serving cheap drinks and kakkes to benefit a project in Kenya:
All drinks are a minimul 1 kr. maximum whatever you want to pay. All the money goes to our drying table project in Kenya where we will fund the building of new drying tables at the Karogoto Factory at the Tekangu coop.
Cool! Start saving your kroner now...
Jul. 14 | Whatta Guatemala!
Auction results are in from today’s Guatemala COE bidding, and the indomitable Finca El Injierto have once again taken top honors. Their 100% Pacamara crop has topped COE tables in 4 out of the last 5 years. This year’s high bid went for $28.00, to South Korea’s C & C, Ltd. This is up from the $22.04 El Injierto garnered in 2009, but still a significant drop from the all-time auction high of $80.20/pound, paid...
Jul. 8 | Out of This World!
The World Aeropress Championship blog has just released the top four recipes from this year’s competition held at the SCAE/WBC Show in London! Yes!
Stian, Jeppe, Marie and Jeff: Read them all here!
