The World Barista Championship is about to begin (08:30 GMT). I’ll be watching it in my coffee lab (my unfinished basement) and will be live tweeting and crash blogging. The live stream is up here.
Day One Schedule
8:47AM – Agne Dirsaite, Sviezia Kava, Lithuania
9:04AM – Mie Nakahara, Maruyama Coffee, Japan
9:21AM – Alberto Mavorga, ACEN, Nicaragua
9:38AM – Izabela Popiolek, Green Coffee, Poland
9:55AM – Manish Gurung, Café Coffee Day, India
10:12AM – Kenny Burssens, Dennis Burssens, Belgium
10:29AM – Syria Mwanza, Zebra Crossings, Zambia
10:46AM – Nikolav Litov, Ibeco LTD, Bulgaria
11:03AM – Luciano Marcolino, Bar, New Zealand
11:20AM – John Gordan, Square Mile Coffee Roasters, United Kingdom
11:37AM – Mbabazi Robers, Flavours Ltd. Jinia, Uganda
11:54AM – Nadya, Coffeemania, Russia
12:11PM – Goran Huber, Kaffee-Institut Goran Huber, Austria
12:28PM – Sille Kuttner, Restaurant Senso, Estonia
12:45PM – Germany
1:02PM – Francesco Sanapo, Corsino Corsini Spa, Italy
1:19PM – Stefanos Domatiotis, Cafe TAF, Greece
1:36PM – Nenad, Café & Factory, Serbia
1:53PM – Vikram Kashyap, Caribou Coffee, United Arab Emirates
2:10PM – Petre Mares, Gourmet Coffee Sri, Romania
2:27PM – Yara Castanho, Suplicy Cafes Especiales, Brazil
2:44PM – Fabrizio Sencion, 5pm Coffee, Mexico
3:01PM – Ishan Natalie, Company, South Africa
3:18PM – Alejandro Mendez, Café de El Salvador, El Salvador
3:35PM – Michael Phillips, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, United States
3:52PM – Joona Suominen, Café Art, Finland
4:09PM – Scottie Callaghan, Belaroma Coffee, Australia
4:26PM – Chung-Jun Chang, Caffee 4Mano, Taiwan
4:43PM – Soren Stiller Markussen, Sine Kroll Nielsen, Denmark
5:00PM – Stanislav Cibula, Italmarket, Slovakia
