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Baristas from all around the US came to Topeka to compete in this event. Each barista was randomly placed on a team that competed in three separate scored events, each event would be considered in the overall Championship evaluation. This was a mix of some of the main coffee competitions in the industry, and differed from the official World Barista Championships by being a team competition, as well as the incorporation of multiple scoring events. I thoroughly enjoyed the novelty and integration of industry relevant skills that this competition had.
I recently visited Topeka to attend the inaugural Flatlanders Barista Cup, which is a weekend where baristas around the Midwest US (and beyond) come to have a friendly team competition based on latte art, cupping triangulation and the creation and service of their own espresso blend.
Jeremy Ho and Ben Put, both longtime baristas at Phil & Sebastian, took first and second place respectively at the 2012 Canadian Barista Championships, held this past weekend in Toronto at the Coffee & Tea Show.
In this year’s Regional Prairie Barista Competition, our top baristas placed first and second giving them the opportunity to represent the prairies in the 2012 Canadian National Barista Competition held in Toronto, Ontario. Ben Put and Jeremy Ho are no new comers to the National Competition and are, in fact, competing for their third year in a row. After placing in the top four in both 2010 and 2011, we believe these veterans are now top contenders for the gold. After watching them compete each year, we wanted to understand our barista superstars a little better. By asking them a few questions as they geared-up for the big day, we were able to share their personal coffee stories here for you. In return, we ask that you cheer these boys on by coming to the cafe to watch the competition steamed live!
Here in our cafès, we are very excited to re-launch our coffee tasting series this year. We are incredibly passionate about our coffee and cannot wait to be share the different aspects that go into making fantastic coffee, from farm to cup. Now, we understand that our world of coffee can be completely confusing, overwhelming
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March 30th, 2007 marked our first day at the Calgary Farmers’ Market. It’s been an incredible five years of learning, sharing, drinking lots of coffee and enjoying meeting a world of new people. We would like to thank our families, our amazing, amazing group of staff, and our wonderful and loyal customers for an
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Discover&Harvest&Roast&Grind&Brew&Sip&Wonder.
As part of Coffee Common’s slogan and mantra, it also is a simplified description of the steps of coffee from seed to cup. Our incredible week at Coffee Common has now ended. It was truly a great week of inspiration and learning and I hope that we can bring all these things back and inject some new ideas and excitement into the cafés.
This week, Chris and I have been given the incredible opportunity to be a part of an amazing coffee service at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, California, arranged by the Coffee Common consortium and TED.
Coffee Common was founded with the vision of creating a collaborative “common” with a shared passion for education and innovation in coffee. Coffee Common is comprised of world-class baristas and roasters with the collective aim of introducing people to the flavours and stories of coffee by creating incredible coffee experiences and events. Remember the one time you tasted a coffee that changed your perception of coffee forever? Or learned the incredible stories of the people, farmers and families behind your favorite coffee? These are the experiences Coffee Common is hoping to create.
The weekend of August 6th marked the first event put together by the Prairie Coffee Project (@prairiecoffee). This organization is directed by Transcend Coffee, Fratello Coffee and Phil & Sebastian Coffee and its aim is to create awareness for what we call specialty coffee and foster interactions within coffee professionals in the prairies.
It’s fast approaching this year’s Regional Barista Competition hosted at Fratello Coffee Roasters on Saturday. Our competitors, Chris Tellez and Jeremy Ho are in the final stages of preparing for the competition. It’s going to be a great year with some really amazing baristas from Edmonton, Calgary, and more! And not only is it a free event but Charcut’s new foodtruck, Alley Burgers will be there along with some delicious Fiasco Gelato.
I find myself with some extra time in Bogota, so I thought I would try to articulate some of my present observations on coffee production here in Colombia.
While I tried my best to make this post readable by all audiences, in the end, its content is considerably more advanced than our usual blog entries, as I wanted to properly present the complexity of the situation in Colombia.
We’re so excited to be launch a new video series featuring what goes on behind the scenes here at Phil & Sebastian.
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