NSW Championships - interested in competing?

[yeeza]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

ACT & NSW Barista/Latte Art Championships
When: Saturday Jan 10th, 2009
Time: 10am - 5pm
Where: Retail Food Group training facility - 9 Ferngrove Place, South Granville
Contact: nswbarista@aasca.com

ACT & NSW Cup Tasting Championships
When: Thursday Jan 8th, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8:30pm
Where: Retail Food Group training facility - 9 Ferngrove Place, South Granville
Contact: mick@aasca.com

[PeteF]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

Bummer, after all that I wont be in town anyway Maybe next year.

Good luck to those competing!

Pete

[Dennis]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?


So, how did the Cupping Comp go?

[mwatt]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

So, how did the Cupping Comp go?

It didnt. Insufficient entries.

[fringe_dweller]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

Excuse my ignorance - what exactly is invilved in a cupping comp? Are the people doing the cupping themselves judged on their ability to identify varieties?

Grant

[Thundergod]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

From memory as described by a former Aussie Cupping Champ IIRC.

You get given a series of 3 cups of coffee to taste and you have to pick the odd one out.

Your choice how you select. Taste, smell or toss a coin.
I think theres a time limit and the winner is the one that gets the most correct answers.

[yeeza]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

Yeha I triangular setup. 8 sets off coffee in groups of 3. One in each group is the odd one out. Just gotta pick it out. If its a tie, it goes by time. So speed and accuracy are key.

[Thundergod]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

I wonder if I could be lucky enough to win by choosing with the tossing a coin method?

[Koffee_Kosmo]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

I wonder if I could be lucky enough to win by choosing with the tossing a coin method?

I would say the odds are in your favour TG

KK

[mwatt]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

Youve got a three-sided coin? :P

Seriously though, be great if people would put their hands up to enter so a NSW comp could go ahead.

[Thundergod]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

Good point Michelle.

The easy way around that problem is to use a die and allocate 2 numbers to each cup.

[yeeza]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

NSW Barista Comp results:

1st - Habib Maarbani
2nd - Paul Asquith
3rd - Sam Sgambellone

Well done to these guys. (Excuse me if the spellings are incorrect).

I cant remember the results for ACT exactly, but theres a start My brain is too fried from too many coffees. Good stuff on the ACT guys making it all the way over to Sydney.

YeeZa

[tyeoman]

Re: NSW Championships - interested in competing?

following on from yeeza:

Congratulations to all who competed, especially the following:

2009 DETPAK NSW Barista Championship
1st Habib Maarbani
2nd Paul Asquith
3rd Sam Sgambellone

2009 DETPAK ACT Barista Art Championship
1st Sasa Sestic
2nd Jack Scheeren
3rd Aaron Howman

2009 NSW/ACT Latte Art Championship
1st Angus Mackie (ACT)
2nd Habib Maarbani (NSW)
3rd Aaron Howman (ACT)

Well done to all competitors
Look forward to the 2009 DETPAK National Barista Championships on the Gold Coast 29th January