2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

[greenman]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

I was on the edge of my chair watching the live streaming of the cupping final, when they announced Ben had 8 I expected Luca to also score 8 and then a countback on time, but it wasnt to be, congradulations Ben and Luca for giving us such an exciting, nail-biting finale.
congratulations to all other winners and competitors for a great weekends competition.
Good luck in the WBC.

[JamesM]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

is there a results page/site and some archived vid or something? cheers

[jamver0]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

I havent seen full results posted anywhere and cant remember specific orders or anything, but the main results were:

2009 Australian Barista Champion
Tim Adams, Sunshine Coast Coffee Academy, Queensland

2009 Australian Latte Art Champion
Erin Sampson, Primary Café, Melbourne

2009 Australian Cup Tasting Champion
Ben Bicknell, Five Senses Coffee, Perth

2009 Coffee in Good Spirits Champion
Kirby Berlin, Maling Room, Melbourne

Unedited footage from the live stream is available on the Gun Barista videos on uStream as posted earlier.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gun-barista-challenge

cheers,
James

(I hope I got everything right!)

[pberry]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Bar Nine microblogged the whole event from their twitter account, http://www.twitter.com/barnine

You can scroll down and view the all the updates, or you can go to http://barnine.blogspot.com for a collated write up of the placings

[redzone121]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

What is "Coffee in good spirits" please :-[?

[jamver0]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

The Coffee in Good Spirits Championship is about mixing coffee and alcohol.

There is a good blurb about it on the World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship web site.

http://www.world-coffee-in-good-spirits-championship.com/

cheers,
James

[redzone121]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Cool thanks James 8-)

[grendel]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

I had Emanuele of Ristretto Espresso (who competed in the open heats) emailing photos through to me which are online at http://cafe-grendel.blogspot.com. Im hoping someone who was there will come through shortly with a blog post of their own - I know Luca will likely do so once he recovers and Andy should have some good info as well when he gets back.

[first_crack]

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It is an absolute thrill to have Tim Adams as the 2009 Australian Barista of the Year and our inaugural Queenslander to take the AASCA Prize.

I think we should applaud Tims achievement as his journey has been without the historical support of a coffee company in behind him! HE has done this on his own.....He has taken it on himself to to travel to Melbourne to compete in the 2008 ABC Opens for his first ever comp.

He then competes for the 2nd time in December to win the AASCA QLD 2009 Barista Comp. Then he is like the monkey that steels the peach at this weekends championships.

This is why I am a big advocate for the new format as it more rigorous and requires the barista to be more consitent and to lift another gear at each finals stage, of which Tim has executed.

Big props to all the other competitors, it was a tough 3 days.

Peter Wolff

[Thundergod]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

t is an absolute thrill to have Tim Adams as the 2009 Australian Barista of the Year and our inaugural Queenslander to take the AASCA Prize.

Has anyone confirmed that he wasnt born in NSW or VIC?

Congratulations to Tim.
Next stop...the World!

[Dimal]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Has anyone confirmed that he wasnt born in NSW or VIC?

Trying for some reflected bling there TG.... ;D

[jamver0]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Have you heard his accent?

[Dimal]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Have you heard his accent?  

Ahhh.... Nope :-?

[Presso]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

Well Done Tim,

He works for one of the coffee distributors up here

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Nice work!

[Presso]

Re: 2009 Australian Barista, Latte Art and Cup-Tasting championships.

All the winners are here

http://www.aasca.org.au/