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SCAA Names 2007 United States Barista Champion

Posted by TheShot on 08 May 2007 | Filed under: Barista

Many congratulations are in order for Heather Perry of Coffee Klatch in San Dimas, CA: Specialty Coffee Association of America Names 2007 United States Barista Champion. Heather entered the 2007 U.S. Barista Championship as a reigning three-peat winner of the Western Regional Barista Competition (or WRBC). Yesterday at the 2007 SCAA conference, Heather beat out [...]

12 Best Cups of Coffee of 2006

Posted by TheShot on 29 Nov 2006 | Filed under: Beans, Quality Issues

In the most recent issue of Fast Company, they named Coffee Klatch Belle Espresso blend among the “12 Best Cups of Coffee of 2006″: Fast Company Magazine | 12 Best Cups of Coffee of 2006. The coffees were reviewed by noneother than Kenneth Davids of coffeereview.com. This blend, the only espresso blend on this list, [...]

Los Angeles espresso: THE FIND – Serious (yay!) about coffee

Posted by TheShot on 27 Oct 2006 | Filed under: Foreign Brew

While I’ve recently found quite a bit to mock from the Los Angeles Times when it comes to coffee journalism, Wednesday they published a series of mostly worthwhile articles about the local coffee scene in their Food Section (“Beyond Latte”). Particularly worthwhile is a quick summary of notable neighborhood coffee haunts in the Southland: calendarlive.com: [...]

2006 Western Regional Barista Competition: Part 2, The Honor Roll

Posted by TheShot on 06 Mar 2006 | Filed under: Barista, Beans, Local Brew

The Petaluma Hot List As I mentioned in a previous post, the 2006 Western Regional Barista Competition was held in Petaluma over this past weekend. Twenty-two baristas from across California and Hawai’i participated in the annual competition — many for their first time. In addition to bringing out some of the best espresso preparation the [...]

2006 Western Regional Barista Competition: Part 1, The Event

Posted by TheShot on 05 Mar 2006 | Filed under: Barista, Beans, Local Brew

A barista championship in Petaluma? Yesterday (Saturday, March 4) I attended my first SCAA barista competition. Held at the Sheraton Sonoma County in Petaluma, the Western Regionals are a competitive prelude to next month’s U.S. Barista Championship. (Petaluma: it’s not just world arm wrestling championships anymore.) The annual Western Regionals covers competitive baristas across California [...]