Australian Barista Champs

admin

These are apparently being held in the Gold Coast on the weekend of 31st January - other than that, I have only sketchy info. at this stage - anyone with the full details welcome to make a post.

-A

psaigh

AASCA in conjunction with KC Concepts and Epic Attractions will be staging the 2009 Australian Barista Championship as well as the Australian Latte Art Championship, Australian Cuptasting Championship and for the first time:The Coffee In Good Spirits Championship. The national competitions will be held at the Gold Coast Food and Wine Show at the Gold Coast Exhibition and Convention Center on the 30, 31 January and 1 February 2009. Time: January 30, 2009 at 9am to February 1, 2009 at 5pm Map: http://tinyurl.com/8s8b4t

admin

Thanks Ian, that's great - will you be there? -A

psaigh

I doubt it, but there is a small glimmer of chance that I'll head up on th sunday.  At my end there's a lot of stuff going back and forth for my up-and-coming cafe (so sick of refering to it like that!), but if I can I'll try and fly up just for the day on sunday.

admin

Hi guys - have just been sent the 'official' run-sheet as follows: Friday: 10am

DoubleRistretto

seems like they must have been pretty dis-organised. I would have liked to go, but unfortunately it's too late notice for me! dR

psaigh

Just booked everything then and will be heading up on the Sunday.

askthecoffeeguy

Damn... I'm on the sunshine coast til the 29th and I've just come up from down tweed coast way!  Looked into the viability of sticking around to cover the comps but me Mrs has a study module on all weekend of the comps in Melbourne, which means that I'm looking after the kids... Oh well maybe next year! Cheers, Pat

psaigh

For those of you who can't make it to QLD but still wanna keep up to date on the action the whole event (all of the comps) will be streamed live via http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gun-barista-challenge Or if you have the need for something a little less bandwidth hungry, I'll be micro-blogging Sundays events via my twitter account http://www.twitter.com/BarNine Which is also viewable via the blog http://BarNine.blogspot.com Let's all get behind the barista's/latte art masters and cuppers who make this comp great!!

admin

Hi Ian - thanks for that; hopefully see you up there! -A

psaigh

Yeah, I'm sure we'll cross paths at some point, if not just give me a buzz =D

psaigh

Here are the results for those of you who missed it: Australian Barista Competition: 1st Tim Adams (Qld) - by a margin of 10pts 2nd Zoe Delany (Vic) 3rd Con Hara....(Vic) 4th Habib Marbani (NSW) 5th Jessy Hyde (Vic) --there was no public announcement of the scores Latte Art 1st Erin Sampson (VIC) 2nd Habib Marbani (NSW) 3rd Will (TAS, now working in VIC) 4th Johny Pisineli (SA) Coffee and Good Spirits 1st Kirby Berlin (Vic) 2nd Scottie Callaghan NSW) 3rd David Seng (Vic) Cupping 1st Ben Bicknell (WA, now living in Vic) - 8/8 in 1:29sec 2nd Luca Costanzo (Vic) - 7/8 3rd Brian Raslan (SA) - 6/8 Congratulations to everyone who was involved, but especially the competitors who really put on a great show, well done!!

admin

Yes, it was a great event, and congratulations to all the competitors!  The Coffee & good spirits was a pretty interesting addition to the menu. Have been having some technical problems, but hoping to get some shots up in gallery [including some interesting 'behind the scenes' shots] in the next couple of days. cheers -A

admin

as with everything technical, it took a little longer than i thought, but should have gallery with some great pics of the event, up tomorrow evening! cheers -A