2010 W.A Barista Competition – Day 1
Posted in Coffee, Coffee Roasting, Espresso, Events, Latte Art
It’s been a huge day today as day one of the Detpak W.A Barista Championships got underway. This year W.A has 16 awesome baristas vying for the title of the states best, and a chance to be flown to the Gold Coast to represent W.A in the national finals early next year.
The first day of competition today at the Mount Hawthorn Community Hall had 11 competitors all strutting their stuff. Everyone competing admirably and doing their bit to further the appreciation of good coffee in W.A.
Tomorrow sees a further 5 competitors round out the barista competition, and the the states best latte artists will take to the stage
to see who can take away the Pura Milk Latte Art championship.
Finally, the who’s who of Perth’s coffee palates will compete in the Fairtrade Cup Tasting competition, a fast paced race to pick the odd coffee out of 8 sets of 3 cups. The winner is whoever gets the most right in the fastest time.
The event is open to the public and everyone who is into coffee at all is encouraged to come down. We have a coffee cart selling $2 coffees made by our competitors, and coffee roasting demonstrations run by local home roaster Trevor Green.
Tomorrow’s action will get underway at 9am and run through til the afternoon, so there’s plenty of time to come along and see what the best baristas in the state have to offer.
Here’s a few shots from todays action taken by Jon Wilson:
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You put on the best WA Barista Comp to date. Well done Matt.
good job with the organising, Matt! :)
Hey Matt,
Congrats on what sounds like a smoothly run comp all round! Can’t wait to hear more about it.
Well done BSD! You rock.
This was excellent – it had the air and intensity of reality tv. Very well organised.
Congrats Matt for making the WA Barista Championships the most successful ever.
WA’s coffee community owes you big time!
Nice work Matt!
I must say, the pictures and commentary hear are heaps better than the ones written on the West Australian last Monday :)