Danish Barista Championship, 2010

Danish Barista Championship, 2010

Yet...another year competing at the Danish Barista Championship and a long wish being present as a competitor in London, at WBC again.

Since I started to roast coffee approx. two and a half years ago I have been visiting 5 Coffee Origins meeting the Producer, the farmer and their beneficios - picking berries, roasting coffee at the farms together with the farmer, cupping "I dont know how many cofffees"..implemented new fermentation methods together with the farmer - enhancing coffee flavours by optimizing production, meeting new coffee people as well as old....and have even been so lucky to get fist han on coffee "and developed my own natural AGED coffee" together with the farmer....

Won the Danish Championship, with my own coffee which I roasted myself......"noone has done this so far" in Denmark. Being a Barista as well as A Roaster, sourcing and trading coffee knowing the influence and the impact....

A busy year.....and a statement nothing is static. The definition of "the bairsta way" "direct trade" "Fair trade" for me has more than one perspective.

Today when ANALucia from Honduras, Finca Santa Marta won her National championship - I got so happy that our "new" direct trade succeded and our "new barista way" got another dimension as well....

At my visit to the farm in Nov. last year we agreed to established a transparency/open communication in our preparation for our respective National Championship....hectic but duable....and me roasting several samples send with DHL from Finca Santa Marta packed personally by RAUL Hawitt repsonding on the quality "skyping" taste profiles, discussing qualities and roasting techniques...sending roasted coffee back to Ana Lucia specifying brewing/ratio/best date for espresso brew....for her training with Heather Perry in CA

...Giving back to the Farm....

Now...new coffees has arrived which I will roast for our mutual project "WBC IN LONDON"....and is happy that we both will be presenting the coffee from their farm....

And least,,,,in the middle of my preparation had time to travel to Serbia training the Baristas at Coffee&Factory, who by the way took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at their National Championship. "NENAD won.....

Its going to be great in London....