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A little delayed, but here are some thoughts after working as a barista during the “Microsoft-dagene” – conference last week.

The idea of having a small coffee bar in Exense’s (company I work for) booth was mine. I believed it would draw a nice crowd. And it did. We even got several repeat visitors, some of [...]

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VOA News – Baristas Do Battle in Seattle for the Best Specialty Coffee (MP3 audio)

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Last year I wrote a post about the sad state of the WBC homepage, and other big official (coffee related) websites. The potential is huge. How about up to date scores and comments, pictures, blogs, live streaming etc. etc. The state of affairs however is sad. The only thing they’ve managed to do on the [...]

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Head over to God Shot to read Malachi’s thoughts about today’s espresso grinders and how they can be improved.
I found this paragraph particularly interesting :
“With any of the grinders used in the booth (and the other two top tier options out there) the coffee is coming out of the grinder hot to the touch after [...]

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Heh, I like my job. One minute I am programming HTML/CSS and the like, and then I am brewing espressi. I am going to work as a barista during “Microsoft-dagene” next week. It is a microsoft conference in downtown Oslo. We’re leasing a machine and grinder from Temperato. It’s a Rancilio classe 8 2grp machine [...]

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Head over to alistair.coffeed.com to see Alistair’s pictures from Seattle.

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Very interesting thread about under/over dosage over on the barista guild board. During the SCAA, various top baristi took turns brewing espresso for the spectators and other baristi (”Jamming with the champs”). As they were all using the same type of machine, grinder and coffee, Trish got the bright idea to sample shots from Tim, [...]

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Luigi Lupi’s pictures from Seattle

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Espress yourself – Nervous times abound at coffee’s world championships, article at www.msnbc.msn.com. Nice pictures!

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Dane takes the crown in World Barista Championship (transcript from Seattle Times posted on alt.coffee)

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