How quickly a year rolls around. It seems as though one minute Mark was celebrating his title as WA Barista Champion, and all too quickly, he’s set to defend it! That’s right; it’s time for the coffee industry’s glamour event of the year, the 2010 Western Australian Barista Championship.
Due to popular demand the WA Barista Academy now offers night classes. In addition to WABA's very popular Saturday classes the night classes have already started to fill up as people are finding it easier to fit into their busy schedules. The night classes will be available from 3 May, with limited spaces available.
WABA now has a green thumb and we have started to grow two coffee trees. The trees are of the Dwarf Arabica variety and with a bit of luck, won’t die!
The festive season is here and even our Dwarf Arabica coffee trees (Fee and Juan Pablo) are getting into the holiday spirit. Check out Christmas tree pics on the Flickr site.
A few days ago the Barista Academy took the next step in its fresh new face launching a twitter account. Although a little slow to jump on the social media bandwagon the Barista Academy tweets will endevour to keep everyone updated with everything new and exciting in not only the local barista community but also the specialty coffee industry throughout the world.
This Saturday the 18th at 10am I will be heading to Kitchen Warehouse Cockburn to conduct a home coffee demonstration.
The demonstration will include coffee samples of two of our favourite coffee’s here at the Barista Academy – the Ethiopian Nekisse and the Rwandan COE lot #5.