Posted Fri Jun 13, 2008, 3:37pm Subject: Canadian Eastern Regional Barista Championship (w/ live webcast link)
Baristas from Montreal, Ottawa, and the Maritimes compete for a berth in the National Championship in October.
Sunday June 15th: 9AM - early afteroon (preliminary round) Monday June 16th: 10AM - 12:30PM (final round)
Totally free and should be a good time, come for a while or stay for the whole thing. I'll be blogging as often as I can over at www.espresso-myself.ca, and there should be a live feed webcast as well (edit: here's the link! Click Here (www.ustream.tv)). Hope to see some new and familiar faces on Sunday.
Competitors (in no particular order):
Nicole Bertram - Caffe Art Java (Montréal, QC) Jamie Loughead-Folks - Just Us! Coffee Roasters Coop (Wolfville, NS) Julie Couture - Caffellini (St-Bruno, QC) Luke Spicer - Caffe Art Java (Montréal, QC) Laura Perry - Bridgehead (Ottawa, ON) JF Leduc - Caffe in Gamba (Montréal, QC) Jordan Myall - Caffellini (St-Bruno, QC) Davide Delli Fraine - Santa Teresa Caffe (Ste-Terese, QC) Anthony Benda - Café Veritas (Montréal, QC)
lizclayton Senior Member Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Brooklyn, NY Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Mon Jun 16, 2008, 10:59am Subject: Re: Canadian Eastern Regional Barista Championship (w/ live webcast link)
The results!
#1- Laura Perry (Bridgehead Coffee, Ottawa) - 657 points #2- Anthony Benda (Caffe Sante Vertitas, Montreal) - 583 pts #3- Luke Spicer (Caffe Art Java, Montreal) (? pts) #4- Jean-Francois LeDuc (Caffe In Gamba, Montreal) 500.5 pts #5- Jordan Mayall (Caffellini, St-Bruno, QC) (?) pts #6- Julie Coture (Caffelini, St-Bruno, QC) 468 pts
Wonderful job everybody. Anth, I can't wait to read your rundown of what the experience was like. Thanks to the organizers for offering the live feed — see many of you in October!
laurajane Senior Member Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Expertise: Pro Barista
Posted Mon Jun 16, 2008, 9:04pm Subject: Re: Canadian Eastern Regional Barista Championship (w/ live webcast link)
Thanks Mark :) It was a really cool first experience competing, and culture over on the east side is a huge love fest! Everyone genuinely cheering everyone else on and anthony even lent me a pitcher so I wouldn't spill my reduction quite so much... heh. I also accidently took home your spoons Anthony...soo... better come to Bridgehead then I guess ;P
jfbleduc Senior Member Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Montreal Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: Pavoni Pro + old Venus
Posted Tue Jun 17, 2008, 6:46am Subject: Re: Canadian Eastern Regional Barista Championship (w/ live webcast link)
Laura, keep Anthony's spoon, I've got one of your's, remember when I had to steel one of the juges spoon to built my sig drink ;-) ? Congrats to everyone it was a real pleasure (and learning experience) to be part of it. Cheers, JF
Posted Tue Jun 17, 2008, 8:05am Subject: Re: Canadian Eastern Regional Barista Championship (w/ live webcast link)
Oi what a weekend. I think I have a few dozen more friends or so than I started with on Friday. Can't wait until October, our region is going to surprise a lot of people, I think. At some point when I can summon the energy and spelling skills required I'll write my POV experience in the CBA blog. Congratulations Laura, it was a pleasure to cheer for someone so skilled and so damn nice :). I'll exchange my spoons for a couple pounds of epic, deal?
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