World Barista Championships

The World Barista Champs have just been on in Corferias, Colombia June 2-5, 2011. Australia was represented by Matt Perger. You can learn more about this guy in his interview for the competition

Australia Barista Champion 2011 Matt Perger from World Coffee Events on Vimeo.

Matt made the finals of the three world competition and you can watch the whole thing below as well as have a snoop around the webite here

Watch live streaming video from worldbaristachampionshiplive at livestream.com

You'll hear me posting a lot about coffee amoung other things here but the commentary in the video above is quite interesting about the barista vs the consumer taste preference battle, posing some interesting thoughts I felt.

And if you don'tlike coffee at least marvel at the spectical which are competition baristas, certainly a bit of wank to them, but at the end of the day thats why we love them.