Brewers Cup and Cup Tasters info now released! 

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Honoka Kawashima FOURTH IN THE WORLD!!!!

We are beyond proud to announce that Honoka Kawashima, our Aotearoa NZ Barista Champion of 2023 and talented barista from Frank’s Coffee in Wellington, has achieved an incredible fourth place in the prestigious World Barista Championship held this 1-4 May in Busan, South Korea. Competing amongst 60 other national competitors to make it to the

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AGM details.

Dear Members We warmly invite all members of good standing to join us for our AGM, accompanied by a pre-AGM Quiz Night and Supper the evening before. Accommodation at Quest Hastings is now fully reserved, but alternative options are available in the Bay area. As always, the AGM promises to be an enlightening event, featuring

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World Cup Tasters next month! A new representative is announced.

(L-R) Jaye Sanders, Johann Chong, Pat Russell, Han Jong Lee, and Jaye Sanders  Photo credit Yuri Yang   With ten seconds in it, Pat Russell, Sucafina NZ, won the 2023 NZ Cup Tasters Championship thereby cementing a doubleheader by being awarded the national title championship in two countries. He last competed in Cup Tasters on the

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Regional Competitors ’24

Please see updates here for all listed competitors in our Regional events and a little bit about them and why they want to compete. Respect. Auckland competitors:     Jisi Li, Coffee 366 Limited, Auckland Jisi is a first-time competitor currently making around 200 coffees a day. Bio: (Jisi’s words): I’m competing so I can

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Celebrating our past Barista Champions

The return of regional barista events has encouraged us to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people who are part of the Championship journey in New Zealand. We reached out to all of our past champions to get some words from them asking them to add anything additional that they felt might inspire the

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