Congratulations Max Cui, our 2024 Aotearoa Barista Champion

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Aotearoa Barista Champs ’24 – Judges

Judges Information We interviewed our prospective judges for the 2024 Aotearoa Barista Championship about what motivates them to judge others. We say prospective as all judges must pass a stringent calibration the day prior ensuring that they are fully fit and capable to judge our Barista fairly. They attended specialised workshops involving pulling apart the […]

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Latte Art Competitor – Takashi Ueno

We interviewed Takashi Ueno, a latte art competitor about his experience at the Aotearoa Latte Art Championship ’24. Takashi, you’ve competed for 8 years in this discipline at a National level. I admire you as you write down every event name in its entirety when you enter. What changes have you seen in that time?

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Our Barista Champs Sponsors

Thanks to our amazing sponsors, this event just got bigger with the addition of three regional events in March. We are proud of our events and we know we couldn’t do them without the help of many companies individuals and NZ Coffee lovers.  They don’t just give us the money, each sponsor assists in their

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Aotearoa Latte Art Championship ’24

L-R, Runner Up, Daniel Woodhouse, Third Place, John Huang, and Champion Bryan Rajeyya. Photo credit Justin Park @justin_park_j Stunning Images of the day are available on our Latte Art Championship Facebook page here> With thanks to Justin Park & Kerri Goodman Final Ranking & Scores: Champion Bryan Rajeyya 396Runner Up Daniel Woodhouse 380Third Place John

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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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Cofinet announced as our Green Coffee Sponsor at the NZ Barista Champs

NEW Sponsor Barista Champs In the theme of reducing barriers to competing, an opportunity has arisen to create an exciting new sponsor category based on green bean sourcing. As technology and access to roasting have evolved, many baristas now seek to roast their own coffee and we’d like to help them have access to the

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Our Barista Champions: Emma Markland Webster 2002

As we move towards 2024 and the return of regional barista events we want to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people that were part of the journey in New Zealand. We asked our past champions about their journey in coffee competitions in NZ to help inspire the competitive baristas and coffee community of

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