Aotearoa Barista Championships 23-24 August 2025 – Come see the best Baristas in NZ

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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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Our Barista Champions: Hide Kono 2011

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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AGM 2023: constitutional changes voted on at AGM

Membership constitutional change summary For voting at the NZSCA AGM 2023, Friday 18 May, Sherwood, Queenstown. What could one membership look like? Executive Summary: This is a proposal to move to one membership that includes hospitality groups and businesses that serve coffee into our membership. 1st Point:  We promote our Association as being open to

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2023 NZ Barista Champs Judges

We interviewed our prospective judges for the 2023 Meadow Fresh NZ Barista Championship about their coffee journeys, what inspires and 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’s fairly.  Many of them have attended specialised workshops involving pulling

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Announcement: 2021/22 Championship Dates and Venues

We are currently working on finalizing sponsorship and locking in the details around the 2021 Cup Tasters, Latte Art, and 2022 Barista Championships. Planning our events calendar has been challenging. We thank you for your support during these times. Thankfully, we managed to successfully run the Cup Tasters and Latte Art early in 2020 before

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