coffee business strategies

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The nation’s top espresso-makers battled it out Monday to be called best-of-the-best, but it was Kyle Glanville of Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea who took home top honors. Glanville won the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s (SCAA) highly competitive 2008 United States Barista Championship (USBC), hosted by Krups. The heated competition took place at SCAA’s [...]

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OK, so it’s Specialty Coffee Association of America, not the Specialty Coffee Growers Association, but otherwise, the article is spot on. I even like the subtitle:
The National Barista Championship beginning Friday will showcase some highly sophisticated coffee preparation — and for three local competitors, the experience is as rich and savory as a perfect [...]

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Neat article on MSN (in their City Guides section) looks at Seattle’s coffee culture and discusses barista competitions.
Thanks to Starbucks, coffee is big business in America, where specialty espresso drinks—lattes, cappuccinos, macchiatos—have replaced the diner “cup of joe.”
But long before Starbucks was a household name, the coffee revolution was underway in mid-1970s Seattle, [...]

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I had a good interview with the New Paper from Singapore earlier this week, which resulted in the following article surrounding the Asia Barista Championship. Although missing the technical points of our discussion completely (sour coffee and chalky milk comments were blended), he does a nice job of capturing the spirit of competition.
WE live [...]

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Singapore, 1 February 2008 - For the first time in Asia, a competition between Asia’s best coffee barista professionals will be held at an Asian level from 22nd to 24th April this year at the Singapore Expo. In conjunction with FHA2008 (Food&HotelAsia2008) the “Asia Barista Championship” will host professional baristas from all over the Asia-Pacific [...]

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