The Final 6

World Barista Finalists – The top 6 are starting from 12pm on Friday the 15^th (Australia 8pm)

Don’t miss the action, live stream it! There will be some very tough competition coming up and, while you’ll miss the most important criteria of actually tasting that fabulous coffee, the video is up close and right into the coffee – you can practically see the nervous tension from each of the competitors!

Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood

Colonna and Small’s -  United Kingdom - 11.45

Miki Suzuki

Maruyama Coffee - Japan - 12.15

Raul Rodas

Paradigma Coffee Roasters – Guatemala - 12.45

Colin Harmon

3FE (Third Floor Espresso) – Ireland - 1.15

Fabrizio Sención Ramírez

Cafe Sublime – Mexico - 1.45

Stefanos Domatiotis

 Taf - Greece  - 2.15

WBC Semi Finalists

Complete running order for WBC 2012 Semi-Finals, starting from Thursday at 11am local Vienna time (7pm local Australian time)

Live stream the action, or check out the archived videos if you missed it!

11:17 Raul Rodas

Paradigma Coffee Roasters - Guatemala

11:36 Coen van Sprang

Lebkov & Sons - The Netherlands

11:55 Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood

Colonna and Small’s - United Kingdom

12:14 Per Nordell

Åre Kafferoster - Sweden

12:33 Philipp Meier

Independent - Switzerland

12:52 Matija Hrkac

Good Food - Croatia

1:11 Fabrizio Sención Ramírez

Cafe Sublime - Mexico

1:30 Colin Harmon

3FE (Third Floor Espresso) - Ireland

1:49 Stefanos Domatioti

Taf - Greece

2:08 Ricardo Azofeifa

Costa Rica Coffee Institute (ICAFE) - Costa Rica

2:27 Miki Suzuki

Maruyama Coffee - Japan

2:46 Daniel Mendez

Viva Espresso - El Salvador

Day One of the WBC

Day one of the World Barista Competition is well underway. Today, competition wise, is all about the baristas. With 54 countries having their representatives competing for the glory and the title of the World Champion the schedule is tightly packed. Starting off at 8am Vienna time (Australia is 8 hours in front, so it’s started at 4pm local time for us), the competitors go back to back for two days straight, finishing at 5pm each night.

For the running list of all competitors check out the World Barista Championship website, or the Day 1 and Day 2 schedule links are right here.

Aussie Craig Simon is first up on day two (tomorrow, Wednesday the 13^th). Local time he’ll be on at 4:15pm sharp, so don’t miss him – live stream all the action!

Other Aussie competitors Fred Lullfitz and Matt Perger are also on tomorrow. Cup tasters will be from 10am-3pm, and the Brewers Cup will be from 12pm-4pm.

I’ll surely be watching all the action, so I’ll keep you all updated as the results come in.

World Barista Championship

Fresh from the social networking sphere, the 2013 spots for the world barista championships have been announced! 


It's the first day of the 2012 World Barista Championships in Vienna, where the world's best baristas, brewers, cup tasters and roasters will be fighting out to progress through the different rounds and into finals day on Friday. The first battle, however, has already been fought with the bid to host the 2013 world competitions being announced only a few hours ago.


The most exciting news is that Melbourne, Australia, will be host to the 2013 World Barista Championship and Brewers Cup in May next year. The result, while not surprising in view of the great competition that was this year at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo, Australia did take the bid from hot contenders Puerto Rico... needless to say, I most certainly will be making an appearance there next year!

The Latte Art Championship, Coffee in Good Spirit, Cup Tasting and Roasting Championship will be hosted in France in June next year, a big difference from Seoul, Korea this year in November.

For now though, let's keep our eyes on this years competition with Aussies Craig Simon, Matt Perger and Fred Lullfitz representing their country this week.

To keep up to date with all the action, don't miss the live streaming on the WBC website!