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Congratulations to The Flying Thud on winning the Irish Barista Championship yesterday. I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen at the UKBC and he turns out to be a great barista and thoroughly nice chap. Stephen will represent Ireland at the WBC in June, i’ll be there with Hugo to document the event.
K2 has served me very well over the last (almost) year and it’s a miracle that i’ve stuck with it so long, i’m normally very fickle with things like this. The minor changes made a week ago were not enough, i’ve spent the last month changing butchering the K2 code to the point where i’ve finally realised it’s time for a theme change…
Oh how I love trade shows… I seem to be spending more and more time at these microcosms of society, orange juice man meets spinning glass cleaner man, meets turnip jam man.
EXPO West is a South West trade show that occurs every year 1 mile from my house! This year I hung out on the Origin coffee stand with Tom, Phil, Andy, Stuart (of Masteroast) & Steve. Origin were putting on barista presentations all day in a sort of theatre area complete with gold ‘throne’ chairs, I held a presentation to a small audience at lunch time…
It seems that coffees relentless efforts to take control of my entire life are not coming to an end just yet. Our recent trip to Masteroast was very interesting because I got to try components of blends and single origin coffees which I hadn’t really had the chance to experience before [...]
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Check out what else is occurring in the world of The Wild Drink Blog.
Check out Steve Leighton's video coffee cupping blog... really cool.
- #Internet masturbation it may be, but a google.co.uk of "drink blog" brings TWDB out at the top of the page. The same on google.com brings TWDB out second from the top.
- #Upgrading wordpress is nver as easy as it should be, this time it managed to log me out and made it impossible to get back in. For a moment I thought the blog was going to sit here like a vegetable forever.
- #Keep track of those noisy commenters and their opinions.
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