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It’s that time of year again and I’m filled with a mixture of anticipation and self doubt. Competing this year will not feel as natural as it did last year, mainly because I don’t work as a barista anymore. It’s a strange situation to be in, having learnt so much in the last year, but [...]
It’s not every day you get to meet one of your bartending heroes. It certainly isn’t every day that you get to meet two.
Well yesterday I did!
For anyone not in the know, Simon Difford (Hero 1) was the founder of CLASS magazine and he then went on to write the Difford’s Guide (formerly Sauce Guide) [...]
I’m live blogging at the rum world class at pinxto people in Brighton. I’m MC’ing the event but will attempt to post pictures as we go…
Jimmy
“Ginge”
Clem
Jamie
Tim
Finalists will be announced shortly…
Competing today:
Jimmy - Urban Beach
Tim - Hotel Seattle
Jamie - Raouls
Ginge - My Hotel
Clem - Pinxto People
Results coming up…
Tim & Ginge are through to the 2nd round!!!!!
Ginge’s [...]
Continuing with the Venice theme, now I’d like to turn the subject over to coffee.
Firstly let me start by m my experiences of coffee in Italy as a whole. On average I found the quality of espresso to be of a higher standard in the UK, but nothing blew me away. That said, we didn’t [...]
The story goes that a talented Venecian bartender named Giuseppe Cipriani helped out a chap called Harry from Boston with some sticky money issues (borught about by his drinking habit). A couple of years later Harry returned to Venice much better off and paid back Cipriani five times what he borrowed telling him to set up a bar and call it ‘Harry’s’.
I’ve been meaning to go to Belgium for years now and do a really good beer tour, but Amsterdam provided me with more than a little taster of what spending an afternoon drinking some of the worlds best beers could be like.
The first pub which we went to was called De Bekeerde Suster, which translates to ‘The Converted Sister’, this is because back in 1554 nuns started making ‘beer’ on the site of this pub so as not to let their male bretherin have all the fun.
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Check out Steve Leighton's video coffee cupping blog... really cool.
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