Congratulations to 2016 World Barista Champion Berg Wu of Taiwan
Congratulations Berg Wu of Taiwan
Congratulations to 2016 World Brewers Cup Champion Tetsu Kasuya of Japan
Congratulations Tetsu Kasuya!
Announcing the World Barista Championship Finalists & The First Ever Team Competition Winner!
Top Six. Photo by Jake Olson. The 2016 World Barista Championship (WBC) in Dublin, Ireland has completed the Preliminary and Semi-Final rounds of competition at the Dublin World Of Coffee show. The top six competitors from the Semi-Finals advance on to the finals on Saturday, June 25th, and Team Tamper has won [...]
Scores from Round One of the WBC
Congratulations to all the competitors on their hard work and amazing journeys!
Announcing WBC Teams!
In 2000, the World Barista Championship was born. By the end of the WBC in Dublin, we will have crowned our seventeenth World Barista Champion. The history of the WBC has seen many evolutions in order to celebrate the continuing innovation in specialty coffee. This year, the competition has evolved to include a new reason [...]
How To Watch the 2016 World Barista Championships & World Brewers Cup Online
Excited for the 2016 World Barista Championship and World Brewers Cup in Dublin, but can't make it to Dublin yourself? Well we have two great ways for you to tune in and watch online. 2016 World Barista Championship - Maestro Live Viewing Platform We are very excited to introduce a new Live viewing experience this [...]
The World Barista Championship, World Brewers Cup, and Re:co Symposium Descend On Dublin
We’re just a few short days from the start of the 17th annual World Barista Championship, a showcase of the finest in espresso-based barista talent, and the 5th annual World Brewers Cup, the championship for manually-brewed coffee. These events are hosted by World Coffee Events (WCE), in conjunction with the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s World [...]
Come and Watch The Coffee Man Film in Dublin With World Barista Champion Sasa Sestic!
THE COFFEE MAN follows 2015 World Barista Champion Sasa Sestic from Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee to Seattle, USA, the home of the specialty coffee movement and host of the 2015 World Barista Championship. For more information on and tickets for the special World Barista Championship Dublin showing featuring a Q&A with Sasa Sestic, please checkout the event here.
2016 Re:co Dublin Fellows Announced!
It’s with great excitement that we announce the 2016 Re:co Symposium Dublin Fellows! These 20 Re:co fellows are future or current leaders in speciality coffee, driving the future of our industry. The fellowship is intended to provide an opportunity for these upcoming leaders, who belong in the environment of deeper understanding and progress that Re:co Symposium provides.
WBC Rules and Regs Revision Recap Round-Up
It’s hard to believe the World Barista Championship is in it’s sixteenth year! We’ve seen the skill and innovation of the coffee community as a molding factor in what the competition represents today. The WBC Evolution Group have been working tirelessly to bring some changes to format that respects its heritage, but which will result in a more dynamic, engaging, and fair WBC, in Dublin and beyond!