World Barista Championship 2009 - G'luck ch2008!

Mr Magnolia · 10-04-2009 02:41PM #1

The lads are flying out to Atlanta on Tuesday morning.

Forum regular and 2009 Irish Barista Champion ch2008 is heading out to represent Irish interests accompanied by an elite, caffeinated crew.

May all your espressos be God Shots.

Enjoy!

Live feeds should be available here: http://www.worldbaristachampionship.com/

hshortt · 10-04-2009 03:03PM

Fair play guys, best of luck with the competition and I hope to see lots of Video on the return. Fingers crossed for you ch2008!

You too RE*AC*TOR!

Cheerio
Howard

eclectichoney · 10-04-2009 03:40PM

Good luck ch2008!

Mish

Kannon · 10-04-2009 06:26PM

good luck lads. have a great buzz! take it down ch2008...

SeaSide · 11-04-2009 07:56AM

Come home in victory or come home on your shield.

no pressure

Slaphead07 · 11-04-2009 12:44PM

Good Luck CH,
from your caffinated customers by the CHQ.

Gran Hermano · 11-04-2009 01:05PM

Best of luck ch2008!

RE*AC*TOR · 11-04-2009 03:33PM

Thanks for all the kind words guys.

Colin is on first up on Saturday morning, which is the last day of the semis. Finals on Sunday.

I'm sure we'll check in from Atlanta before Saturday.

Mr Magnolia · 11-04-2009 03:36PM

Good that he's up on Saturday, I should have uninterupted viewing once the streaming is ok.

ch2008 · 11-04-2009 08:35PM

Thanks for the kind words guys, much appreciated. If I remember/dont tank I'll give you guys a "shout out". Its an American thing. I'm down with it...:pac:
Anyway, if your on Twitter (which is great for coffee nerds) you can follow me @dublinbarista or follow himself at @otherblackstuff.

Updates as well hopefully on the blog and Hasbean steve has a surprise on www.hasbean.co.uk this week so keep an eye out. The coffee is incredible so gonna go do my best and hope to have a larf along the way.

Thanks again guys,
colin

RE*AC*TOR · 15-04-2009 04:30PM

First full day in Atlanta today. Very spread-out city, not suitable for walking from point A-B. Had some coffee in Octane this morning, which was stellar. They use Counter Culture. Had a cappa made with a fruity sidamo, and a few french presses of different stuff. Very cool place.
Then it was on to Wal Mart to pick up some supplies. Wal Mart isn't a great experience when you have a disparate shopping list and don't know where anything is.
Have our first meeting in about 90mins, with all the other baristas and the competition organisers. Should be first view of the SCAA floor also.

Mr Magnolia · 15-04-2009 06:24PM

Sounds great so far.

alastair · 15-04-2009 07:40PM

Coming in late with the good wishes, but best of luck!

Saw Colin driving the Piaggio up the NCR last Thursday - didn't realise they lived out my neck of the woods!

Oh, and came back from Belfast to a burgled house yesterday - thankfully they didn't bother with larger items - just laptops, photographic gear, cash, iPods, jewelery, watches, etc

- so Silvia was left untouched.

RE*AC*TOR · 15-04-2009 10:56PM

Some photos from Colin's flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colindublinbarista/

IsThatSo? · 16-04-2009 08:02AM

Photos are great, but stop teasing us

Hope all goes well for Colin on Saturday

IsThatSo? · 16-04-2009 08:04AM

alastair wrote: »

Oh, and came back from Belfast to a burgled house yesterday - thankfully they didn't bother with larger items - just laptops, photographic gear, cash, iPods, jewelery, watches, etc - so Silvia was left untouched.

:eek:

The heathens would not understand good coffee, luckily. Sorry to hear about the rest of the stuff, its not a nice feeling at all

eclectichoney · 16-04-2009 08:30AM

Yeah, happened me before Alaister so I now how awful it feels

At least you still have the Silvia I guess

hshortt · 16-04-2009 08:35AM

@RE*AC*TOR thanks for the updates, hope everything goes great for you guys at the weekend.

@Alaister, that's a real pain in the backside. I hope that you can sort it all out without too much stress. I'd probably have to be sedated if this happened to me.

Cheers

alastair · 17-04-2009 08:46AM

Cheers for that folks.

I see Coffee Angel are hosting a support bash for Colin on Saturday - with streaming video and coffee tasting.

http://www.coffeeangel.com/index2.php

Might head over if I've got a new alarm set up in the gaff

RE*AC*TOR · 17-04-2009 11:26AM

Some more pics here guys http://www.flickr.com/photos/theotherblackstuff/
Today is our official practice time (in about 3.5 - 4 hours time). So this will be crucial. Make sure the coffee is in order etc.

alastair · 17-04-2009 02:18PM

I'm sure someone meant to mention it, but Has Bean are flogging the beans Colin is competing with at a special price this weekend.

https://www.hasbean.co.uk/products/Why-Is-Has-Bean-Green.html

edit: gotta laugh at Has Bean's turnaround - ordered some of the above beans, both green and roasted, and a blank basket. Time taken from hitting submit button to flagged as shipped? 30 minutes. Steve's not even there to crack the whip!

hshortt · 17-04-2009 10:10PM

Thanks for that too Alastair, just ordered a couple of bags. Delighted to see the support for Colin extending.

Cheers

Mr Magnolia · 18-04-2009 08:06AM

Very sorry to hear that alastair, must be a nightmare. Hopefully ye can put it behind you alright.

RE*AC*TOR, the photos are beautiful, great shots.

Just catching up on some blogs and making my way through the photos. Be watching later ch2008.

eclectichoney · 18-04-2009 08:30AM

Thanks for the heads up about hasbean, will def order a few bags later today.

Lovely photos Reactor

Roll on 4:15pm!

davej · 18-04-2009 10:13AM

Yes good luck ch2008

I watched a little bit of the competition yesterday and at some points the streaming wasn't great (freezing up). Others in the chatroom were also complaining about it.
Hopefully all will be ok today.

davej

Slaphead07 · 18-04-2009 05:22PM

I wasn't able to see Colin's performance.... and news?

Gran Hermano · 18-04-2009 05:29PM

Likewise, am out enjoying the sun but checking here via mobile. Keep us posted.

Fingers have been crossed all day.

eclectichoney · 18-04-2009 05:30PM

Couldn't get the stream to work unfortunately - too much traffic I'd say

alastair · 18-04-2009 05:41PM

eclectichoney wrote: »

Couldn't get the stream to work unfortunately - too much traffic I'd say

Caught Colin's speciality and his chat afterwards, and the video was okay on and off until the US contestant, when it all fell over (presumably because of local bandwidth demand?).

Colin seemed to be battling nerves, and there were a couple of spills, but what I saw of the coffee looked the business.

Best of luck tomorrow!

Mr Magnolia · 18-04-2009 07:56PM

Anytime I check(ed) the stream it's either 'not available' or it'll run for a while and then freeze leaving the sound running, very frustrating,

alastair · 18-04-2009 09:34PM

Colin goes into the 6 finalists!

Well done that man!

World Barista Championship 2009 - G'luck ch2008!

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