Day Two Review of SCAE and WBC Results

Mike Khan is Technical Manager for BUNN Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this post, he reports from Caffé Culture/SCAE being held in London June 22-25. BUNN is an official sponsor of this year’s event.

Well it's another sunny day here in London. I'd like to tell you that I'm writing this in a quiet moment, but there has been no such thing. The trifecta continues to cause a stir and both our stands have been extremely busy.
Again we have seen customers from all across the globe and many of them have commented on our new brewer:
"It certainly looks sturdy" said Paul Meikle-Janney of Coffee Community.... I'm hoping that can be considered as complimentary as Lars Pilengrim of Johan & Nystrom's "it's as revolutionary as an iPhone."
Our "Seed to Cup" stand has been serving great coffees from Brazil, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, India Guatemala and Ethiopia. The trifecta really does a good job of bringing out the character of each one. Jens Norgaard of Europa 1989 says "Tastes as good as french press but with a smoother mouthfeel."

Mike


And the World Barista Championship (WBC)....

There were twelve semi-finalists at the WBC in London on Thursday (pictured right).

1. Soren Stiller Markussen, DENMARK
2. Raul Rodas, GUATEMALA
3. Fabrizio Sencion, MEXICO
4. Kyle Straw, CANADA
5. Ana Lucia Hawit, HONDURAS
6. Michael Phillips, USA
7. Scottie Callaghan, AUSTRALIA
8. Yara Castanho, BRAZIL
9. Thomas Schweiger, GERMANY
10. Colin Harmon, IRELAND
11. Alejandro Mendez, EL SALVADOR
12. Stefanos Domatiotis, GREECE

And then today were the finals! You can see the excitement of the crowd, and what a crowd it was! We were biting our nails waiting to hear the results. But we are excited to announce that Michael Phillips of the USA (Intelligentsia Coffee) has become the 2010 World Barista Champion!!! A big congratulations goes out to Michael on a great performance and his winning point total of 706.

BUNN would also like to congratulate Raul Rodas (Guatemala) from Technochef for winning the Silver with 691 points, along with the other four finalists:
Colin Harmon (Ireland) 672.5 points
Scottie Callaghan (Australia) 659.5 points
Soren Stiller Markussen (Denmark) 644.5 points
Stefanos Domatiotis (Greece) 632 points

From Anaheim to London, it has been quite a whirlwind experience for us in specialty coffee this year.