WBC2010 from a volunteers perspective
The World Barista Championship has rolled out of town for another year, next stop Bogota, Columbia (June 2-5 2011) Whilst the WBC is an annual event, the friendships created are timeless. Many of the competitors have attended numerous coffee competitions and grasped the opportunity to reunite with friends and regale them with stories of their [...]
Penny University
Saturday 22nd May 2010 saw the much anticipated Square Mile Coffee retail presence arrive in London, in the form of Penny University. Penny University – situated in Redchurch St, just off Shoreditch High St in the suddenly fashionable East End of London – introduces a new concept in the UK. With the focus on brewed [...]
A night at Grindsmith
I’ve just got back home from Manchester where I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last night with Ben and Neil from Grindsmith, a new Syphon Coffee Bar and Art Gallery at 6 Hilton St, in the Northern Quarter (check out the review on Beanhunter) I took along the refractometer and the recently [...]
Closing off an eventful year – farewell 2008
2008 will be remembered for years to come as the year in which the credit crunch hit the UK and took down a number of banks, high street businesses, household names (including Woolworths, Adams Kids etc) and contributed to one of the biggest surges of unemployment in living history. None of these events have dented [...]
