From my early day visits to the coffee farms, to now, 10 years of learning about this industry and the product we love so much – Coffee. In this industry we have come to learn so many terms and phases: from “the age of discovery” to “commercialization”, “secret stimulate leaf” to “the great commodity”, from […]
It’s interesting how we, as seemingly infallible humans, judge, form opinions and then solidify them as truth as if this is what we were meant to do. It Kind of makes you wonder how much free will we really have. What I’m trying to say is… Brazil was close to the bottom of my list […]
The World Barista Championship is well under way. Here are the results after the preliminary round: CURRENT ROUND ONE RANKINGS: RANK NAME COUNTRY COMPANY 1 Hugh Kelly Australia Ona Coffee 2 André Eiermann Switzerland Ucc Coffee Switzerland 3 Ben Put Canada Monogram Coffee 4 Jun-Bae Bang South Korea Andrea Plus 5 Kapo Chiu Hong […]
Ishan Natalie got his start in coffee 16 years ago, “I was in my first year of University on a journey to become an accountant and grew up in my dad’s business. Growing up in the business and getting out more into the general world, I wanted independence from the family business and to avoid […]
For thousands of years, tea was the go-to drink in Korean culture, in the last few decades however, coffee has emerged as the beverage of choice. One of the most common observations by travellers is that they cannot believe the sheer number of cafes and the hordes of locals that flocked to them. In Seoul […]
Wayne Oberholzer got his start in coffee 9 years ago as a way to pay for his commercial pilot’s license. Fast forward to today, Wayne has won SA Barista champs twice and gone on to represent South Africa twice at the World Barista Championships (WBC 2012 and 2016) and once at the World Cup Tasters […]
Craig got his start in coffee about 9 years, “A friend got me into making coffee in a Moka pot, I loved the process of it and started experimenting with various ways of making it to get a better coffee”. From there Craig repaired a 1 group commercial coffee machine and together with a friend […]
In Travis Scott’s words, he’s “always been a coffee guy”. He got his start in coffee 9 years ago at a coffee shop where he soon learnt “I knew nothing”. In the past 9 years Travis has gained immense coffee knowledge and made a significant impact on the industry. In 2011 he was crowned SA‘s […]
Willem Pienaar got his start in coffee 11 year ago at Origin. As he explains, “I was doing work on site installing the alarm in Origin HQ back before there even was a shop, met Joel and asked to take some coffee home. It was so different from what I had known before that I […]
