Over the last two days, competitors from all over Ireland came to Dublin to compete for entry into the Irish Barista Championship finals. An impressive 32 entrants applied but only ten would go through to the finals. It gives me great pride to announce that 4 of the finalists that went through are from our cafe. Rachael Coss, Bella Zudor, Emily Gough and Andrius Valiauga. Anna Severyn, also of the cafe did a really great job too, but sadly just missed out on the top ten slot. Rachael was actually the highest scorer of the day with an impressive 470 points. (Important to note that competitors did not have to make signature drinks, so the scores weren’t as high as normal)
Over the next month the guys will be practicing, hopefully a lot, in preperation for the finals at the end of February. I’m hoping we can post reports on how they’re getting along and maybe post the occasional video with the baristas on what the comp means to them. For the moment though, we’re just chuffed with all the entrants from the cafe for taking the courage to actually go and enter.
Check Stephen’s blog for some more details.
