Feb 07th 2009: Singapore Barista Championship

Kind of the short notice, we found the info about Singpore 2009 Barista Championship. This is the first Championship for us. Although according to some people this Barista championship is smaller than usual one, but for us it quite amazing to see so many coffee lover come and 

attending this event with enthuastic.

This Singapore 2009 Barista actually is to compete between all Barista in Singapore and to send the championship to Atlanta for International 2009 Barista Championship.

This event held on Feb 5th - Feb 7th. But we only manage to attend on the last day for the last competition and the winner announcement.

There is also a competition between the Barista leader "boss" and the Barista competition attendee "student".

The competition happen really tense and also fast. They can produce 40+ cups within 10mins. and also with arts (picture below). 

From this Barista, we also taste the final result from the "boss" and "student", cappucino. Happen to have it score, we as the amateur coffee taster, and differentiate clearly which cappucino is better. 

The cappucino from "boss" is really amazing, the coffee taste really cut thru the milk and this is a really good taste of the coffee since we still can taste the coffee.

In the other hand, coffee from "student" also nice, and the cappucino really taste good, but compare to the "boss", it was not as tastefull.

From this Barista competition, we found out that with the same coffee, same type of grinder and same level of grind type, using the same espresso machine and also same brand of milk, the taste can be very different depends on the Barista who makes the coffee. This all because of the skill of the Barista.

Barista is not only a coffee maker, but a skillfull job. 

BRAVO!!!!