Report from the Western Canadian Regional Barista Competition held in Victoria, BC on August 29th and 30th, 2009, including some news about new grinders and espresso machines.
MarkPrince Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2001 Posts: 5,144 Location: Vancouver Expertise: Professional
Espresso: Frankenstein'ed LM Linea Grinder: Anfim Super Caimano Vac Pot: 1922 Silex Drip: Krups Moka Brew Roaster: Hottop
Posted Mon Aug 31, 2009, 9:25pm Subject: Re: Western Regional Canadian Barista Championship 2009, Road Reports
Apologies to all for the six videos auto starting - I don't understand why it is happening. I have the embed code set to autoplay=false using ustream's standard coding for the flash vids, but it still auto starts all the videos. Quite annoying.
If anyone is familiar with ustream's embed code, have a look at the code used:
IMAWriter Moderator Joined: 4 Jul 2002 Posts: 2,897 Location: Brentwood, TN Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: Olympia Cremina, Reg, Penney... Grinder: KYM manual, Vario (on... Vac Pot: Silex, Adcraft SS, Yama 8... Drip: Chemex, Newco, Clever cup Roaster: Behmor 1600, CO/UFO combo
Posted Sat Sep 5, 2009, 11:24pm Subject: Re: Western Regional Canadian Barista Championship 2009, Road Reports
Mark, I guess Victoria is a great example of folks appreciating the opportunity to host an event, and going all out to make it happen. That invitations for the audience to sample 'spro from several of the contestants is awesome, and in my mind brings a sort of human touch. After all, to paraphrase you have often said, the point of all this should be a sort of trickle down effect, that is, to lift the level of competence in all cafes to a higher level. It must have been fun.
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