2016 Year in Review
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YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 INTERVIEWS WITH CHAMPIONS & COMPLETE COMPETITION RANKINGS — HIGHLIGHTS FROM DUBLIN & SHANGHAI — BEST PERFORMING NATION: SPONSORED BY JAPAN EDITORIAL O’Coffee - Brazilian Estates - is proud to be, one more time, the Official Sponsor of the 2016 WCE Year in Review publication. This year, we started a new stage: the expansion of our coffee fields, a new management model and a new line of products. This is a result of our continuous search for excellence, with the support of our clients and partners, always trying to provide the best experience in a cup of coffee. Enjoy your reading! OUR COFFEES 14 different coffees and custom-made blends; certified by Microlots, natural, pulped natural (honey process), fully washed and blends; Six farms, four million coffee trees; Bourbon, Catuaí, Icatu, Mundo Novo, Acaiá and Obatã; Precision agriculture, high-tech field equipments; On average, 35,000 bags produced per season; Altitude - 1,000 to 1,100 meters; 40,000 m² of sun-drying area; Rich cup, fine fragrance, excellent aroma, mild body and Parabolic drying patio and African beds; pleasant taste of dark chocolate. Milling infrastructure fully equipped for the preparation of specialty coffee; V-Box 10 kg - Modified Atmosphere Packaging; member of 30 kg or 60 kg bags in jute, polypropylene, grainpro, liners and paper bags; Marketing Support: audiovisual materials supply. CONTACT US Tel.: +55 (16) 3171.1249 www.ocoffee.com.br [email protected] CONTENTS FROM THE CHAIR, MARCUS BONI 05 Reliving a wonderful year — WORLD BARISTA CHAMPIONSHIP 09 Berg Wu – Taiwan — WORLD BREWERS CUP 14 Tetsu Kasuya – Japan — ORIGIN TRIP 17 Champions In Brazil — WORLD LATTE ART CHAMPIONSHIP 19 Um Paul – South Korea — WORLD COFFEE IN GOOD SPIRITS CHAMPIONSHIP 24 Michalis Dimitrakopoulos – Greece — WORLD CUP TASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP 31 Gabriel Céspedes – Costa Rica — WORLD COFFEE ROASTING CHAMPIONSHIP 36 Alexandru Niculae – Romania — BEST PERFORMING NATION 40 Japan — ALL-STARS 41 A Globe-Trotting Year — RE:CO SYMPOSIUM 4542 Leaders Gather In Dublin — RE:VERB 47 Sharing Coffee’s Cutting Edge — VOLUNTEERS 49 The Heart of WCE Events — MEET THE WCE 50 Advisory Board & Staff HISTORY OF CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPIONS HISTORY 2016 JUNE DUBLIN, IRELAND 2016 MARCH SHANGHAI, CHINA World Barista Champion Berg Wu, Taiwan World Latte Art Champion Um Paul, South Korea World Brewers Cup Champion Tetsu Kasuya, Japan World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, Greece World Cup Tasters Champion Juan Gabriel Céspedes, Costa Rica World Coffee Roasting Champion Alexandru Niculae, Romania 2015 JUNE GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN 2015 APRIL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA World Latte Art Champion Caleb Cha, Australia World Barista Champion Sasa Sestic, Australia World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion George Koustoumpardis, Greece World Cup Tasters Champion Juan Gabriel Céspedes, Costa Rica 2015 FEBRUARY ATHENS, GREECE World Coffee Roasting Champion Audun Sørbotten, Norway World Cezve/Ibrik Champion Davide Berti, Italy World Brewers Cup Champion Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen, Norway 2014 JUNE RIMINI, ITALY 2014 MAY MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA World Barista Champion Hidenori Izaki, Japan World Latte Art Champion Christian Ullrich, Germany World Brewers Cup Champion Stefanos Domatiotis, Greece World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Matthew Perger, Australia World Cezve/Ibrik Champion Stavros Lamprinidis, Greece World Cup Tasters Champion Pang-Yu Liu, Taiwan World Coffee Roasting Champion Yu-Chuan Jacky, Taiwan 2013 JUNE NICE, FRANCE World Latte Art Champion Hisako Yoshikawa, Japan World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Victor DelPierre, France 2013 MAY MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA World Cup Tasters Champion Lajos Horvath, Hungary World Barista Champion Pete Licata, USA World Coffee Roasting Champion Naoki Goto, Japan World Brewers Cup Champion Erin McCarthy, USA 2012 NOVEMBER SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA 2012 JUNE VIENNA, AUSTRIA World Latte Art Champion Victoria Kashirtseva, Russia World Barista Champion Raul Rodas, Guatemala World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Akos Orosz, Hungary World Brewers Cup Champion Matt Perger, Australia World Cup Tasters Champion Cory Andreen, Germany Ibrik/Cezve Champion Zoltan Kis, Hungary 2011 JUNE BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 2011 JUNE MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS World Barista Champion Alejandro Mendez, El Salvador World Latte Art Champion Chris Loukakis, Greece World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Philip Leytes, Russia World Cup Tasters Champion Kyriakos Ouzounidi, Greece Ibrik/Cezve Champion Bae Jin-Seol, Korea 2010 JUNE LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM World Brewers Cup Champion Keith O’Sullivan, Ireland World Barista Champion Michael Phillips, USA World Latte Art Champion Haruna Murayama, Japan 2009 JUNE COLOGNE, GERMANY World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Jeroen de Corte, Belgium World Latte Art Champion Peter Hernou, Belgium World Cup Tasters Champion Hector Gonzalez, Guatemala World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Marta Piigli, Estonia Ibrik/Cezve Champion Aysin Aydogdu, United Kingdom World Cup Tasters Champion Valentina Kazachkova, Russia Ibrik/Cezve Champion Christine Koumpouni, Greece 2009 APRIL ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies, United Kingdom 2008 JUNE COPENHAGEN, DENMARK World Barista Champion Stephen Morrissey, Ireland World Latte Art Champion Con Haralambopoulos, Australia World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Tasos Delichristos, Greece World Cup Tasters Champion Casper Engel Rasmussen, Denmark 2007 JUNE TOKYO, JAPAN Ibrik/Cezve Champion Gleb Nevejki & Nadezhda Motylkova, Russia World Barista Champion James Hoffmann, United Kingdom 2007 MAY ANTWERP, BELGIUM 2006 JUNE BERNE, SWITZERLAND World Latte Art Champion Jack Hanna, Australia World Barista Champion Klaus Thomsen, Denmark World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Helger Aava, Estonia World Latte Art Champion Scott Callaghan, Australia World Cup Tasters Champion Annette Moldvaer, United Kingdom World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Anna Serova, Russia World Cup Tasters Champion Gloria Pedroza, Switzerland 2005 APRIL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA 2005 MARCH ATHENS, GREECE World Barista Champion Troels Overdal Poulsen, Denmark World Latte Art Champion Johann Carlstrom, Sweden World Coffee In Good Spirits Champion Demitri Kostifacos, Greece World Cup Tasters Champion Tim Wendelboe, Norway 2004 JUNE TRIESTE, ITALY 2004 FEBRUARY RIMINI, ITALY World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe, Norway World Cup Tasters Champion Fabiana Pozar, Italy 2003 APRIL BOSTON, USA 2002 JUNE OSLO, NORWAY World Barista Championship Paul Bassett, Australia World Barista Champion Fritz Storm, Denmark 2001 APRIL MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA 2000 JUNE MONTE CARLO, MONACO World Barista Championship Martin Hildebrandt, Denmark World Barista Champion Robert Thoresen, Norway CHAIR: CHAIR: THE FROM LETTER “THANK YOU FOR MARCUS BONI SUPPORTING AN AMAZING YEAR OF COFFEE EVENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE!” What an amazing year 2016 has been! New the Hotelex Shanghai show had the chance to watch champions have been crowned, World Coffee the World Latte Art Championship, World Coffee Events has grown, and the next round of exciting in Good Spirits Championship, World Cup Tasters new evolutions for the World Barista Championship Championship, and the 4th edition of the World has begun. Coffee Roasting Championship. It would be impossible to cap off a year of fantastic The vibrant coffee community throughout Asia events without taking a moment to thank our host has particularly resonated with the WCE All-Stars partners, national body organisations, and loyal program, which brings top competitors to all sponsors—your contributions in helping to share sorts of coffee events. Seeing the energy given by the joy of specialty coffee in 2016 are something to audiences at All-Stars in Vietnam, Beijing, Seoul, be proud of. Taipei, Shanghai, and Guangzhou to the All-Stars is a testament to how special sharing excellence in Seeing our community gather at the World coffee can be. Championships in Shanghai and Dublin as we crowned seven new coffee champions was truly There are many ways to display excellence in amazing! A heartfelt congratulations to 2016 World coffee—making it on the highest level of stage, Barista Champion Berg Wu of Taiwan, World Latte researching its most pressing issues, or leading its Art Champion Umpaul of South Korea, World Coffee most innovative companies and movements. Re:co In Good Spirits Champion Michalis Dimitrakopoulos Symposium and the Re:verb events are dedicated of Greece, two-time World Cup Tasters Champion to magnifying the full spectrum of coffee excellence Gabriel Céspedes of Costa Rica, World Coffee and sharing it around the globe. Roasting Champion Alexandru Niculae of Romania, and World Brewers Cup Champion Tetsu Kasuya of Returning to Europe in 2016, Re:co Dublin featured — Japan. insights from over twenty of the brightest minds in the industry in an engaging and challenging Marcus Boni More than one hundred competitors, coaches, and event. Re:verb, WCE’s newest feature event, built Chair, WCE Advisory Board supporters gathered in Dublin for the World Barista on its 2015 momentum by sharing the stories of Championship and World Brewers Cup, feeling dynamic coffee professionals and rising coffee the warm welcome of the Irish coffee community. leaders in three cities in 2016—Tokyo, Shanghai, With the unification of our parent organizations, and Shenzhen. the Specialty Coffee Associations of Europe and America, it was particularly exciting to be hosted We can’t wait for the 2017 World Coffee by the SCAE at their World Of Coffee Dublin show. Championships