Five Senses Coffee Blog

Competition Weekend

Yep, its that time of year again and no, I’m not talking about Christmas. It’s the annual Coffee industry competition weekend – which probably does feel a bit like Christmas for the die hard coffee geek. Over the years the competition has evolved to include 4 main events, the Barista Competition, the Latte Art Competition, the Cup Tasting Competition and on the national and world stage the “Coffee in Good Spirits” (a coffee cocktail type event)

Historically,  Five Senses people have done pretty well at these events and this year are training hard in the hope to carry this tradition on. The event is being held at the Mt Hawthorne Community Hall and kicks of with the first of 17 competitors (our very own Mark Chandler) this Saturday the 7th at 9am sharp. The schedule on Saturday runs through until the 11th competitor finishes at 3.30pm. Jenny Murray is the 10th competitor and her event starts at 2.15pm. Sunday morning kicks off with the performances of the remaining 6 competitors. Jeremy Hulsdunk is the first up at 9.00am. The plan is for the barista event to be all wrapped up by lunchtime and the Latte Art event to kick of at 1.00pm and to be finished in time for the Cup Tasting event to start at 3.00pm. We’ve got quite a few entrants in this event too.

I’m glad I’m not a competitor (Not sure I could handle the pressure! ) but I am looking forward to being a spectator.