Espresso competitors collection The Barista League has launched its 2024 season schedule, together with 12 competitions on 4 continents.
The collection kicks off in February in Gothenburg, Sweden, coinciding with the inaugural Nordic Espresso Fest. Each occasions are produced by the identical advertising and marketing and low occasions company, Ordna Occasion Company.
In North America, the Barista League at present has an April competitors scheduled for Mexico Metropolis (Mexico), in addition to August competitions scheduled for Denver, Brooklyn (New York) and Montreal (Canada). Final yr, the collection included stops in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Toronto (Canada) and Mexico Metropolis.
Different Barista League locations in 2024 embrace Warsaw (Poland), Berlin (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Bristol (UK), Dubai (UAE), Seoul (South Korea) and Sydney (Australia).
As in years previous, the Barista League competitors will stay free for rivals, and it’s open to folks with any stage of espresso expertise.
The competitors itself is designed to check the real-world expertise of baristas. Since its founding by Steven Maloney in 2015, the spirited competitors platform has served as a extra regionally centered and accessible platform than different national- or international-level formal barista competitions.
“The Barista League goals to stage the taking part in subject and in doing so discover one of the best barista workforce who could make the best-tasting espresso utilizing solely the tools, espresso, and data at their disposal,” the Barista League mentioned in an announcement of the 2024 schedule. “In every competitors, groups are examined on real-world barista expertise in an thrilling drinks problem and a sensory expertise problem.”
See the entire 2024 Barista League schedule right here.
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