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WBC 2012 PREP JOSH HOCKIN

A wee taste of the practice and prep done by 2011 Canadian Barista Champ Josh Hockin before competing at the World Barista ...

Alejandro and Chris discussing coffee

Look what we have for you! Our 2011 Barista and Latte Art Champions discussing coffee, the competitions and their passion for the ...

DISK Fine review

Being one of the lucky hundred, receiving the pre-production DISK Fine from Prima Coffee Equipment also meant writing a review. Here it ...

Nordic Barista Cup

Twobig coffee events are coming up this year. The WBC in Vienna and the Nordic barista Cup in Kopenhagen. The organisation of the ...

Barista Company

Since 2006 Barista Company is a major player on the Dutch coffee market when it comes to coffee quality. Besides providing training and ...

Review of the Mahlkönig PRO M GRINDER

Order of factors for classic Italian 4M’s of espresso is often disputed. I see it as: Coffee, Grinder, Machine and Barista in that ...

Video: SCAE Deutsche Barista Championships

The German Barista Championship took place in Hamburg and for all competitors it was an ideal opportunity to enhance their network and ...

WCE Request for 2013 Championship Host Proposals

DUBLIN, IRELAND (April 2, 2012) – A request for proposals to host the 2013 World Barista Championship, 2013 World Brewers Cup, 2013 ...

Cuisinart and illy caffè

Cuisinart and illy caffè announced on 22 March a global partnership to develop a new line of espresso machines designed and ...

Photo-exposition @ Espressofabriek IJburg

Come to the Espressofabriek IJburg and have a look at the wonderful photograhpy by Jaap van den Beukel. His models are skaters in ...

Coen van Sprangs WBC sponsors

Preparation is everything when you are about to compete at the World Barista Championship. It's even more nerve wrecking than the ...

Coen van Sprangs favourite coffee

This month, Specialtycoffee started a new series in which the men and women ‘behind the coffee’ step into the limelight. In the first ...

James Hoffman and Nespresso

James Hoffman just published a blog about Nespresso. Interesting to read his thoughts about this highly succesful product and to quote ...

Increase coffee production Brazil

The International Coffee Organisation (ICO) reports expect Brazil producing 50.6 million bags, comprising of 37.7 million bags of ...

Send me to Vienna

Folks at Natvia are once again sponsoring a trip to the World Barista Championship! Check out Send Me to Vienna to find out how you and ...

Chapter 1 New Coffee Hot Spot in Berlin

Nora Smahelová opened in december 2011 Chapter 1 in Berlin. It's the first coffeebar in Germany where you can get a coffee prepared on ...

Thrilling Espresso Music Video

The exclusive biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is a riveting story of the roller-coaster life of the CEO of Apple. With ...

Video: Bean Scene Magazine with a Mirage

BeanScene joins Shanny Sena from Naked Espresso to shoot a naked espresso shot on a Kees van der Westen Mirage for the December 2011 ...

Video: Punks go barista

Very nice video of the very succesful new espressobar in Utrecht the Netherlands. Barista's Lennaert Meijboom and Angelo van de Weerd ...

Coffee Car

Good idea! Driving a car on coffee grounds! Have fun with both video's of this old Rover 600-series that runs on waste coffee grounds ...

Barbera No blend

Shortly a new coffee from Barbera will be available in the shop of our site. this Sumatra Mandheling Montagna Gayo is certainly one of ...

La Marzocco Linea BBQ

Outside, monday morning in november. Cold chilly and foggy. So cheer up! Summer feelings with La Marrzocco Linea...(source Speciality ...

What is specialty coffee?

Nice video which investigates the knowledge of coffee on the street. Especially amazing for us - based in the Netherlands - is that ...

SPACE ROGERS GS3 is now available

Recently introduced at OUT OF THE BOX Milano, La Marzocco is proud to launch the SPACE ROGERS special edition GS3. Inspired by the ...

Video Out of the Box la Marzocco Milan

La Marzocco published this video on YouTube for it's fantstic Out of the Box event in Milan. Enjoy!

Video: revolutionary extraction techniques Espresso

Correct technique for the perfect espresso! See the video every barista is raving about.....

GB5 2 group news

Beginning this month, the GB5 2 group models (serial number 4978) will be produced with shiny stainless steel exterior panels in place ...

Video Trabocca

Trabocca from Amsterdam made a promotional video with very impressive footage of Ethiopia. National Geographic? You ain't seen nothing ...

The World Aeropress Championships

In its first incarnation, the World Aeropress Championship (WAC), held at Tim Wendelboe in Oslo, could only charitably be described ...

World Record La Marzocco

la Marzocco sponsored a world record attempt with 4 GB5s. The challenge - to create a record number of espressos in an hours time. 8 ...

World of Coffee Vienna

Vienna is the perfect coffee hotspot with its 200-year-old coffeehouse culture. The Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE), has ...

La Marzocco GS/3 Top seller ESW

The La Marzrocco GS/3 is a top seller within the range of espressomachines of Espresso Service West. the GS-3 is een state-of-the-art

Are you ready for the main event?

La Marzocco Out Of The Box will return this fall to Milano on occasion of the HOST Expo. OOTB is about celebrating our originality and ...

Tattooed with La Marzocco

As a sub-culture of tattooed baristas takes off in the united stAtes,
one academic offers a look at the significance of inking oneself ...

Mahlkoenig Hamburg VIDEO

In august a delegation of SpecialtyCoffee.nl visited the Mahlkönig factory in Hamburg. We were impressed by the sheer craftmanship, the ...

New Kenyan coffee varietal

Last year the Coffee Research Foundation (CRF) in Ruiru, Kenya released a new disease-resistant arabica varietal that has been in ...

Ristretto | Los Angeles Coffee Crawl

The intrastate rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco doesn’t make much sense if you live outside of California. Or really, if ...

TRABOCCA NOMINATED!

We are proud to announce that the Dutch Coffee Coffee Trader Trabocca has been nominated for the 'Triodos Bank Hart-Hoofd' Trophee ...

Willem Boot as Key Note speaker

La Marzocco is proud to present Willem J. Boot as Key Note speaker and guest of honor at our upcoming Out Of The Box event in ... Read more

New station layout at WBC VIENNA

This year, as with others, the Rules and Regulations Committee has been hard at work improving and refining the WBC competition. Each ...