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  • 7/16/2025
Five top baristas find themselves pushing the limits of coffee perfection to win the National Barista Championship - a s | dG1fc3pBN0NXRDhZaFU
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00:00a drink is being born I think the coffee is one of the most wonderful things on the planet
00:08it's not pushing buttons it's a craft customers would ask me what are you gonna do next I'd be
00:14like what do you mean I'm a barista yeah chosen profession if you would have told me eight years
00:20ago that I was gonna be a competitive barista I would have laughed in your face like best in
00:27show but for coffee you're in an arena preparing 12 drinks within 15 minutes a barista must prepare
00:35three rounds of drinks espresso cappuccino and the signature drink serving in any method they can
00:40dream up I have huge ideas I decided I would customize a jam I had just a really simple
00:45visual metaphor white chocolate lime wedges vanilla beans peanuts dried peppers rocks gosh it's so
00:52awesome you run through incredible amount of bad ideas I've done bacon fat mochas you're like this
00:57is gross this is gross I'm bacon fat in my mustache right now I had this idea to distill coffee the
01:04mad scientist on stage can go epically rock are you able to continue Facebooking while I'm making ice
01:09cream they're timing all of your espresso shots there's a drop of water on the grill you lose a
01:15point for that there's a lot of pressure your adrenaline is so high that I kind of blacked out
01:19I looked down and there was literally no foam in my picture it was at that moment that I realized I was
01:25done it's difficult to make a living at it you walk away with the same paycheck as if you
01:32were slinging a McDouble winning changes your life as a barista you do really well and you can get all
01:38kinds of investment opportunities from it competition is sport your performance is a sport I had nothing
01:44ready on the cart we were running back and forth and we ran out of time once they say your practice time is done you're done
01:49I mean down there you're all alone and what you're capable of even if you're the best is somebody better
01:55than you make some noise for the winner of the USBC if I sketched a Ghostbuster it would be the silliest
02:05I might sketch a Ghostbuster next year

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