Hello Judges Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, I chat with Graziano Moroni, Arran Stein, Edita Chodarcevic, Trent Rollings, Mat North, Bryan Serwatka, Nicola Peacock, Serafin Bill, David Leeper, Bank, Sierra Yeo, Daniele Ricci, Joe Sheppard-Brown and Raf Mlodzianowski about their experiences with disqualification.

A great, slightly longer-than-usual episode with loads of stories and watch-outs from every side of the table.

I really enjoyed making this one and hearing everyone's stories.

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In this episode, I chat with Trent Rollings from Simpler Coffee.

Check out Simpler Coffee at https://www.simpler.coffee/

Trent has been a judge in multiple countries for many years and recently became a WCE rep. In this episode, I manage to pull out some absolute gems of handy knowledge from Trent's brain that would be useful to any competitor.

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In this episode, I chat with Stephen about his competition history (and success!) across Brewers, Aeropress and Roasting.

Check out Stephen's roastery Lucid:

https://www.lucidcoffeeroasters.com/

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In this episode, I chat with Boram Um about winning WBC in Athens this year and how he got there. I try and get into some of the nerdy nitty gritty about technique, prep time and more.

Apologies due to lag in our connection there is a bit of over-lap in our dialogue.

Check out Boram's family business:

https://www.umcoffeeco.com.br/

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PS - yet ANOTHER shout-out for Dale Harris' 2017 world championship-winning routine, watch below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW3a6QKpjLg

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In this episode, I chat with Wendelien Van Bunnik about competing, MC'ing and forming a community of like-minded people who have got your back.

Wendelien is an independent trainer, consultant, MC, and founder of the happy coffee network.

https://wendelienvanbunnik.com/

https://thehappycoffeenetwork.com/join/

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PS - if you've ever wondered what animal world barista champion Pete Licata would be, watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVZ8xVUD2k

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In this episode, I chat with Zoe Williams about competing in UK Barista Championship for the first time and coming 2nd!

Zoe works for Clifton Coffee in Bristol.

https://cliftoncoffee.co.uk/

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In this episode, I chat with Midori Fujimoto about winning the UK Cup Tasters Championships and preparing for the world championships in Greece.

Midori works for Ozone Coffee and is the face of HasBean's In My Mug subscription.

https://ozonecoffee.co.uk/

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In this episode, I chat with Ben Put about winning the Canadian Barista Championships and preparing for WBC in Greece.

Ben is the co-founder of Monogram Coffee in Calgary, Alberta, Canada:

https://monogramcoffee.com/

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In this episode, I chat with Janis Podins about winning coffee masters as well as other comps and competition culture at Coffee Collective.

Janis has competed so many times, with great success across multiple competitions so has a lot of experience to draw some helpful nuggets from.

Janis works for Coffee Collective in Denmark:

https://coffeecollective.dk/shop/

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In this episode, I chat with reigning Finnish Barista Champion Kaapo Paavolainen about competing at WBC in Milan as well as his new project One Day Competitors.

There are lots of great insights for both Barista and Brewers competitions be learned from this episode, I hope you enjoy it.

Kaapo is the founder of One Day Coffee in Helsinki:

https://onedaycoffee.co/

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