Photo courtesy of salxhart
Huge congratulations to John Gordon on winning the UK Barista Championship this year. (We know the competition was over a week ago, and we’re a bit behind!)
Having joined the team at Square Mile around six weeks ago we’ve seen first hand the huge amount of effort and work that John put in, with great support from his fiancee Jess.
John had already started working on his UKBC blend with Steve at HasBean before he joined us, and knowing how hard Steve works and how good he is we had no intention of getting in the way of that relationship.
We’d also like to congratulate James Phillips of Dose on placing 5th – impressive considering he wasn’t going to compete until a couple of weeks before and this was his first time at the UKBC.
We were also extremely grateful to Jon Sharp of Kilimanjaro, Carl Fleischer of Opposite and Gary Whiteley who did an incredible job with our coffee in the semi finals.
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Comments ( 3 )
Very impress by John at the competition so precise and control… Fantastic performance superb signature drink, I look forward to see the World Championship in June and wish him all the best from the Bat Team.
olivier vetter added these pithy words on
Mar 09 10 at
7:25 am
Great win for John, he will represent the UK incredibly well at the wbc Im sure. Thank you guys for roasting such awesome coffee!
Gary added these pithy words on
Mar 17 10 at
7:35 pm
I would love to have a taste of his signature drink. I read in another articles that John was born in Australia. Come back mate we need you here (in Australia). Best of luck at the World Championship.
bronk added these pithy words on
Apr 13 10 at
8:20 am
