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		<title>John Gordon &#8211; UK Barista Champion 2010</title>
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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&#8217;re a bit behind!)
Having joined the team at Square Mile around six weeks ago we&#8217;ve seen first hand the huge amount of effort and work that John put in, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2010/03/09/john-gordon-uk-barista-champion-2010/</link>
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		<title>Aida&#8217;s Grand Reserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year Aida Batlle creates an extremely unusual and outstanding selection of the best peaberries from her three farms Kilimanjaro, Mauritania and Los Alpes. With a mix of Bourbon and Kenia grown across the farms, a peaberry selection processed by the washed method bodes for a exclusive profile of crisp fruits, sweet caramel and intense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2010/02/08/aidas-grand-reserve/</link>
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		<title>UBF 7 &#8211; Have you got the brains to match your beans???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being the Ultimate Barista Fighter requires immense intellectual power as well as big tamping muscles. We&#8217;re testing our contestants&#8217; brain cells by putting them through a grueling pubquiz, where the questions will of course center around the who, what, where, why and how of coffee!
This pubquiz will take place on Tuesday the 19th, 7pm, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2010/01/17/ubf-7-have-you-got-the-brains-to-match-your-beans/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Webshop Orders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just wanted to clarify the days that the webshop is and isn&#8217;t shipping on over the Christmas and New Year period.  After an order is placed it is held until the next roast day and shipped then.  Usually we roast and ship every Monday and Thursday, but here are the openings for the rest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/12/20/christmas-webshop-orders/</link>
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		<title>UBF 6 &#8211; Let&#8217;s take it outside Santa</title>
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Columbia Road is a magical place on a Wednesday evening in December, the lovely shops are open but it isn&#8217;t as crowded and bustling as when the flower market is on.
Need another reason to visit?  Join us for the first UBF we&#8217;ve ever held outside!  World Barista Champion 2009 &#8211; Gwilym Davies &#8211; is hosting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/12/10/ubf-6-lets-take-it-outside-santa/</link>
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		<title>UBF 6 &#8211; Take it outside, Santa.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ultimate Barista Fighters must be able to defy the elements in order to prove their worthiness, so we&#8217;re sending them outside, to pour off in the cold, dark December nights&#8230;  On Wednesday the 16th, we&#8217;ll meet in the backalleys of East London (well, at Gwilym&#8217;s cart on Columbia Road, anyway) to throw down in&#8230;. you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/12/09/ubf-6-take-it-outside-santa/</link>
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		<title>A cup per day by Billur Turan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while back we had a visit from Miss Turan who got some greens for her project on how to make a cup of coffee using little or only renewable energy, from roasting through to the finished brew. We think she did pretty great!

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		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/12/08/a-cup-per-day-by-billur-turan/</link>
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		<title>UK Barista Championship Workshop &#8211; 6th January</title>
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Event: UKBC Workshop
Venue: Square Mile Coffee Roasters
273 Poyser Street
London
E2 9RF (Map)
When:  5pm &#8211; 10pm Wednesday 6th January
As you may know we are hosting the South East regional of the UK Barista Championship this year.  There is a pdf download of information about the heat here.
We highly recommend competing (but then we would!), and as part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/12/04/uk-barista-championship-workshop-6th-january/</link>
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		<title>UBF 5: SPOON OF DOOM! The scariest challenge so far!</title>
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Monday the 23rd of November, our Ultimate Barista Fighters- seasoned or fresh to the game- will gather to face a test that very few of them have faced before. This time it’s not about your cups, pitchers, rosettas or ability to pour drinks the fastest, this time it’s all about your tastebuds and your ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/11/16/ubf-5-spoon-of-doom-the-scariest-challenge-so-far/</link>
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		<title>Feeling creative? Design the next UKBC certificates!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who enters the UKBC gets a certificate to thank them for competing and supporting the barista championships, whether they place 80th or 1st! This year we thought it would be fun to let the community get involved a little further, so we&#8217;re now inviting you to design the certificates that everyone will get! You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.squaremileblog.com/2009/11/09/feeling-creative-design-the-next-ukbc-certificates/</link>
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