Wolff Coffee Roasters was the venue for the northside Become A Barista competition this year. Thank you Penny and Peter Wolff for providing such a well-organised area and for sponsoring the beans. Jennifer Yoon (freelance barista & Q grader), Lucas Marciniak (trainer at Jacobs Douwe Egberts) and Denver Lemke (barista at Pablo and Rusty’s) were the coffee professionals who helped Paul with the judging. Here they are enjoying an espresso just before the competition kicked off.
Participants came from the following schools …
- Bayside State College
- Calamvale State High School
- Genesis Christian College
- Our Lady’s College.
Here are the four teams with their hard working teachers …
All the students performed confidently and calmly. They took pride in the finer details of their presentations and we saw some particularly interesting
signature beverages this year. It’s also good to see the students going to a lot of effort with menus and descriptions of their beverages.
The winners were …
- Ruby Devlin (Genesis Christian College) – overall winner
- Ruby Devlin (Genesis Christian College), Becky Healey (Brisbane Bayside State College) and Isabella Hitchcock (Brisbane Bayside State College) – 3-way tie for highest technical score.
- Ruby Devlin (Genesis Christian College) – highest sensory score (overall)
- Ruby Devlin (Genesis Christian College) – best espresso (sensory)
- Isabella Hitchcock (Brisbane Bayside State College) – best milk beverage (sensory)
- Jarod Morgan (Genesis Christian College) – best signature beverage (sensory).
Here’s a snapshot of each of the performances.
Following the competition, we had time for Willy Goh, the roaster at Wolff Coffee to give a brief explanation of what goes on during the roasting process.