SCAE UK News Updates

Final Call for UK Coffee in Good Spirits competitors

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

The 2013 UK Coffee in Good Spirits competition is scheduled to take place at The London Coffee Festival on Thursday 25 April.

2013 UK Coffee in Good Spirts

Please Note: Subject to minimum numbers being met, the Finals Round only will be held in 2013

The final round requires competitors to produce two Irish Coffees and two coffee-and-alcohol-based designer drinks

At this time only 2 registrations have been received. We require at least 3 entrants in order to run the event.

Online registration for the 2013 UK Coffee in Good Spirits competition closes at midnight on 28 February 2013.

If the minimum number of entrants is not reached, the 2013 UK Coffee in Good Spirits Competition will not go ahead and the 2013 UK Latte Art Championships will be extended to fill this space.

2013 UK Latte Art Championships

A waitlist for this event is already in operation. Please email info@scaeuk.com if you wish to join the waitlist and be notified if this competition will be opened to more entrants.

 

 

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Team UK return from Korea with a trophy

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Team UK returned from the Cafe & Bakery Fair in Seoul with an extra item of luggage in the form of a 4th Place trophy – won by Dan Fellows in the World Coffee in Good Spirits Championships.

Dan Fellows (2012 UK Coffee in Good Spirits Champion / 4th Place World Coffee in Good Spirits) and Liina Nutman (2012 3rd place UK Latte Art) represented the UK, ably assisted by Sang Ho Park, who provided valuable support over the past week.

On behalf of the SCAE UK Chapter we’d like to congratulate both Dan and Liina on their performances and thank Sang Ho for his valuable assistance.

Videos of the performances are available on the World Coffee Events Livestream site http://new.livestream.com/worldcoffee

Registrations will open in December for the 2013 UK Coffee in Good Spirits, UK Latte Art, UK Brewers Cup, UK Brewers Cup and UK Cezve / Ibrik and UK Cup Tasters competitions.

Registration details and further competition information will be available towards the end of November.

 

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UKBC 2012 Midlands Heat Running Order

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

This years Midlands Heat is being held at

The Space – Norwich (Roundtree Way, Norwich NR7 8SQ)

hosted by Mad About Coffee – on Saturday 03 March 2012

We have 13 competitors lined up, and 2 teams of judges to get through them all on time, and leave the Sensory Judges palates intact!

If you cannot make it to the event please follow #ukbcht4 for updates

We are still accepting volunteer applications – please email glenn@scaeuk.com if you are interested

13 baristas are competing and their performance times* are as follows;

Saturday 03 March

  • 0955 Alex Sargeant
  • 1025 Liam Ward
  • 1055 Howard Barwick
  • 1135 Alex Bitsios
  • 1205 Luke Evans
  • 1245 Matthew Roberts
  • 1315 Don Altizo
  • 1355 Ewa Skarbinska
  • 1425 Alex Redgate
  • 1505 Thomas Kettle
  • 1535 Michelle Warne
  • 1615 Neil Scopes
  • 1645 Callum Hale-Thompson

*with 13 competitors this will be an action packed event and times may need to vary slightly throughout the day

Please dig deep for Coffee Kids

We have collected an outstanding £312.79 for Coffee Kids this competition season. Lets see if we can continue to help this worthy cause.

Any donations for drinks consumed on the exhibition machines provided by San Remo and manned by the volunteers and baristas are gratefully received.

Still time to apply for Northern Ireland UKBC Heat

We now have entrants for the Northern Ireland heat on 20 March. Applications for the Northern Ireland Heat are still being accepted too. If you’ve been inspired by performances so far, or the Best Newcomer Prize  sponsored by Union Hand Roasted then please download and fill in an application form as soon as possible.

UK Coffee Events at Hotelympia

If you’re attending the Latte Art or Coffee in Good Spirits events at Hotelympia (hosted by Fresh RM) this week please ensure you have pre-registered to avoid the £30 on the door charge Register Here

Coffee in Good Spirits takes place on Wed 29th Feb, with Latte Art taking place on Thu 01st Mar. Both events start at 1030

We look forward to bringing you results from these events later in the week

 

 

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Coffee in Good Spirits, Cezve / Ibrik and Latte Art Competition at Hotelympia

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

On 29 February and 01 March the Coffee in Good Spirits, Cezve / Ibrik and Latte Art competitions will be held at Hotelympia

The provisional timings are as follows;

Wed 29th

  • 0930 Judges calibration
  • 1230 Coffee in Good Spirits
  • 1430 Cezve / Ibrik

 Thu 1st

  • 1030 Latte Art

We are still accepting entries into each of these competitions.

The following people have entered already. If your name is not on this list and you would like to enter please email Jamie Banwell – events coordinator to reserve your place.

Latte Art

Dave Jones
Matthew Woolley
Sam Dunford
Cosmin Mihailov
Luke Evans
Sam Abdelsalam
Sang Ho Park
Peter Attridge
Davide Burse

Coffee in Good Spirits

Richard Dixon-Teasdale
Oliver Brown

Cezve / Ibrik

As yet we have had no entrants for this competition

Visit the SCAE UK website to download the rules and applications forms for each event.

Entry is only £25 and the odds of winning are pretty good!

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UK Coffee Events Update

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

When the postman that delivers to the UK Coffee Events coordinators address woke up this morning he probably didn’t expect to be delivering a rather large pile of mail. Normally a few letters and bills get posted through the slot, but this time there was a knock on the door, distracting Jamie from his morning brew. He spent the next few minutes signing for the letters (many of which had been sent recorded), and the next hour and a half updating the competitor entry forms for the UKBC, Latte Art, Coffee in Good Spirits, Cup Tasting and UK Brewers Cup competitions.

Sadly the postie hadn’t delivered any entries for the UKBC Northern Ireland Heat or the Cezve / Ibrik competition.

As at 24 January we had no confirmed entries for many of the events

However, after todays flurry of activity we now have;

  • 8 out of 12 places filled for the Latte Art competition
  • 18 entrants for Cup tasting (with a reserve list now in place)
  • 2 entrants for Coffee in Good Spirits
  • 3 entrants for the UK Brewers Cup

Entry deadlines have now been extended until 10 February (unless the spaces fill up earlier)

Entry forms can be downloaded from the relevant competition’s page on the SCAE UK website

Thank you to all entrants who sent their entry forms in. Receipt will be acknowledged early next week once the first UKBC regional heat has been concluded as our focus is on putting the finishing touches in place for this even which starts on Friday.

Good luck to all who are competing in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

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