I"M NOT A BARISTA: Voices of the Coffee World

The Brewing Guide is alive on Kickstarter, check the link below and support this community project, thank you very much. http://kck.st/3d09x6YJanina Łaszkiewicz is like the water in an espresso puck.“I’m always finding paths to see where I can channel,”she says. By channeling, she means digging deeper to learn more about anything that sparks her interest, whether it’s computers or coffee.Janina Łaszkiewicz is an IT consultant and educator who works with companies to scale their businesses with a

How do you turn a big concept like specialty coffee into content that’s educational, digestible, and entertaining at the same time?Tim Rogg, co-founder and the ‘brawn’ behind The Right Roast, has spent the last decade doing just that. Along with his wife Aiko, who makes up the ‘brain’ behind the brand, the creative duo have devoted their effort into building an ecosystem that unites roasters and consumers alike in an online marketplace that’s designed to grow into something so much more.You can read

Some people are coffee lovers, coffee connoisseurs, or coffee nerds; Binny Varghese is a coffee warrior.He’s known as “the barista on a bike” throughout India because in 2017, he convinced his then boss to let him tour the country on his motorcycle in order to visit every café on their network. The 110-day journey took him 21,000 kilometers through India and Nepal and changed his life in more ways than one. Binny's Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/baristaonbike/Binny's TED

Dominic has been the founder of a design consultancy and tech venture. Now, he’s on to his third company Subliminal. His first Kickstarter campaign Nanofoamer exceeded its funding goal in just four hours. The Kickstarter campaign was 3682% funded, receiving over a third of a million dollars in funding from 5,823 backers.Early on in his career, he had the opportunity to design an espresso machine for a client. He began to research the intricacies of espresso and understand what it takes to make a

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Andrea is a truly inspiring woman and today we’d like to share her story with you, so you can be inspired too. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Andrea moved to Texas in 2010 and used to work as a software engineer for an IT department. In her own words:“Coffee was always my best part of the day at my old job. It was like my best friend for the eight years I worked as a software engineer”.As an enthusiast, she attended coffee courses and barista throwdowns but she also realised coffee shops had a

How much do you know about the barista who makes your cup of coffee?My name is Micky and I’m not a barista. I am, however, excited to introduce the I’M NOT A BARISTA podcast that will shine a spotlight on the role of baristas worldwide who work tirelessly to brew the delicious coffee that powers people every day.I’M NOT A BARISTA is a not-for-profit organization that celebrates the coffee community. Everything we do is to empower baristas who are incredibly passionate about what they do. They