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i had a busy weekend so i made a zine about it :] pog!
#my art#art time!#black artist#zine#mini zine#perzine#zinester#c2e2#justin mcelroy#mcelroys#it was a mcelroy heavy weekend#it was actually like two weeks ago#this took a while#this was my project i was finishing before starting/finishing zinebash#zine people please be my friend#im cool i promise#this is my first time actually posting one of my zines here and i think i like this format???
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The Girl Next Door OC Info
Basic Info:
Character's Full Name: Violet McElroy
Nickname: Vi (like bye but with a v)
Birth date: March 19 1990
Place of birth: Corpus Christi, Tx
Ethnic background: She's American with a majority of Irish-Scot ancestry
Religion: Catholic
Current address: House across from Joel's
Brief description of home: Two-story, porch with a swing. Decor is cute, cottagecore style. Lot of gingham, feels cozy and warm. Like laying in the grass on a warm sunny spring day. House smells like baking bread and clean linen.
Current occupation: A electrical engineer who works with a construction company. Same company that contracts Joel and Tommy.
Sexuality (e.g. straight, gay, bisexual, asexual, uncertain…): Straight
Physical Appearance:
Height: 4'11"
Weight: 110 lbs
Body type (thin, athletic, overweight, curvy, muscular, etc.): Petite, skinny but not skin and bones, got some curves that fit her size.
Eye color: Light blue
Need glasses/contacts/hearing aid?: Has Glasses for reading and working.
Skin tone (pale, ivory, tan, olive, ruddy, brown, etc.): Pale
Any prominent features, freckles/moles/scars/tattoos or other distinguishing marks: Small freckles all over body, one on nose cheek, arms, ect.
Whom does s/he most look like (e.g. famous person or relative)?: Emma Watson in Little Women
General health (good, excellent, poor...)?: Good
Any current health problems or chronic conditions?: Type 1 diabetes
How does she dress?: Casual clothing is usually floral and feminie t-shirts tucked in high waisted shorts/jeans. When she wants to feel pretty or going out she wears modest floral dresses.
Describe hairstyle (long, short, crewcut, locs, bangs, side-part etc.):
Long honey-colored hair. Wavy with some curls. Mixed textured.
Speech and Communication:
Voice: Soft, quiet, can be squeaky when excited.
Accent: Slightly Southern. Comes out more when she's angry.
Mannerisms/demeanor: Shy/Meek. When she's nervous she fiddles with her hands or crosses her arms and brings a fist to her mouth. When she says something funny or cheeky she gets a small smirk on her face. Same for when she gets playful or mischievous.
Everyday Habits:
Finances: A bit frugal, a big savor, but doesn't mind spending if needed.
Personal Habits: Smoking, Drinking, Drugs, Gambling, etc.? Are any of these addictions?: Drinks on occasion.
Morning Routine: Describe the character's morning rituals. Wakes up on the early side. During weekdays she gets up, wakes up brother, then get them both ready before driving him to school and then go to work. On weekends she'll let her brother sleep in (To a reasonable hour of course). She would wash her face and get ready for the day but enjoy a. cup of coffee out on the swing while she wears comfy clothes (sweatshirt and cloth shorts for example).
Afternoon/Workday: weekdays she'd be working at the construction company's office, occasionally going on-site to work or help out the builders. Weekend she'd be working in her garden or baking. Hanging out with friends and/or her brother at their place. Just time to chill and relax. Nothing crazy.
Evening: Usually spent cooking dinner and winding down from the day. Work at her desk if needed.
Sleep Habits: Fall asleep easily, or an insomniac? Any recurring dreams? Sleep soundly, or toss & turn?: Falls asleep easily, heavy sleeper.
What is she particularly unskilled at?: Socializing, being assertive, remembering things
Any hobbies (sports, games, arts, collecting, etc.)?: Fishing, playing guitar, baking, and gardening.
Family of Origin:
Mother: Mother had Violet early in life. Was a sweet stay-at-home mom, had a good relationship with both kids. Feminine. Overall a good wife and mother. Died when Violet was 12 from a drunk driver hitting her in a car accident.
Father: Father is a hard-working, good ole boy type. Loves his kids and his wife with his whole heart. Taught Violet to fish and how to play guitar. Works as a farmhand at a farm down the road from their family home. Usually worked from early in the morning to early evening, but after Violet's mother died he threw himself into work even more. Also became an angry drunk. This caused Violet to pretty much raise her brother.
Sibling(s): Name is Graham. 13. years old. Smart and knows it. A huge nerd, plays DandD, loves old tech, like old radios, phones, tvs. Likes to tinker with them. Has so much sass and attitude, but he gets away with it because he's a cute baby face boy with a lisp.
Friends:
Eugene: Same one from the second game but more age appropriate for the group. Met Violet in college. Works as an electrical engineer with Violet. Goofy fun-loving member of their group. Meets tommy at work and becomes close friends.
Robin: Friend from high school who goes on to be roommates with Violet throughout college. Super into the supernatural, conspiracy theories, and cryptids. Grunge style, pretty chill. Down for whatever kind of person. Can be a tad sassy when pushed. Super supportive of all her friends even when its something she doesn't like or care about. She'll be all about it if her friends like it. Works as a counselor at a mental health clinic. Definitely psycho-analysis everybody.
Conner: Another friend from high school. Kind of a metal head that seems goofy and kinda scary and eccentric on the outside but is a soft teddy bear on the inside. Always there for his friends. Similar to Graham in being a huge dork. Loves comic books and movies.
#tlou#joel miller#joel miller x reader#the last of us#the last of us part 1#tommy miller#tlou part 1#joel tlou2#tlou2 fanfic
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Tagged by @tributeofasgard! Tysm this was so much fun!!! 🥰
Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to get to know better.
Name: Rachel
Gender: Currently up for debate lol previously I would have said woman but now I think the most accurate descriptor is woman-adjacent???? Idk man I’m still very comfortable with she/her pronouns but I’m trying out she/they currently!!
Star sign: Libra
Height: 5’10” (which I think is 177 cm??)
Time: 9:16 as of starting to type this
Birthday: October 6
Favorite bands: The Amazing Devil, Marianas Trench, Queen, P!atD, MCR
Favorite solo artists: Hozier, Harry Styles, Jon Bellion, David Bowie, Elton John
Last movie: honestly I’m not sure. I think it might have been Tarzan??? Tho I am planning on watching something with Kristen Stewart this weekend and just haven’t decided what quite yet
Last show: technically it was Jeopardy but as that doesn’t have a plot to it I’ll also say I recently finished a re-watch of Derry Girls
When did I create this blog: aaahhahah I had to check but it was March(?) 2013. that’s eight years baybeee!!!
What I post: a lot of bullshit, mostly
Last thing I googled: lyrics for Work Song bc I forgot a line while singing to my cat last night
Other blogs: I have one from 3-4 ish years ago that I made for school bc I was studying abroad and we were required to have a travel blog and I discovered I’m bad at travel blogging
Do I get asks?: sometimes!!! mostly from jared and marie and jo tbh
Why I chose my url: uhhhhh y’know at this point I don’t remember all the details of the origin story but I do know it started on foopets when I was 10 or 11 and it became the root of all my urls across all platforms and now its been over a decade and rain is deeply entrenched in my identity
Following: 350 (far more than I thought but also somehow less?)
Followers: 365
Average hours of sleep: ahaha probably like 4 or maybe 5?? insomnia is not my friend
Instruments: once upon a time I played percussion in the high school band and I’ve been taught the basics of piano, but I don’t actually actively play anything
What I'm wearing: pj pants and a really old t-shirt!! the pants are fuzzy and have bears and moose on them and my mom got them for me
Dream job(s): author!!! (or wildlife photographer, sheep herder, bog witch, etc.)(but seriously, author. I want to create something worthy of publishing so so so so so badly)
Dream trip: I want to travel the entire world!!! But rn my top destinations are the cloud forest in Costa Rica, the Scottish highlands, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and to return to Peru!!
Favourite food: I suddenly forget everything I’ve ever eaten when asked this question
Nationality: don’t make me say it. please. (American)
Favourite song: My Spotify wrapped would have you believe it’s Like Real People Do by Hozier but it’s ACTUALLY ……… Shrike. by Hozier. because he owns my entire soul.
Last book: Last Night I Sang To The Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz, and it made me cry multiple times and it hurt my heart but in a really good way and I absolutely recommend it but I also warn that it deals with some extremely heavy themes and is not the best to read if you’re not prepared for it
Top 3 fictional universes: like to live in?? or to write/create content about?? either way I have to say lotr bc, come on, it’s middle earth. also probably any universe that exists within mcelroy podcasts and idk if I’m allowed to say it but my owwnnnnnn universe lol I really enjoy the worldbuilding I’ve done for the setting of Oslasil
I don't have 20 people to tag but I'm gonna tag as many as I can think of!! And even if I don't tag you, feel free to do this and say I did tag you!! I crave interaction!!! 🥺
@catladymarie @scorcherman13 @khprisun @jofngve @thisgayneedscoffee @little-bi-kingtrashmouth @magicdecat @gingernastyy @spacegaylra @great--googlymoogly @aph-wisconsin @resident-of-remnant
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taz liveblog under the cut! ^u^
fun fact: the rss feeder i downloaded SPECIFICALLY so i know when new eps are posted didn't work at all, i've been home from class waiting for the new ep for 3+ hours when i could have been listening >:T
on the bright side the only taz related post i saw before listening was "taz spoliers with no context" and then a bowl of french onion soup, so that'll be fun
"well and phandalin-ed" pfffff
oh no mama :(
SNOW :D
aww dani ^u^
wait... so does barclay have big feet in human disguise form too?
aw ned my baby
i only know what a hot toddy is because of UFUT
"for a reason" i am suspicious
is trav on the website? evidently lol
aubrey my precious baby ilu
bonemulcher sounds hardcore as fuck
DO YOU???
t h e s l i p d i p
i can't wait to see the art of that sick flip lol
oh i love this omg
A THUNDERSHIRT
nice shining ref there trav lol
YET. ANOTHER. NICKNAME.
ned you drunk ilu
"big wild dogs" nice doggies
NED STOP TALKING ABOUT BIGFOOT TO RANDOM STRANGERS, YOU KNOW HIM PERSONALLY!!!
oooh new music :o
... well that was surreal
has duck been there the whole time??? oh evidently not lol
"gone to jesus, braxton did" aw :(
"oh god please take me away" bless you ned
i've never had poutine, i bet it's yummy
"no they don't" D U C K
that sounds fun
oh no, that ain't good
awww, dani the concerned potential gf
well this guy's a dick >:T
"rumble!" clint ilu
"gotta defend our boy" bless
well there's where the soup comes in!
can i just say how much i love when justin goes on these little rambling monologues about the people duck knows in town? it just fleshes out the world and duck's character so well and it's so good
amish gruyere sounds tasty as hell
"don't fuck with hubert" god i love this podcast
it what clint???
i have never heard the word waft pronounced like that in my entire life
god this is making me want french onion soup so bad, i'm gonna have to go to panera over the weekend and get some now
ONE XP FROM THE SOUP
"she was slumming it with duck" aww duck baby :(
god damn this is so fucking powerful. leave it to justin mcelroy to turn french onion soup into a metaphor for wanting to keep being alive for fear of missing out. i'm literally crying right now
that said... does this mean ned knows about minerva?
also, if the first time duck saw minerva he was in his teens and he didn't turn her down until he was 18... did he just go along with the chosen thing? just accepted for years that he was going to have to give up his life to save the world? jesus fuck that is some heavy shit
IS THAT THEIR ACTUAL GRANDMOTHER? THIS IS SO CUTE OMG
same, justin, same
♪♫♬ the hornets are gonna rumble tonight ♪♫♬
holice and jake are ex-boyfriends i'm calling it now
welp, holice is significantly nicer
keith is a dick
OH THIS IS BAD, THIS IS VERY VERY BAD
i don't like griffin's plotting dm voice :(
OH YAY :D
OH NO D:
god that's such a pretty image
jesus they are rolling beans today
well this is extraordinarily suspicious
you can always count on trav for those good good roles
"i had some chili earlier" gross
WHY WOULD YOU DRINK A SOUP WITH CROUTONS IN IT NED???
oh snap, wtf is up with this
... this is thacker isn't it
BAD IDEA THERE NED
wait... when did clint roll for ned? isn’t that just trav’s roll?
called it lol
oooooh these are the wilds dani mentioned :o
wait so mama's been in sylvain the entire time???
god this is so good
hells yeah, i'm gonna grab mine from barnes and noble
ooooh is that the liveshow with kravitz? yay :D
oh this is cool as hell
fun, aubrey's got her own lil study zone :)
"or to put somebody that you don't want going anywhere for a while" well that sounded... suspicious. i’m calling it now, griffin’s gonna put them in a situation where they’re gonna need to lock up agent stern
awwww duck ilu my baby
"please remember that you have it" that's the sound of a dm tired of his players forgetting about their magic items for 50+ episodes
some very nifty upgrades here :o
oh dang, who's ned's crew gonna be???
A FANCLUB :D
this sounds choice lol
THE INTERNED
final thoughts: this was a fun interlude! i love all the new narrative developments going down, as well as all the good level ups. also, i can’t believe that justin made me cry over french onion soup, holy hell.
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off the rack #1281
Monday, September 30, 2019
Paul and I have known each other since we were 3-years-old, so 60 years. Our families lived in the same house for a bit after I came to Canada with my mom. Our dads worked together at the Lucky Key restaurant until they both retired. We've always kept in touch even though we're far apart geographically. The very first comic book that I read was a Superman at his house so Paul started me on my love of sequential art. It was a pleasure to spend a little time with him and his wife while they were visiting family this past weekend.
Once & Future #2 - Kieron Gillen (writer) Dan Mora (art) Tamra Bonvillain (colours) Ed Dukeshire (letters). This issue tells us whether the newly resurrected King Arthur is good or evil. With the back cover saying The King is Undead you can probably figure out that he's not nice. Now it's just a matter of seeing how Duncan and his Gran save Great Britain. I hope this gets more interesting than just zombie knights.
The Avant-Guards #8 - Carly Usdin (writer) Noah Hayes (art) Eleonora Bruni (colours) Ed Dukeshire (letters). I hope this isn't the one and only season for this basketball team. I have grown to like them. If you're into Love & Rockets, I think you'll enjoy this too.
Action Comics #1015 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Szymon Kudranski (art) Brad Anderson (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). The front half features Brian's newest creation Naomi asking Superman for help and the back half is Superman fighting the Red Cloud to tie this issue in with the Year of the Villain event. There's a lot of dialogue in here and that's one of my favourite things about reading a Bendis book.
Avengers #24 - Jason Aaron (writer) Stefano Caselli & Luciano Vecchio (art) Jason Keith (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). If I wanted to read a Ghost Rider comic I would have grabbed one off the rack. The Spirits of Vengeance have taken over this title and I'm not a happy Avengers fan. Not only that, but the fight with the Cosmic Ghost Rider turns out to be a massive battle of misunderstanding. What a waste of space. I can't wait until the team saves Robbie Reyes and this story arc ends.
Detective Comics #1012 - Peter J. Tomasi (writer) Doug Mahnke (pencils) Jaime Mendoza (inks) David Baron (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). Mister Freeze and his obsession with his dearly departed wife dominates this issue. Batman's on the case and the inevitable confrontation is just around the corner. I love the spooky art.
Batman Superman #2 - Joshua Williamson (writer) David Marquez (art) Alejandro Sanchez (colours) John J. Hill (letters). It's Batman and Superman versus a Batman Who Laughs infected Shazam. Billy actually wins one for the bad guys and puts Bruce out of commission for a while. I like the good guys' plan to trick the Batman Who Laughs and that they finally used the term World's Finest in this story.
SFSX #1 - Tina Horn (writer) Michael Dowling (art) Steve Wands (letters). Imagine a SAFE SEX neon sign with the A and Es not lit up. That's the title of this new comic book about sexual repression in the US. It's the future where the far right has dictated that any deviant sexual activity is illegal. Anybody caught participating is disappeared. Not a place I want to live in or read about. The book is titillating but the heavy handed regime turned me right off.
Harleen #1 - Stjepan Sejic (story & art) Gabriela Downie (letters). This Harley Quinn origin story really benefits from the $7.99 US larger format. The art is stunning and both Harleen and the Joker look so good I wish Stjepan could make this a regular monthly. I didn't think anything could top The Killing Joke but this story, even though it's just the start, beats it in my book. I can't wait to read the next 2 issues and I might consider buying the collection when it hits the racks.
Wolverine Annual #1 - Jody Houser (writer) Geraldo Borges (art) Marcio Menyz & Miroslav Mrva (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This "Acts of Evil" one-shot story has Wolverine flashing back to 1930s Hollywood and an old love. Turns out she's not the country beauty he fell for. I didn't recognise the villain's costume on the cover so I had to wait until the reveal inside but this fight is so contrived to show Logan in his costume that I rolled my eyes. I think that Marvel threw this on the racks so that they don't lose the copyright on the villain's name. You'll only want this if you're a Wolverine completist.
Strikeforce #1 - Tini Howard (writer) German Peralta (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). This new super hero team did not thrill me. I didn't like the way they were slapped together nor the new group of bad guys that they have to fight. I base my disappointment on how badly this book is written and don't blame the team members. If you want to see Blade, Angela, Spectrum, Winter Soldier, Spider-Woman, Wiccan and Hellstrom kill shape shifters then have at thee.
Powers of X #5 - Jonathan Hickman (writer) R.B. Silva (art) Marte Gracia (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Charles and Erik recruit Emma the White Queen to their fledgling Mutant nation. I can't belabour this point enough; what makes this and House of X so awesome for me is the art. Emma is super hot here and she doesn't have to be falling out of a bustier to look that way. I also like how Forge is rocking the headband. I will be anxiously awaiting the next comic book that R.B. Silva draws.
Absolute Carnage Miles Morales #2 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Federico Vicentini (art) Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Carnage Miles is sent to kill a major character and we get a hint to how this story ends. I don't think Marvel is going to keep Miles trapped in a Carnage body so I don't feel like I need to read the rest of this mini. Plus the major character that Miles hunts down isn't going to die anyways.
The Amazing Spider-Man #30 - Nick Spencer (writer) Ryan Ottley (pencils) Cliff Rathburn (inks) Nathan Fairbairn (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). This one is an Absolute Carnage tie-in which means it's just a big fight between Spider-Man and Carnage. Ugh. It does feature some more hints about the new super villain Kindred however, so that saves the day. I still have no clue who it is though.
The Superior Spider-Man #11 - Christos Gage (writer) Mike Hawthorne (pencils) Wade von Grawbadger (inks) Jordie Bellaire (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Norman Osborn here. Norman Osborn there. Norman Osborns everywhere. The former Green Goblin seems to be the go to super villain in the Spider-Man books nowadays. Poor Otto can't beat the bad guy and he makes a deal with the devil to try and win. A lose-lose proposition I think. The last page is a shocker.
Marvel Team-Up #6 - Clint McElroy (writer) Ig Guara (art) Felipe Sobreiro (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). I loved this team-up with Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel fighting a bunch of Kree warriors. It looks like this is the last issue of this title and I am sad.
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
Photos for Sprudge and Sprudge Live by Elizabeth Chai and Charlie Burt.
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
Photos for Sprudge and Sprudge Live by Elizabeth Chai and Charlie Burt.
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Joe’s Weather Blog: A very wet and not white storm (WED-12/26)
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas…yesterday was the 15th straight day with temperatures above average and today will be the 16th day. We’ll tack on one more tomorrow before we see a temporary change towards colder weather. In looking at the weather pattern over the next couple of weeks…and granted this is speculation on my part…I just am not seeing a set-up for any appreciable snows (over 3″) anytime soon. Several weeks ago I was wondering how things might shake out a bit after the early hits of snow…well this December is making up for the big start…with not much snow (so far). There are a couple of things to watch…one over the weekend and another into the 1st 10 days of January. We’re going to have a problem with coordinating cold air and snow maker systems though…because right now things are out of whack.
Forecast:
Today: Afternoon showers but not as concentrated as this morning. Highs well into the 40s
Tonight: Another round of rain and potential thunderstorms. Temperatures will be steady to rising overnight with daybreak temperatures closer to 50°
Thursday: Rain will be zipping through in the morning hours…windy and warm with highs well into the 50s…maybe some 60s in parts of the area. IF there is sunshine in parts of the area…65° is not out of the question. The colder air will surge through later in the afternoon so we’ll see a fast drop later in the afternoon or early in the evening. It may work out to take down some outside decorations in the afternoon.
Friday: Colder and blustery with temperatures in the 30s
Discussion:
Let’s start with radar…
The better rains are shifting northwards late this morning.
There should be drier times this afternoon with just some scattered showers expected.
The storm that will be moving through the Plains region is now coming into the Desert SW…
That storm will take a track towards the NW of KC…as the NAM model illustrates and you can see this track more clearly as we go up to about 18,000 feet or so.
Take a look at this map…note the “U” shape in the Plains…
That is the storm moving through…also note the strong winds coming up through the area…this is for 18,000 feet or so. Those are 100+ knot winds up there…closer to the surface…the winds above us will be 30-40 kts or close to 40+ MPH and that’s one of the reasons why the stronger winds are likely tomorrow…we could see gusts to about 30+ MPH or so…the key will be if we truly get into the dry slot and clear out the skies enough to stir the air up even more.
Overnight tonight a large area of rain will develop towards the southern Plains and race towards the NNE at a fast speed. I’d show you the HRRR model but I’m having an issue because of the government shutdown that is preventing me from linking to certain sites that auto-update.
The NAM model shows the warmth ahead of the cold front…note the large contrast from east to west. Depending on the timing of the front…it’s not out of the question for those 60s to sneak towards the State Line region.
That colder air will sweep through and we’ll see a marked temperature drop later in the afternoon.
On the colder side of the storm…heavy snow is likely through the western and northern Plains region.
Now I hesitate to post these kind of maps…and obviously things can change rather quickly but I do like to see trends of extremes one way or the other…and for snow lovers…this would be the “other”. This is the 16 day forecast (I know it’s ridiculous) for snow totals off the GFS model…
Ummmm KC has an issue there.
So I wanted to take a look at the EURO ensemble probabilities…and this is for at least 3+” of snow on a cumulative basis. This will carry us over the next 15 days…
Mostly under a 20% chance on the MO side and somewhat above 20% on the KS side…that isn’t overly helpful really in terms of getting anything big around these parts…and that is spread out over 15 days(!).
There will be some additional cold shots of air coming…one towards New Years Day…another towards next weekend. There should be moderation in between though to balance the colder weather.
Frankly it’s not a great pattern for snow lovers.
Our feature photo comes from Caitlin McElroy taken a couple of weeks ago.
Joe
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Stefan Greenberg takes Irish Students Amateur Open
Ulster man Greenberg wins in photo finish
Ulster University’s Stefan Greenberg blitzed the back nine to clinch his first championship, the Irish Students Amateur Open in Bray, by a single stroke. Home in a four-under 32, Greenberg with rounds of 68, 69 and 67 for 214 edged past a spirited challenge from Maynooth’s Ronan Mullarney who signed for 68, 70 and 67.
When the Galway man rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a closing 67 to post a five-under clubhouse target of 205, he led Greenberg by one, but the Tandragee man replied with an eagle three at the 15th to take a one-shot lead.
A par four at the 17th left Greenberg needing a par five at the last, and he duly delivered, finding the putting surface in three and two-putting, holing a nerve-testing three-footer to secure victory.
Maynooth’s Mary Doyle with rounds of 74, 72 and 70 for 216 raced home in the Women’s event, five shots clear of her college team-mate Ciara Casey (73, 77, 71 for 221), while Maynooth Scholars (b) clinched the team title by one shot on 413 from Maynooth Scholars (a).
Europe best in Jacques Léglise Trophy
The Continent of Europe won the Jacques Léglise Trophy for a second successive year by defeating Britain and Ireland 15½-9½ at Ballybunion Golf Club. It is the 12th time The Continent of Europe has won the Jacques Léglise Trophy since the boys international match between the two teams was rejuvenated in 1977. B and I have won the Jacques Léglise Trophy on 28 occasions.
Leading their opponents 6½-5½ at the start of the second day, the morning foursomes were tied 2-2 to give the Continent of Europe a single point advantage at 8½-7½ going into this afternoon’s singles matches.
2017 Boys Amateur champion Pedro Lencart Silva extended the visitors’ lead to two points after securing an impressive 5 and 4 victory over B and I captain Mark Power from Kilkenny. A superb eagle three on the par five fifth gave the 2016 Junior Open winner a one hole advantage which he extended on the sixth with a birdie to go two up.
Despite bogeying the seventh, the Portuguese won a third consecutive hole after Power could only make double bogey and he was four up by the turn after winning the eighth.
Lencart Silva picked up another hole on the 13th to move five up and he closed out the match on the 14th after matching Power’s par to halve the hole.
Eduard Rousaud Sabate chalked up another notable win for the Continent of Europe with a 6 and 4 victory against Luke Harries. Sabate’s compatriot Alejandro Aguilera edged the Continent of Europe to within a point of retaining the trophy at 11½-7½ after defeating Darren Howie from Peebles by 6 and 5.
Debutant Robin Williams collected B and I’s first point of the singles after the 15-year-old secured a two hole win against Sweden’s David Nyfjall to reduce the deficit to 11½-8½.
However, the joy was short-lived for the home side and Norwegian Markus Braadlie ensured the Continent of Europe would retain the Jacques Léglise Trophy after beating Thomas Plumb 4 and 3 to reach the vital 12½ point mark.
The outright win was confirmed shortly after by Matias Honkala after the Finn put the Continent of Europe 13½-8½ up courtesy of an excellent 3 and 2 win against Alex Fitzpatrick.
Rasmus Hojgaard notched up the Continent of Europe’s sixth point of the afternoon singles to nudge his side further ahead at 14½-8½. The Dane produced a two holes triumph in his match against Ben Jones after winning the 17th and 18th.
The 2016 Boys Amateur champion Falko Hanisch defeated Toby Briggs 3 and 2 to increase the Continent of Europe’s lead to 15½-8½. The German won three holes in a row from the 13th and the match finished on the 16th after both players made birdie to halve the hole.
Charlie Strickland salvaged some pride for B and I by beating Adrien Dumont de Chassart 3 and 1 to make the final score 15½-9½ in favour of the Continentals.
Athenry win Fred Daly Trophy
David Kitt might have lost the AIG Irish Amateur Close final the previous week but he was smiling again last week when he helped Athenry win the All Ireland Fred Daly Trophy at Bray Golf Club.
The 17-year-old had a 7 and 6 win over Muskerry’s Sean Geary in Athenry’s 4½-½ semi-final win. And while he lost his match in the final, falling by one hole to Kyle Patton, the Galway side beat Lisburn 3½-1½ to lift the trophy.
Aaron Marshall, Patton and Jack Shellard all won comfortably as Lisburn cruised to a 4-1 over Leinster champions Dundalk in their semi-final.
But Athenry were worthy winners in the final. While Kitt lost, Alan Hill beat Marshall and Cillian Lawless beat Joshua Robinson to make it 2-1 before anchor man Sean O’Connell clinched the winning point with a 4 and 3 win over Mark Stewart.
Tour School for 17 Irish
Amateurs Stuart Grehan, Conor O’Rourke, John Ross Galbraith, Colin Fairweather and Robin Dawson are among the 17 Irish golfers entered for the First Stage of the European Tour Qualifying School.
Dawson is entered at three venues - Ribagolfe in Portugal, Golf Club Bogogno in Italy and Golf d’Hardelot in France - as he awaits his final designation. Royal Dublin’s Niall Kearney is at Flesensee from September 12th-15th with Galbraith at the Roxburghe in Scotland with Mark Whelan and Headfort’s Joe Dillon.
O’Rourke, who is first reserve for the Walker Cup and will turn professional immediately afterwards, goes at Frilford Heath from October 3rd-6th with Grehan, Fairweather, Kevin LeBlanc, Brian McElhinney, Dermot McElroy and Chris Selfridge.
Brian Casey and Peter Williamson are at Stoke by Nayland from September 19th-22nd while Mount Juliet’s Kevin Phelan, Narin and Portnoo’s Brendan McCarroll and David Carey at Ribagolfe in Portugal from September 26th-29th.
Limerick’s Tim Rice and Monkstown’s Cian McNamara are entered at Golf d’Hardelot in France from September 26-29. Mount Juliet’s Stephen Grant is also entered at both the French and Italian venues.
Smith claims Under-16 title
Adam Smith made it a week to remember at Rockmount as the Mullingar teenager won the Irish Under-16 Boys Championship with two shots to spare.
Smith completed a sweet success with rounds of 69, 74 and 73 to finish the tournament on level par, two clear of Slieve Russell’s Odhran Maguire. Joseph Byrne (Baltinglass) and Max Kennedy (The Royal Dublin) were tied for third on four over with Byrne clinching the prize for leading under-15 player.
However, the week belonged to Smith. Level with Maguire going into the final round, the pair began the day at minus one but Smith put down a marker early with four birdies in his first six holes.
Both players began with a birdie but Maguire could not keep pace with Smith on the front nine, who raced to the turn in 34 (-3). A run of three successive bogeys threatened to derail his title charge, and with six holes remaining Smith and Maguire were locked together at the top of the leaderboard.
Just as Maguire started to stumble, Smith regained his composure, making four straight pars, which eased his concerns. And even when his drive went awry at the last, Smith produced the shot of a champion, and sent a stunning iron shot soaring over the trees and onto the putting surface for a two-putt par that sealed the victory.
Cork pair win the Australian Spoons
Despite wet and heavy conditions the Cork pairing of Claire Coughlan Ryan and Oonagh Barry were a model of consistency with 19 points on both the front and extremely tricky back nine at Co Longford Golf Club in a round that had birdies at the par three eighth and par four 15th.
In second place on 36 points were Cristina Rush (19) and Hannah Grant (20) from Claremorris with Caroline Delaney (21) and Mary Dolan (30) from Mountbellew taking third place from Carmel Mullan (33) and Maura Ryan (25) from Elm Park after both pairs finished on 35 points. Last year’s winners Helen Jones and Vivienne Houston (Royal Portrush) won the best gross with 30 points.
Killeen bring home the Metropolitan Trophy for the second time
In the second leg of the Metropolitan Trophy Final at Hollystown Golf Club Killeen Golf Club defeated Hollystown to bring the trophy back to the club.
This was Killeen’s second Leinster Pennant in two years in the Metropolitan Trophy following their victory over Clontarf in 2016. Hollystown, no strangers to victory, had previously taken the title in 2015.
With the upper hand following a 6-3 lead after the first leg, Killeen quickly got a point on the board when Paul Magee won the top match by 2 and 1 against Keith Coffey. Hollystown fought back with wins in the second and third matches but Killeen were too strong, eventually winning by 5½ -3½ for an overall score of 11½ - 6½.
McGeady makes it two wins in a row at Cairndhu Pro-Am
Michael McGeady made it back-to-back successes on the PGA in Ireland circuit with victory in the 36-hole Cairndhu Pro-Am. Trailing by two shots as the final round got underway, McGeady fired a three under par 67 to top the leaderboard on five under par 135 at the Co. Antrim venue. Overnight leader Colm Moriarty (Drive Golf Performance) shot rounds of 66 and 70 and David Higgins (Waterville Links) with scores of 70 and 66 shared second place on 136.
The team event was won by Richard Kilpatrick (Banbridge) and his amateur partners, Paul Steinson, Stephen Watts and Hugh Logue with 175 points.
Mountbellew chase All-Ireland treble
Mountbellew are in line for an All-Ireland treble at Malone GC later this month after winning the Connacht finals of the Intermediate, Minor and Challenge Cups over the weekend, Shandon Park won two of the six Ulster titles - making it through in the Intermediate and Junior Foursomes.
Killarney will be hoping to add to their first All-Ireland Senior Cup title after they qualified for the Senior Foursomes decider.
Qualifiers: Junior Cup: Athenry, Stackstown, Royal Curragh, Limerick and Lurgan. Intermediate Cup: Mountbellew, Carton House, Wicklow Cahir Park and Shadon Park. Minor Cup: Mountbellew, Headfort, Wexford, Lee Valley and Donaghadee. Challenge Cup: Mountbellew, Malahide, Courtown, Doneraile and Royal Belfast. Senior Foursomes: Roscommon, Lucan, Carlow, Killarney and Lurgan. Junior Foursomes: Portumna, Woodbrook, The Heath, Ballykisteen and Shandon Park.
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
Photos for Sprudge and Sprudge Live by Elizabeth Chai and Charlie Burt.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
Photos for Sprudge and Sprudge Live by Elizabeth Chai and Charlie Burt.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
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Looking Back At The US Coffee Championships Nashville Qualifying Event
It’s official. The field for the 2019 US Coffee Championships is set. After learning the first 62 competitors to punch their tickets at last month’s Denver Qualifying Event, we now know the other 70 coffee professionals to round out the field for the national stage of competition, taking place in just a few short months in Kansas City, Missouri.
From a list of 200 coffee professionals spread across five competitions—Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Goods Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Roasters Championship—the field was winnowed down by nearly two-thirds to a tight 70. There were names new and old—both in terms of competitor and coffee company represented—but as they so often do, the familiar veteran names often found their way to the tops of the list.
That’s not to say that the first-timers didn’t make a splash in Nashville. There were more than a handful of those new to competition who walked away with some wooden hardware, poised to take their rightful place as one of the wily vets in the 2020 season and beyond.
We’re still two months away from the US Coffee Championships storming the Kansas City Convention Center in March, and you can expect the 130+ coffee professionals making the trip will use those 58 days to ramp up their practice time and fine tune their performances. We’ve witnessed a lot of coffee competition already, but we haven’t seen anything yet. Now is when it gets really real.
But before all the really really realness, let’s take a few minutes to enjoy what transpired over the weekend. Let’s look back at the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Even in Nashville, Tennessee.
SprudgeLive’s coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo and Mahlkönig. All of SprudgeLive’s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia, Baratza, Faema, Cafe Imports, and Wilbur Curtis.
Barista Championship
A common thread throughout most of the 10-minute routines at the Barista Championship was a general sense of cool collectedness. Participants stayed within themselves even in the face of the oppressive time constrictions. Even though the competition was split pretty evenly between veterans and rookies, the overarching zeitgeist was one of, “we’ve been here before.” The event felt more academic than ecstatic.
Until it didn’t. Competitors like Adam JacksonBey, Rodrigo Vargas, Anthony Ragler, and the undeniable crowd favorite Sara Gill—”you can call me Mama Mocha”—blew the roof off the Track One events space. Their energy was infectious, riling up the otherwise polite crowd into a frenzy of full-throated yowls and even the occasional post-routine interview bum-rush for a 20+ person 4:20 selfie.
Juan Diaz of Deeply Coffee Co.
Amid all the excitement, after the dust settled there was one clear winner: La Palma y El Tucan. The esteemed Colombian farm produced the coffees used by the top three finalists (who all just so happened to go back-to-back-to-back at the end of Day Two). The only other two competitors to use La Palma in the Nashville Barista competition, Juan Diaz and Shane Hess, also found their way to nationals by taking 14th and 16th, respectively.
It’s about as close to a clean sweep as you can expect from a single producer. But the question remains: can they finish the fight or will they lose out to other competition heavyweights like Hacienda La Papaya and Finca Nuguo, the coffees used by the last three years’ winners? We’ll just have to wait until March to find out.
Dylan Siemens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samantha Spillman, Dillanos Coffee Roasters
T. Ben Fischer, Elixr Coffee Roasters
Jenna Gotthelf, Counter Culture Coffe
Rodrigo Vargas, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Isaiah Sheese, Archetype Coffee
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Gisel Alvarez, Monarch
Ryan Wojton, Madcap Coffee Co
Anthony Ragler, Counter Culture Coffee
Kay Cheon, Dune Coffee Roasters
Cris Mendoza, Saint Frank Coffee
Samuel Schaefer, Stovetop Roasters
Juan Diaz, Deeply Coffee Co
Ali Abderrahman, State Street Coffee/La Reunion
Shane Hess, Jubala Coffee
Ben Vollmar, Flatlands Coffee
Rachel Diaz, Flatlands Coffee
Brewers Cup
Much of the talk around Track One (and even extending to Twitter) stemmed from the Brewers Cup, where innovative new brewing techniques found their way onto the stage and into the national round of competition in Kansas City. Most notably, 2017 US Brewers Cup runner-up Chelsea Walker-Watson had the people buzzing with her use of a sous vide bath to help keep her brew at a precise temperature.
Not to be out-innovated, Dune Coffee’s Felix Felix came with his own custom-design brewing device that he made using a 3D printer.
Even amongst the progressive takes on brewing, perhaps the most impressive feet was that of Grace McCutchan, a competitor unknown to the national stage of competition but still able to best seasoned vets Jennifer Hwang, Tyler Duncan, and 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion Ken Selby. She’s become one to watch. Will we have back-to-back newcomers taking it all down at the US Brewers Cup? McCutchan is making an argument.
Grace McCutchan, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jennifer Hwang, Klatch Coffee
Tyler Duncan, Topeca Coffee Roasters
John Kruegler, Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co
Ben Martin, Madcap Coffee Co
Kenneth Selby, Vashon Coffee Co
Cody Barnhart, Vienna Coffee Co
Gunnar Lagenhuizen, Dune Coffee Roasters
Chelsey Walker-Watson, Atlas Coffee Importers
Elika Liftee, Onyx Coffee Lab
Skyler Richter, LAMILL
Felix Felix, Dune Coffee Roasters
Coffee In Good Spirits
After a slow start in Denver, the Coffee in Good Spirits competition found stronger footing in Nashville, where the number of competitors over quadrupled. The competition really ramped up for the second leg of the Qualifying Event stage. Fire, smoke, ice, the drinks here in Nashville looked as tasty as they did dramatic.
Though only in its first year on American soil, if Nashville is any indication, Coffee in Good Spirits is going to be around for the long haul.
Kris Wood, Black Fox Coffee Co
Nathanael Mehrens, Stay Golden
Matt Foster, Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Co
Leo-Charles Salerno, Greater Goods Coffee Roasters
Brodie Lewis, Madcap Coffee Co
Rachel Huffman, Dose Nashville
John Martin, LAMILL
Jen McElroy, Klatch Coffee
Brian Beyke, Quills Coffee
Koji Daremo, The Ruin Daily
Dan Hilburn, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joel Cronenberg, Provision Coffee
Lindy Schubring, Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co
Cup Tasters
In case you needed any convincing that Onyx Coffee Lab is really, really good at coffee competition (and, y’know, their Roasters title, Brewers Cup title, and multiple consecutive Finals appearances in the Barista Championship aren’t enough for you), look no further than the Cup Tasters competition in Nashville. Fielding three Tasters—roughly 1/16th of the total competitors—Onyx nonetheless found all three of those competitors moving on, one in five.
But it would be foolish to make any future predictions at this point. With five competitors correctly identifying all six sets and perpetual finalist Samuel Demisse lurking in the field, this is one is still anyone’s to claim.
Matthew McDaniel, Summit Coffee
Summer Zhang, Onyx Coffee Lab
Aaron Lerner, SkyTop Coffee
Sarah Lambeth, Congregation Coffee Roasters
Brandon Hutchingson, Mission Coffee
Rachel Stanich, Red Fox Coffee Merchants
Bear Soliven, Onyx Coffee Lab
Samuel Demisse, Keffa Coffee Importers
Elisabeth Johnson, Venture Coffee Co
Hyoung Wuk Jung, Loit Café
Jeff Mooney, Folly Coffee Roasters
Jarrett Johnson, Lineage Roasting
Cameron Metzinger, Backyard Beans Coffee Co
Joshua Edens, Onyx Coffee Lab
Helen Choi, Luce Ave Coffee Roasters
Roasters Championship
Roasters Championship competitors found themselves with a unique challenge: how to roast a coffee without knowing a thing about it. That coffee, it turned out, was a natural processed Myanmar, which many competitors found to be quite the sticky wicket. How do you ramp up the sweetness and soften the nuttiness?
Ultimately, it was a nut that the roasters (first) cracked. Having personally tasted multiple roasters’ takes on the coffee—thanks in no small part to the Sprudge Live desk being very, very close to the Roasters Village—I can say that many roasters found that balance. The cups were sweet, not overly heavy, with little to no hint of ferment.
If these coffees are any indication of what’s to come in Kansas City, attendees are in for LOTS of really good coffee.
Amanda Hagenbuch, Rival Bros Coffee Roasters
Jeremy Moore, Bonlife Coffee Roasters
Steve Cuevas, Black Oak Coffee Roasters
Eduardo Choza, Mayorga Organics
José René Martínez, J.René Coffee Roasters
Kenneth Thomas, Umble Coffee Co
Anthony Greatorex, Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Jason Burkum, Archetype Coffee
Matthew Delarosa, Ironsmith Coffee Roasters
Evan Pollitt, Summitt Coffee
Aaron MacDougall, Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Eric Stone, Mudhouse Coffee Roasters
Photos for Sprudge and Sprudge Live by Elizabeth Chai and Charlie Burt.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
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