In our June + July 2024 situation, we function World Barista Champion Mikael Jasin from Indonesia! We additionally take a deep dive into decaf, take a look at higher coaching methods, go one on one with Trish Rothgeb, and far more!

BY SARAH ALLEN
BARISTA MAGAZINE

We’re so excited to launch our June + July 2024 situation! Two years in the past, we featured the identical barista on the quilt: Mikael Jasin of So So Good Espresso and Catur Espresso Firm. Again then, we had been impressed to showcase Mikael due to the distinctive efficiency he turned in because the Indonesian Barista Champion on the World Barista Championship (WBC) in Milan, Italy, the place he selected to make use of solely coffees from his residence nation. This was a daring transfer, because it’s well-known that coffees from Panama and Colombia have dominated the competitors previously. However even utilizing coffees judges had been pretty unfamiliar with on the world stage, Mikael positioned a powerful seventh for his efforts.

However then he got here again even stronger, successful the Indonesian Barista Championship title once more in late 2023 and happening to realize the highest honor in specialty espresso: He received the World Barista Championship in Busan, South Korea, in Could 2024. We all the time function the brand new World Barista Champion on the quilt of one of many six points per 12 months that we publish, and we had been thrilled to have a good time Mikael in our pages once more, and be taught what he had achieved this time to win all of it.

This packed situation of Barista Journal additionally consists of articles on annual planning, creating higher workers coaching applications, digging deep on decaf, a one-on-one interview with Trish Rothgeb, and far more. We’re endlessly grateful for the contributions of the improbable photographers and illustrators, and proficient writers, who created the content material for the pages (paper or digital) of the June + July 2024 situation.

Cowl Function: WBC Champion Mikael Jasin

Mikael Jasin has been an envoy for the Indonesian espresso group for fairly just a few years now by efforts each as a barista and guide, in addition to a champion of Indonesian espresso producers, with whom he works to assist them enhance their harvesting and processing efforts. To see him change into the primary Indonesian to win the World Barista Championship was an exhilarating factor to see—nevertheless it took a whole lot of arduous work, each emotionally and bodily, for him to get there.

’The Secrets and techniques of a Superior Coaching Guide’

Co-owner of the celebrated Cat & Cloud in Santa Cruz, Calif., Jared Truby actually wrote the e-book on coaching manuals for café house owners. On this article, Jared shares his philosophy on approaching coaching manuals to be efficient and fascinating with workers.

’Deconstructing Decaf’

Decaffeinated espresso is experiencing a renaissance proper now, displaying up in barista competitions for the primary time, and in heated discussions about processing strategies. Espresso producers are even in a position to decaffeinate espresso on the farm, and the usual and revered strategies of processing like Swiss Water proceed to face the check of time.

’One on One: Trish Rothgeb’

Trish Rothgeb’s fame precedes her, from being the primary girl in the USA to earn Q Grader certification, to being an inaugural board member for the Roasters Guild, to famously coining the time period “third-wave espresso.“ She can be the proprietor of the profitable San Francisco-based espresso roaster/retailer Wrecking Ball Espresso and a certified Q Coach for the Espresso High quality Institute, and he or she lately launched the corporate Good Type Espresso Educators in partnership with trade veteran Dan Streetman.

And A lot Extra Inside

Additionally within the June + July 2024 situation, you’ll discover “The Knockbox“ specializing in annual planning written by longtime espresso skilled, former U.S. Barista Champion, and retailing professional Laila Ghambari; an “Inclusivity in Espresso“ function about Mikey Rinaldo of New Math Espresso; and far, far more.  

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