About the Championship

The Danes Grand Barista Championship (GBC) were held from May 30 - June 1, 2011.

There is nothing more enjoyable than a beautiful cup of coffee crafted by a passionate barista to make your day. It takes a level of knowledge, skill, creativity and experience to create a beautiful coffee. This year the Danes Grand Barista Championship changed the format to best present a professional barista’s skills and celebrate quality coffee.

Our hand selected judges and their palates will be some of the most highly respected coffee people in the industry. We have chosen the Orchestrale Etnica commercial espresso machine to conduct the championship on for its temperature stability and capability to consistently extract the essence of the coffees potential. Machines will be calibrated to run at 92 degrees Celsius at the head at 9 bar of pressure.

• 4 x espresso coffees
• 4 x espresso based milk coffees
• 4 x other black or non espresso type coffees
• Expresslatte (maximum qty in the remaining time).

Sequence of drinks:
The order for serving the beverages is at the discretion of the barista however the Express Latte beverage must be served last.

Only 1 (one) of the Express Latte will be tasted, and this will be a random selection by the head judge. The balance of the Express Latte beverages will be passed to the audience for sampling. Please refer to the judging guidelines for more details and a deeper understanding for the Express Latte beverage.

The Barista will serve all beverages to a dedicated judging area. The sensory judges will move to the same area to taste and score the beverage. One of the served beverages is for the barista's own evaluation.

For scoring, the Barista will be assessed by 2 technical judges and 2 sensory judges during the heats. In the final event there will be 3 (three) sensory judges. A head judge will be present during the heats and final event to ensure judging is consistent, to adjudicate when and where necessary as well score directly the Express Latte section.

The Barista is responsible for starting and stopping the time clock. If the barista stops the clock within the given 10 minute time frame, no points will be deducted. There is an additional 2 minutes of penalty time available. The barista can choose to use some or all of the two minute penalty time. Please see below a schedule outlining the deduction point system for using penalty time.

If the Barista has not stopped the time clock after 2 minutes of penalty time, the head judge will inform the Barista that time has expired and the Barista will be asked to stop the performance. At this point the Barista will also be informed by the head judge they are disqualified.

The Danes Grand Barista Championship is for the barista and the coffee. Each competitor has ten minutes to complete their presentation. Our new format has the barista training for their presentation right now as they work in their cafe perfecting their skills and honing their technique.  We look forward to the next championship and the baristas who will come to test their skills in Australia's premier barista competition.

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