Liang Fan, a post-90s barista, represented China in Brazil's WLAC!

The World baristas Series opened today in Brazil, hosting the World Coffee Brewing Competition (World Brewers Cup, hereinafter referred to as WBrC), World Latte Competition (World Latte Art Championship, hereinafter referred to as WLAC), World Coffee and Spirits Competition (World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship, hereinafter referred to as WCIGS) and World Cup testing Competition (World Cup Tasters Championship, hereinafter referred to as WCTC) at the Brazilian Coffee Show from November 7 to 9.

Speaking of coffee flowers, this should be the first reason why many coffee lovers and even baristas fall in love with coffee. Maybe he accidentally saw a flower-pulling show and fell in love with it, and then fell in love with coffee. But 90% of people don't understand the rules of the flower-pulling art contest. Maybe you are just watching a flower-pulling performance, watching the result of the game, not really watching a flower-pulling competition. What is the key point of a game? do you understand? Today, let's study together.

World Latte Art Championship World Coffee Art Competition is a professional coffee competition launched by the world coffee and event pioneer-WCE (World Coffee Events) based on the promotion of boutique coffee and based on boutique coffee. It is the second largest competition in the world and the highest level professional competition for the art of coffee jacquard.

The event will be introduced to China for the first time in 2013, with a grand opening at the Shanghai International Hotel supplies Expo. The champions selected in China will represent China in the World Series, which is the second wave of coffee competition frenzy in China after WBC.

The procedure of the Coffee pull Competition:

After the contestants take the stage, it is also forbidden to make coffee and foam in preparation. But you can test the steam size and the machine button switch.

At least one cup of work must be completed within 3 minutes. If the time is exceeded, you will be disqualified according to international standards.

32 into the top 16 rule: at the beginning of the competition, the host will operate the timer and the two contestants will finish the operation within 3 minutes at the same time. During the competition time, the contestants can make one or more cups of work, but within 3 minutes, place the finished product in the designated area. The three judges counted down to five seconds, and the contestants favored by more than two judges moved on to the next round, while the other one was eliminated.

16 into top 8 and top 8 into championship rules: at the beginning of the competition, the host will operate the timer and the two contestants will finish the operation within 3 minutes at the same time. During the competition time, the contestants can make one or more cups of work, but within 3 minutes, place the finished product in the designated area. The three judges scored and commented according to the scoring system.

Sixteen contestants scored the first eight points and advanced to the next round

Eight contestants scored the top four to compete for the championship and sub-season

Representing China in the WLAC is the China final champion of the 2018 World pull Flower Art Competition, barista fan, a young barista born in the 1990s. Friends who follow the world-class flower competition should know that Liang Fan is the champion of the China region of the 17 and 18 World draw Art Competition. He has been in the industry for eight years and can be said to be an old driver in the industry.

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Coffee lace not only pays attention to the sense of beauty in visual appreciation, but also constantly improves the way and skill of the integration of milk foam taste and coffee, and then expresses the taste of the whole work. Finally achieve "color, aroma, taste, shape, art" complete artistic effect.

In the 18-year flower-pulling competition, Liang Fan designed a set of cute animals that female customers and children prefer, applying the composition concept of photography to flower-pulling.

Contestants will first provide pre-made pictures of the entries to the judges, which will be used as a reference for grading.

Score according to five criteria: (the score is not divided first or later)

Scoring criteria: 5 points for each item, with a minimum of 1 point. A total of 25 points.

Color contrast

Pattern difficulty

Pattern completion degree

Pattern symmetry

The creativity of the pattern

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Speaking of Liang Fan's experience as a barista, it is also very inspirational.

I remember Liang Fan said in an exclusive interview with Coffee that all the entry patterns have been determined since October 2017, and in December, he began to try the competition process training and make a training plan.

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Since February 1 th, 18 years, we began to train crazily for 8 hours a day, and took a day off for the Spring Festival. Pull flower training process is both lonely and painful, fingers grinding out of a hard cocoon, one day even reached 200-300 cups of practice, because holding the vat for a long time, the wrist has been injured.

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Liang Fan was exposed to coffee in 2011. At that time, I learned the basic production of coffee products in a coffee vocational training school, and then went to work in a cafe, starting with waiters, washing cups, learning to make drinks and cutting fruit bowls. At that time, the first month's salary was 1200 yuan, slowly to the bar management. From 2011 to 2012, he became the head of the bar from an ordinary barista, and began to participate in large and small flower drawing competitions to accumulate competition experience.

Pre-competition practice is essential in every competition.

It is easy to achieve a similarity of seven or eight points in the same pattern, but it is almost impossible to be exactly the same. In the pre-competition exercise, in order to find the problems that you did not find in the process of flower drawing, and then solve them.

The basic movements are often ignored by the contestants. In fact, the success or failure of a cup of flower drawing has been determined from the beginning of the production of espresso, so we have to understand every small move in order to compare our movements with our goals (patterns).

To practice the composition of the pattern, when the milk foam turns into a line, we need to know which part of the flower this line will become, because the height, position, shaking, tilt angle and injection volume of the box are related.

Even for veteran drivers, training is actually a high-intensity exercise for every contestant, which requires a step-by-step analysis of the process of making coffee.

Every little thing on the field will affect the development of the contestants. The usual practice of flower drawing is to practice ourselves into muscle memory. Even if we don't think about it deliberately, we can also complete the action of making coffee and flower drawing like a cloud. In case we don't have a good rest before the game or get nervous on the field, we can also finish the game smoothly through muscle memory.

Every creator is a painter, a cup of espresso and a portion of milk can make a mediocre cup of coffee with extremely exquisite patterns.

I wish Liang Fan every success! The harder you work, the luckier you are!

Thanks for the pictures and videos provided by teacher Liang Fan.