Coffee celebrities the 10 most influential people in the coffee world

Number 10: Brandon Loppe-the man who made coffee into a movie

The advertising director from Alabama now has his studio in San Francisco. The theme of the first documentary of his life was specialty coffee. To make the documentary, he visited almost every city in the world that is closely related to coffee, from Honduras and Rwanda to Tokyo, New York, Seattle and so on. He went deep into every coffee plantation and used light and shadow to show the growth and processing of coffee to everyone who loved it. The film is definitely a visual feast not to be missed for enthusiastic coffee fans.

No. 9: Andy Moma, founder of Barista Parlor

Founded in 2012, Parlor Cafe sells coffee beans from prestigious coffee roasters such as Stumptown, Counter Culture and Intelligentsia. Earlier this year, Barista Parlor founder Andy Moma said he would open another cafe called The Gulch with Black Keys lead singer Dan Auerbach, which will have a kitchen and a separate baking system. What is even more exciting is that the cafe will become part of the Golden Sound recording studio. The cafe opened in June this year, which is worth looking forward to.

Eighth place: champion of Shuichi Nozomi-- World Philharmonic Coffee Competition

The 2014 crown of the World Philharmonic King belongs to Hideichi Suichi, from Paul Bassett Cafe in Japan, who beat 26 contestants from around the world, such as Peru, Finland, South Africa and the Philippines. The Paul Bassett Cafe in Tokyo, Japan, which was founded in 2006, has a roasted coffee bar in addition to its famous pastry chefs, which features a perfect combination of coffee and chocolate. Xiuyi is here to constantly improve his own Philharmonic coffee recipe, including the use of 78 °hot water and smaller coffee filter paper, and the full integration of hot water and coffee powder.

No. 7: Mariana Costa and Juvenor Ali-owner of the Finca Takesi plantation

The Finca Takesi Coffee Plantation in Bolivia is located in the mountains up to 2450 meters above sea level, which may be the highest coffee plantation in the world. Many varieties of coffee produced here have been highly praised and won many awards in the world. Such a high altitude makes the care of coffee trees very difficult, but it also makes the ripening cycle of coffee fruit very long, which makes the taste and aroma of coffee beans more refined and rich. Many coffee lovers are familiar with the Intelligentsia-baked gesha coffee and typica coffee from here. The coffee, which weighs 150 grams and sells for $60, is expensive but sells at an astonishing rate.

No. 6: Taylor Wells, founder of Blacktop

Taylor Wells, the former founder of Handsome Coffee Roasters Cafe in Los Angeles, has now left the company and began working on his new plan earlier this year. He opened the Blacktop Cafe in April this year, which uses coffee beans baked by Sightglass. The interior of the coffee shop is extremely minimalist and abstract, and the barista's requirements for coffee beans and the production process can be said to be extreme, almost morbid. But unlike Hansome Cafe, people are allowed to add sugar to individual coffee in Blacktop.

Fifth place: champion of the Izaki Xiude Hidenori Izaki-- World Barista Competition

The 2014 World Barista Competition was held in Rimini, southern Italy. This year can be said to be a bumper year for the Japanese coffee industry, and the winner of the world barista competition, Xiude Izaki from the Nagano Maruyama Coffee Company, was honored to be the first Japanese to win the honor. He said that his success was inseparable from the careful guidance given to him by his mentor Kentaro Maruyama Kentaro Maruyama. The tutor set up a coffee roasting company as early as the 1990s and owns five cafes across Japan. Many powerful baristas from Japan are under his door.

No. 4: Kobe Barr and Ryan O'Donovan, founder of Verve Roasters

Founded in 2007, Verve Roasters now has three cafes in Santa Cruz and will open three more stores in Los Angeles this year. Kobe Bryant and Ryan will implement the brand guerrilla store strategy (pop-up shop) in Los Angeles. Does this mean that the brand guerrilla strategy of the bakery that sprang up in Brooklyn, New York last year is expanding across the country? Let's wait and see.

No. 3: CounterCulture Coffee roasting Company

Late last year, Counter Culture Coffee roasting, headquartered in North Cairo, partnered with Modbar to open a new coffee training base in New York, adding a new water filtration system, mixed waste dumps and bicycle storage. Even more exciting is the market research conducted by the company, which involved more than 120 coffee suppliers. At the same time, the survey also gives different versions of coffee flavor wheels needed by emerging micro-coffee roasters for coffee cup tasters to better evaluate the coffee they bake.

No. 2: Doug Zell, founder of Intelligentsia

At first, Intelligentsia was just a small cafe with its own baking workshop. Thanks to its innovative self-imported coffee model, Intelligentsia now has dozens of coffee chains in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, including a recently opened branch in central Manhattan. The cafe uses the La Marzocco Italian espresso machine and Modbar manual drip filter coffee maker, and it happens to be located near the Food Republic studio. We are very happy about this.

First: James Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle

The coffee roaster, founded in San Francisco Bay, now has its own stores in San Francisco and New York. A few days ago, the company gobbled up the Handsome Cafe and announced its move into Los Angeles. Recently, Blue Bottle has gobbled up Tonx Cafe, which has been reported in major coffee industry newspapers across the country.