Coffee Competition: Taiwanese Coffee's Place in the World

All walks of life are not simple, some professions even have licenses, competitions to let the public recognize or recognize, of course, not necessarily without a license will be better than a license person, everything comes from strength, how much effort to study a field than a mixed license is more meaningful, and coffee in Taiwan is already more and more popular drink, representing more and more people into this field, healthy competition, there will be more and more good coffee, barista appear!

Latte Art

One of the most commonly seen competitions, that is, latte pull flower, English is Coffee Art or Latte Art, in the general coffee shop point latte coffee will also have pull flower, usually love or leaf shape, but the competition through sculpture or barista technology pulled into a different shape, good latte pull flower will make coffee when the mood is more pleasant, even said he is an art is not too much, coffee as a canvas in coffee painting general!

The principle of drawing flowers

Pull flowers is the art of latte coffee, using the characteristics of milk foam to make patterns on it. After brewing, the Italian espresso in latte coffee will produce Crema, that is, small bubbles coated with carbon dioxide. It will support the milk foam to make patterns, and also make coffee brewing more fun. Good coffee not only drinks smoothly, but also gives different visual experiences. Through constant practice in cups, you can have a chance to compete. If you also dream of standing on the world stage, Keep practicing. Many of the winners revealed that coffee is his practice ground and that he takes every cup of coffee seriously because not everyone has the money to make a special coffee to practice.

World Latte Art Championship

The World Flower Championship Competition is the most representative competition. It belongs to the World Coffee Event competition. It is not only the flower in the cup that looks good, but the whole process is like a performance. The preliminary competition includes making a cup of latte with the player's creative pattern in the bar area. As well as two identical lattes and two identical lattes on the competition stage, this creative latte can also be carved and decorated, such as the one with a rabbit in the picture above. The person with high scores after evaluation can win the championship. The score includes the arrangement of the environment, the flavor of the coffee itself, the performance process and the typhoon. It is not only the coffee pattern that can win. After all, none of the representatives of each country who arrived at the competition hall is a fuel-efficient lamp. The comprehensive score is more fair.

Coffee Fest Latte Art World Championship Open

A total of 64 contestants gathered together, competing together like a knockout match. The more exciting one was a one-on-one duel. The opponents in each round would be stronger and stronger. The way of introducing the World Flower Competition was different from the previous one. The scoring criteria are beauty, color contrast, difficulty and creativity, speed, clarity, the higher the score in these scoring items, the easier it is to win, and can not use carving, only coffee and milk to make flowers, and the former is also very different. Taiwan's contestants won the first place in 2015 and 2016. They were won by Milkgilder milk hang gliders from Taiwan. They were very young. Several like-minded friends also opened a shop near Taipei Songshan Airport. If you want to see the champion milk foam, you can visit the shop directly!

Brew Coffee

The skills of hand brewing can be said to be very diverse, each country has a different understanding of the players, each coffee bean, equipment has a different brewing method, the competition is also more interesting, everyone uses the brewing method, flow rate has its own set of patterns, and this is also the Taiwanese often win the world's competition events.

World Brewers Cup

World Coffee Brewing Competition is divided into two stages, the preliminary and final designated brewing and optional brewing two, and in the final to optional brewing, that is, want to see each player in the same coffee beans through different brewing techniques presented by the coffee flavor and optional brewing is the use of their own coffee beans brewed, usually the competition will use the top rose summer coffee, many people in the competition training burned hundreds of thousands in practice, It's not that easy compared to this competition.

The scoring section has wet aroma, flavor, aftertaste, acidity, body, balance and overall impression, while the contestant performance section has flavor description and customer service. Overall, it is also very similar to a coffee service introduction show, except for the flavor of the coffee in hand, it should pay attention to typhoon and expression. In the final of 2016, Japan's Tetsuya Sugaku won the championship. Originally, he loved to drink cola in the electronics industry and suffered from diabetes. He started to study coffee that is healthier for the body. After learning from his teacher, he presented his hand brewing technology; the third place was won by our Taiwanese Wang Ce, which also represents Taiwan's coffee skills in the world. But can not be underestimated. Interestingly, the Nordic female contestant Mikaela Wallgren, who came in second place, used Kenya washed beans and Geisha rose summer coffee, which is very often won. Even this bean is the business bean of Coffee Collection he works for. It is amazing!

Barista Contest

The most frequently touched coffee-espresso coffee, the definition of a cup of Espresso is 1 oz, the preliminary round requires a cup of espresso and a cup of coffee with milk; the semi-final and final round requires a cup of espresso, a cup of coffee with milk and a cup of creative coffee (coffee-based but non-alcoholic), is a technical and creative competition.

World Barista Championship

WBC 2016 won by Taiwanese Wu Zelin, in this so-called coffee Olympics competition to stand out is not easy, in brewing Italian coffee due to high temperature and pressure, freshly brewed Espresso is actually quite hot mouth, high temperature and pressure caused by inevitable, this is also a lot of baristas to solve the problem, if the judges think hot mouth or cup too hot difficult to take will affect the score; However, under Wu Zelin's research, it was found that cooling coffee handles could actually solve this problem, making the Espresso temperature in the throat more smooth and mellow and retaining more coffee flower aroma. Under each coffee brewing method, some people are constantly studying how to make coffee more and more delicious under limited technology. The World Barista Competition is also the temple that baristas strive to aspire to every year. If you are committed to becoming a barista, I wish you success and let Taiwanese baristas become famous in the world.

Taiwan's Coffee Industry: Multiculturalism

In fact, there are many coffee competitions, not introduced one by one, such as the World Coffee in Good Spirits coffee mixing competition, last year by Wu Zelin won the world third;World Coffee Taster coffee cup test competition; coffee roasting competition;Aeropress philharmonic pressure competition; Turkish coffee competition and so on... Taiwanese are working hard in various fields.

In addition, coffee shops in Taiwan are often self-baking, and many variation factors are controlled by one shop. This is the characteristic of Taiwanese coffee. Each coffee shop wants to make its own differentiation. In London, there are only five or six roasting plants, and many cafes in the city all brew the same coffee beans. This is not good or bad, but it makes Taiwan's more diverse and differentiated coffee culture more unique. Every barista, hand brewer, roasting bean master or flower coffee maker has his own spirit of research. In the introduction, each competition stresses one point--characteristics. It is more important to make his own characteristics. I hope that while drinking each cup of coffee, Don't forget that Taiwan has many coffee workers who work hard for coffee and for the country. Drink the coffee in your hand and cheer for these people!