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Here are the six finalists for the last weekend's Mountain Regional Barista Competition. (in no particular order).


Yiching Piquet- Cafe D'Bolla
Ian Marquez- Off the Leaf Coffee Bar
Bryan Arndt- Java on Sherman
Jessica Brooks- Allegro Coffee
John Piquet- Cafe D'Bolla
Greg Lefcourt- Ozo Coffee

3rd place - Ian Marquez, Off the Leaf Coffee Bar, Billings, MT
2nd place - Jessica Brooks, Allegro Coffee, Thornton, CO

1st place - Greg Lefcourt - Ozo Coffee, Boulder, CO

Congratulations to all the baristas!

Next week = South East Regional Barista Competition. The SCAA facebook page, twitter, and usbaristachampionship.org are the places to look for info.

Are you a BGA member coming to the Southeast? Then you are invited to a super secret members only event at Octane Coffee Saturday night. What will take place? Well, it's secret, but suffice to say, you don't wanna miss it. There will be a chance to raise some money for the relief efforts in Haiti, so bring at least $5, more if you can. There will be food and drink. There will be, well, that's all I can say at this time. So, plan to be there. Not a BGA member yet, consider this reason #1,987 to join today.
The evite invite is here: http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=OVOKEALZZOOGMRJEIDZG

Everyone who loves coffee should follow this link. "All About Coffee" is a fantastic coffee book written by William Ukers, and Google has recently digitized it.
Download it now! Or just view it online - click here


Recent searches on half.com and ebay, have shown that this book is hard to find for prices less than $150.00. Inside, you'll find endless beautiful illustrations of all things coffee, as well as classic listings (all the hands/steps a coffee bean gets exchanged while making it's way from seed to cup) and a heartfelt thesaurus for all the ways coffee has lovingly been paraphrased.

thanks @mike_white!