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The 2024 U.S. Barista, Brewers Cup & Cup Tasters Champions



The U.S. Espresso Championships in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., topped this 12 months’s winners within the nationwide Cup Tasters, Brewers Cup, and Barista Championships.

BY KATE VAN PETTEN
SPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE

After a qualifying around in Houston, one of the country’s absolute best espresso pros collected within the foothills of California’s San Gabriel Mountains at Klatch Espresso for 3 nationwide competitions of the U.S. Espresso Championships.

That is the primary 12 months that the U.S. Espresso Championships had been hosted with out the fortify of the Speciality Espresso Affiliation, requiring extra community-led fortify than ever. “This was once no longer a business-as-usual 12 months for this festival, and so the elevate was once such a lot tougher,” says Debra Kaminski, director of foodservice advertising at Pacific Meals, the name sponsor for the development.

A wide shot of the warehouse holding the U.S. Coffee Champs competition.
Klatch Espresso was once sort sufficient to host the U.S. Espresso Championships for no price of their large new warehouse in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Photograph by way of Kenneth R. Olson.

With many community-donated assets, together with Klatch Espresso’s new 15,700-square-foot warehouse, a various group of volunteers throughout judging, audio-video, time-keeping, and extra, the U.S. Espresso Championships had been hosted at a smaller scale than traditional, independently from the Forte Espresso Expo. There have been many demanding situations ,together with a restricted two-bathroom capability, lacking important apparatus comparable to right kind festival tables, rolling carts, a right kind sound gadget and audio-video group, and extra. Regardless of the demanding situations, the espresso network got here in combination to execute a ravishing tournament, which was once miraculously are living streamed via volunteer fortify on YouTube.

“It is vitally DIY. Just like the zine of competitions,” says pass judgement on and famend espresso skilled Rachel Apple.

With out additional extend, listed below are the consequences for the 2024 U.S. Espresso Championships.

Memhet Sogan celebrates winning the U.S. Coffee Championships Cup Tasters title.
Mehmet Sogan celebrates his win within the U.S. Cup Tasters Championship. Photograph by way of Kenneth R. Olson.

CUP TASTERS

  1. Mehmet Sogan (he/him) – Memli Espresso Lab – San Diego
  2. Tom Bomford (he/him) – Black Fox Espresso – New York
  3. Ryan Sullivan (he/him) – Mostra Espresso – San Diego
  4. Sean Coyne (he/him) – Brio Coffeeworks – Burlington, Va.
Weihong Zhang talks to the judges during his performance at the Brewers Cup at the U.S. Coffee Championship in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
Weihong Zhang in his finals-round efficiency within the U.S. Brewers Cup, which he went directly to win. Photograph by way of Kenneth R. Olson.

BREWERS CUP

  1. Weihong Zhang (he/him) – BlendIn Espresso Membership – Houston
  2. Peace Sakulclanuwat (she/her) – Espresso Venture NY – New York
  3. Pack Katisomsakul (he/him) – Newbery Boulevard Espresso Roasters – Boston
  4. Hugo Cano (he/him) – Amberson Espresso – Indianapolis
  5. Andy Sprenger (he/him) – Candy Bloom Espresso Roasters – Lakewood, Colo.
  6. Marc Chiusano (he/him) – Flux Espresso – Farmingdale, N.Y.
Lem Butler, Bronwen Serna and Heather Perry all former U.S. Barista Champions side by side at the 2024 U.S. Coffee Championships.
U.S. Barista Champs of the previous: From left, Lem Butler, 2016 USBC; Bronwen Serna, 2004 USBC; and Heather Perry, 2005 + 2007 USBCs. Photograph by way of Kenneth R. Olson.
2023 U.S. Barista Champion Isaiah Sheese interviews Frank La after his performance at the 2024 U.S. Coffee Championships.
2023 United States Barista Champion Isaiah Sheese (proper) chats with Frank L. a. after the finals efficiency that received Frank the name of 2024 United States Barista Champion. Photograph by way of Kenneth R. Olson.

BARISTA

  1. Frank L. a. (he/him) – Be Brilliant Espresso – Los Angeles
  2. Morgan Eckroth (they/she) – Onyx Espresso Lab – Portland, Ore.
  3. Jason Yeo (he/him) – Saint Frank Espresso – San Francisco
  4. Kay Cheon (he/him) – Dune Espresso – Santa Barbara, Calif.
  5. Rafael Levy Diner (he/him) – Onyx Espresso Lab – Rogers, Ark.
  6. Meg Skop (she/her) – The Espresso Motion – San Francisco
Barista competitor Morgan Eckroth's signature beverage on a custom serving platform which includes fog.
Morgan Eckroth’s signature beverage, which incorporated an orange blossom, peach, and bergamot fragrant fog performed via a custom-build fog distribution gadget. Photograph by way of Niki Weegens of Onyx Espresso Lab.

Test again the following day to get to grasp one of the champions!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kate Van Petten (they/them) is a creator, musician, and occasional skilled based totally in Seattle. They have got labored within the specialty-coffee trade for years with a focal point on inventive storytelling via advertising. You’ll be able to to find their songs and poems in Espresso Folks Zine, and you’ll pay attention to their debut audiobook, For Any person, on cassette tape or on-line by the use of Hi The us Stereo Cassette. They’re lately an editor and publicist for Poetry Northwest, the Pacific Northwest’s longest-running literary magazine. If you wish to percentage a tale or attach, you’ll succeed in them at katevanpetten@gmail.com.

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