WBC champion Gwilym Davies: "After I won I realized how little I knew"
Below is an interview from the European Coffee Trip team with World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies. Very nice to watch, inspiring.
At about 25 minutes he tells how he started using a lever machine and had no idea. That's when he started weighing his grounds and his shots and he learned more.
Before that, he had won the World Barista Championship but he says, "After I won I realized how little I knew."
Also tips for beginning barista's and for those wanting to start a business. There are a lot of investors out there but first of all you need to "learn how to use a spreadsheet."
He is a judge now at barista championships and he says he can tell a good barista "from little things -- the flow, the efficiency of his operating the machine. A good barista can make a bad shot, but he will know, and make you another one."
He says most new coffee places are alike, since the "third wave" concept is well established now and bound to make money. But the industry needs to innovate, to kick the asses of the "old people" like himself, he claims.
How to improve: "Admit that you don't know that much."
At about 25 minutes he tells how he started using a lever machine and had no idea. That's when he started weighing his grounds and his shots and he learned more.
Before that, he had won the World Barista Championship but he says, "After I won I realized how little I knew."
Also tips for beginning barista's and for those wanting to start a business. There are a lot of investors out there but first of all you need to "learn how to use a spreadsheet."
He is a judge now at barista championships and he says he can tell a good barista "from little things -- the flow, the efficiency of his operating the machine. A good barista can make a bad shot, but he will know, and make you another one."
He says most new coffee places are alike, since the "third wave" concept is well established now and bound to make money. But the industry needs to innovate, to kick the asses of the "old people" like himself, he claims.
How to improve: "Admit that you don't know that much."
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