London Latte Art Smackdown 2014 - #smackdown14 - Round Two

It appears we have made a fairly serious miscalculation. We did not get enough beer in.

Two heats down and we have to go off to get some more just to be sure we can get through this coming week and Heat Three.

Heat Two was another great success with coffee legends Ben Townsend from the Espresso room and Phil ‘Bass Player’ Wain as judges along with head judge Glenn Watson , 12 competitors and over 35 people crammed into Kaffeine to watch. Cameras ready people.

We ended up with another three through to the finals.

Karolina from Nude

David from Artisan and

James from Iris and June

This week we have another incredible line up of baristas all wanting to get their hands on priozes from Coffee Hit including a Baratza grinder for first place and a rhino hand grinder for second and third, £480 cash from the entry money and untold prizes and trophies from Square Mile.

Tullio – Artisan

Adrian – Look Mum nO Hands

Matt – Climpsons

Louis – Noble

Manuel – Climpsons

Sam – Holborn Grind

Alessandro – Artisan

Jarek – Taylor Street

Gabriel – Noble

Ben – Kaffeine

Renaud – Bristol

This week we have lead judge and superstar Glenn Watson back on decks, accompanied by Pete Garcia and Marty Latham from Square Mile as support judges. We are also very lucky as we have Kate Beard writing for Barista Magazine each week with posts to their blog. Check out a review of the first week here.

http://baristamagazine.com/blog/?p=15182

If you cannot make it along. there have been loads of photos being taken, here are a sample. Many thanks again to Kate Beard (colour) and also to Alessandro from Artisan (b and w).

Peter Dore-Smith
Director
Kaffeine Ltd
66 Great Titchfield st.
15 Eastcastle st.