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WORLD COFFEE CHAMPIONSHIP

ANNOUNCED ITS WINNERS

2017 June 13-15, World of Coffee was held in Hungarian Asia! World Brewers Cup Champion Chad Wang (Jascaffe,
International Expo Center, HUNGEXPO. Budapest welcomed Taiwan), World Cup Tasters Champion Lok Chan (Craft Cof-
people from all over the world to celebrate coffee and find out fee Roasters, Hong Kong) and World Latte Art Champion
who is the best brewer, best taster, whose latte art and ibrik coffee Arnon Thitiprasert (Rist8o, Thailand). Of course, we were
are the best. All the competitions were produced by World Coffee there for every competitor, watching performances and cheer-
Events. World Barista Championship 2017 (WBC) will be also ing up, but also we are happy to know that coffee culture in
held in Seoul Cafe Show, South Korea, 9 – 12 of November. Asia grows and develops so fast. One would expect that the
World of Coffee included World Brewers Cup (WBrC), third wave coffee boom would slow down and growth would
World Latte Art Championship (WLAC), World Cup Tasters flatten, yet it never happens. More and more people are getting
Championship (WCTC) and Cezve/Ibrik Championship (WIC). into specialty coffee, learning about it and investing their own
After 3 days of competitions, winners were finally announced energy and ideas and we are happy that Asia is also a big part
and we are proud to tell you that 3 out of 5 winners are from of this process.

World Brewers Cup
2017 Results

● Champion Chad Wang of Taiwan
● 2nd Sam Corra of Australia
● 3rd Stathis Koremtas of Greece
● 4th Michael Manhart of Austria
● 5th Constantin Hoppenz of Germany
● 6th Petra Strelecka of Czech Republic

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