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Check out The Coffee Sprudgecast\u00a0on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0download the episode\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The Coffee Sprudgecast is sponsored by\u00a0 Oxo<\/a>, Urnex Brands,<\/a>\u00a0Hario<\/a>, and Swiss Water Decaf<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In this episode, Chai talks to Blair Smith, a Brewers Cup competitor for Augie’s Coffee<\/a> in California’s Inland Empire region. Smith placed 9th overall in the qualifying event, earning a bid to move on and compete at the 2019 US Coffee Championships national event next March in Boston.<\/p>\n Chai also sat down with Hana Kaneshige, a barista competitor representing Counter Culture Coffee<\/a>, a wholesale roaster hubbed in Durham, North Carolina, and Emeryville, CA with satellite training centers nationwide. Kaneshige would also place ninth in the US Coffee Champs Barista Competition field, earning a coveted spot to move on and compete at nationals next year in Boston.<\/p>\n Sign up now as a subscriber to the Coffee Sprudgecast<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and never miss an episode.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Listen, subscribe and review\u00a0The Coffee Sprudgecast\u00a0on iTunes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Download the episode\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Sprudge Media Network\u2019s\u00a0coverage of the 2019 US Coffee Champs is made possible by Joe Glo<\/a>\u00a0and Mahlk\u00f6nig<\/a>. All of SprudgeLive\u2019s 2019 competition coverage is made possible by Acaia<\/a>, Baratza<\/a>, Faema<\/a>,\u00a0Cafe Imports<\/a>, and Wilbur Curtis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sprudge is an official media partner<\/a> of US Coffee Championships.<\/p>\n Follow @SprudgeLive<\/a> on Twitter and never miss a moment from the shows, and cruise over to SprudgeLive.com<\/a> to read routine recaps, enjoy dynamic full-color photos, and check in on all the advancing competitors from Denver.<\/p>\n 2019 Sprudge Live coverage is produced by Zac Cadwalader. Our lead photographer is Charlie Burt. Multimedia direction by Elizabeth Chai.<\/p>\n See y’all in Nashville!<\/p>\n The post Coffee Sprudgecast Episode 62: Live From US Coffee Champs Denver<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a very special edition of the Coffee Sprudgecast, we take you live to the event floor at the 2019 US Coffee Champs Qualifying Event in Denver, Colorado! There we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[63,27,65,33,61,32,59,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2018\/12\/episode-62-cs-1170x750.jpg\")
On a very special edition of the Coffee Sprudgecast, we take you live to the event floor at the 2019 US Coffee Champs Qualifying Event in Denver, Colorado! There we join multimedia director\u00a0Elizabeth Chai, who\u2014in addition to helming our must-follow Instagram<\/a> coverage of the event\u2014taped a series of original interviews for this week’s episode of the podcast.<\/p>\n