Authors

James Hoffmann James Hoffmann is the co-founder of [Square Mile Coffee Roasters](https://shop.squaremilecoffee.com) (London, 2008) and won the World Barista Championship in 20... 28 Specialty Coffee Association The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is a non-profit global trade organization formed in 2017 through the merger of the Specialty Coffee Association of Americ... 22 Tetsu Kasuya Tetsu Kasuya is a Japanese barista and roaster, World Brewers Cup Champion 2016 (Dublin). He is the founder of Philocoffea, a roastery and café in Funabashi, Ch... 22 Blue Bottle Coffee Specialty coffee roaster founded in 2002 by James Freeman in Oakland, California. Freeman started by roasting small batches and selling at Bay Area farmers mark... 16 Melitta German coffee company founded in 1908 in Dresden by Melitta Bentz, who invented the paper coffee filter and received a patent for it that same year. Headquarter... 16 Lance Hedrick Lance Hedrick is a US-based barista, coffee educator, and YouTube content creator with over 500,000 subscribers. He works on the wholesale team at Onyx Coffee L... 15 Cafeshi Cafeshi is a specialty coffee shop and editorial project founded by José Manuel Pertuza in 2023, based in Madrid. Pertuza is a certified Q-Grader and SCA barist... 14 Torch Japanese coffee equipment brand founded in 2006 by Takayuki Nakabayashi in Gunma Prefecture. Produces handcrafted ceramic drippers including the Donut Dripper a... 14 Counter Culture Coffee Specialty coffee roaster founded in 1995 by Brett Smith and Fred Houk. Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. One of the early adopters of direct-trade sourci... 9 December Dripper December Dripper is a coffee brewer brand co-founded by Nicholas Cho and Youngmin Lee, launched via Kickstarter in 2017. The December is a flat-bottom stainless... 9 GOAT Story GOAT Story is a Slovenian coffee accessories brand founded in Ljubljana in 2014, when their signature Goat Mug — a travel cup shaped like a goat horn — was fund... 9 MUNIEQ MUNIEQ is a minimalist outdoor gear brand based in Hokkaido, Japan, best known for the Tetra Drip, a folding stainless-steel dripper that collapses flat for tra... 9 Doha Coffee Doha Coffee (도하커피) is a hand-drip specialty coffee shop in Naju, South Jeolla, South Korea, working with high-end beans. Run by a certified barista who has... 8 Jonathan Gagné Researcher in astrophysics at the Montreal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium and author of The Physics of Filter Coffee (2021) and The Physics of Espresso. Runs the c... 8 Onyx Coffee Lab Specialty coffee roaster and café founded in 2010 by Jon and Andrea Allen. Headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas. Known for multiple US Barista Championship titles... 8 Basic Barista Basic Barista is an Australian coffee equipment retailer and YouTube channel based in Melbourne, founded in 2020. The brand focuses on specialty brewing gear fo... 7 George Howell Pioneer of the US specialty coffee movement and founder of The Coffee Connection (1975), which grew to 23 locations before being sold to Starbucks in 1994. Co-f... 7 Graycano Graycano is a German coffee brand founded by Felix Brügmann and Nicole Chabot, known for the Graycano Dripper, a cast-aluminum pour-over dripper handmade in Por... 7 Scott Rao Scott Rao is a US-based coffee author, roaster, and consultant. He is the writer of three reference books that have shaped specialty coffee professionals worldw... 7 Stumptown Coffee Roasters Stumptown Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee company founded in 1999 by Duane Sorenson in Portland, Oregon. The company operates cafes in Portland, Seattle,... 7 Walküre Porzellan Walküre Porzellan is a German porcelain brand with roots in Bayreuth dating back more than 120 years. The company is known in the coffee world for the Karlsbad... 7 Kono Japanese coffee equipment company founded in Tokyo in 1925 by Akira Kōno, one of the oldest siphon makers in Japan. Developed the Kono Meimon conical dripper in... 6 Tricolate Australian coffee brewer brand founded by Dan Shusett in South Australia. Makes the Tricolate, an 80 mm cylindrical no-bypass brewer injection-moulded from Trit... 6 Project Barista Specialty coffee education website focused on brewing guides, equipment reviews, and coffee origin content, primarily covering pour-over methods. Led by Daniel... 5 Tim Wendelboe Tim Wendelboe is a Norwegian barista and roaster, winner of the 2004 World Barista Championship and the 2005 World Cup Tasters Championship. In 2007 he opened T... 5 Brian Quan Brian Quan is a coffee content creator who publishes pour-over brew guides on YouTube. He works on the coffee product side at xBloom and has been involved in th... 4 Carlos Medina Chilean barista and 2023 World Brewers Cup Champion, representing Chile at the World Coffee Championships in Athens. The first Latin American competitor to win... 4 Kaldi's Coffee Specialty coffee roaster and café founded in 1994 by Howard Lerner and Suzanne Langlois in St. Louis' DeMun neighborhood. Started roasting their own coffee in 1... 4 Saint Anthony Industries Saint Anthony Industries is a US specialty coffee equipment maker known for a science-first approach to pour-over. Their drippers are built around a proprietary... 4 UFO Coffee Tools 4 Barista Hustle Online coffee education platform founded by Matt Perger, 2012 World Brewers Cup Champion. Offers courses and resources covering espresso, milk science, water ch... 3 Jeff Verellen Belgian barista and roaster at Caffenation in Antwerp, and the most decorated competitor in WAC history. He defended Belgium at the World AeroPress Championship... 3 Prima Coffee Equipment Prima Coffee Equipment is a coffee equipment retailer based in Louisville, Kentucky, that also produces educational video content on YouTube covering brewing te... 3 Tawans Nui Pour-over enthusiast sharing filter coffee recipes and brewing techniques on Instagram. 3 Voltage Coffee Supply Voltage Coffee Supply is a US-based commercial coffee equipment retailer specializing in new, pre-owned, and refurbished espresso machines, grinders, and brewer... 3 ACE Coffee Roasters ACE Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee roaster based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, operating four café and roastery locations across the city. The company ro... 2 Bialetti Italian cookware company founded in 1919 by Alfonso Bialetti in Crusinallo, Piedmont. In 1933 Alfonso Bialetti designed the Moka Express, a cast-aluminium stove... 2 Crema Coffee Roasters Specialty coffee roaster and café founded in 2008 by Rachel and Ben Lehman. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, operating as a zero-waste roaster with multip... 2 Emi Fukahori Swiss-Japanese barista and 2018 World Brewers Cup Champion, the first woman to win the title. Co-founder of MAME, a specialty coffee roastery and café with loca... 2 Espro Espro is a Canadian company based in Vancouver, BC, best known for its double-filter French press that uses two micro-filters to produce a cleaner, sediment-fre... 2 Heart Coffee Roasters Specialty coffee roaster and café founded in 2009 by Wille and Rebekah Yli-Luoma. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with multiple retail locations. Wille Yli-L... 2 Intelligentsia Coffee Specialty coffee roaster and retailer founded in 1995 by Doug Zell and Emily Mange. Originally based in Chicago, Illinois, with the first café opening in the La... 2 Jackie Tran Barista from the Czech Republic, fourth place at the 2026 World Brewers Cup at the World Coffee Championships in Brussels, where he led Round One. Czech Brewers... 2 Jia Ning Du Chinese barista and 2019 World Brewers Cup Champion, the first Chinese competitor to win the title. Based in Nanjing, affiliated with Uni Uni Coffee. Three-time... 2 Martin Wölfl Austrian barista and 2024 World Brewers Cup Champion. Managing Director at Wildkaffee Austria. Won the Austrian Brewers Cup national championship three consecut... 2 Matt Perger Matt Perger is an Australian barista and 2012 World Brewers Cup Champion. He also placed 3rd at the 2011 World Barista Championship and 2nd at the 2013 World Ba... 2 Nicole Battefeld-Montgomery German barista and multiple-time German national champion in barista, brewers cup, and coffee in good spirits disciplines. Currently working at Next Level Coffe... 2 Pack Katisomaskul 2 Patrik Rolf Patrik Rolf is a Swedish barista, roaster, and entrepreneur. In 2016 he opened April Coffee Roasters in Copenhagen, which has grown into one of Northern Europe'... 2 ROCA Coffee Roasters Specialty coffee roaster in Tokyo, founded in January 2025 by Yuki Yamada. Beyond roasting, ROCA offers café consulting, barista training, and catering. Yamada... 2 Alexander Mills Alexander Mills is a Canadian coffee content creator and barista based in the Niagara region of Ontario. He runs the mobile café Groundswell Coffee Company and... 1 Alexander Scheen Jensen Norwegian barista who finished third at the 2009 World AeroPress Championship with an inverted plunger-circulation technique using boiling water. 1 Alexis Gagnaire Alexis Gagnaire is a French barista who reached the podium at the 2019 World AeroPress Championship in London, finishing 3rd for France in a final dominated by... 1 AMULET AMULET is a coffee shop and florist on Mansfield Street in Partick, the West End of Glasgow, run by Matt Cowie and his wife Isobelle. Cowie spent a decade acros... 1 Anders Hedström Swedish AeroPress Champion in 2021. His winning recipe combines a cold-water pre-wet with a near-boiling main pour, finishing with a swirl-between-jugs aeration... 1 Angie Molina Barista representing France, a finalist at the 2026 World Brewers Cup at the World Coffee Championships in Brussels. Her competition approach centres on "3 Esse... 1 aoma coffee aoma coffee is a specialty coffee roaster in Honmachi (Semba), a business district of Osaka, run by owner-roaster Hiroshi Aono — previously of EMBANKMENT Coffee... 1 Bavis Kwong Barista from Hong Kong, third place at the 2026 World Brewers Cup and Hong Kong Brewers Cup Champion, representing Hong Kong at the World Coffee Championships i... 1 Ben Kaminsky American barista who finished second at the 2009 World AeroPress Championship — only the second WAC ever held — with an inverted, blind-press preheat technique. 1 Benja Khemacheva Thai barista who finished second at the 2019 World AeroPress Championship in London, with an inverted high-dose recipe and an elbow-pressure press. 1 Brandon Smith South African barista who finished third at the 2021 World AeroPress Championship final in Melbourne, with an inverted long-press recipe and an open-kettle bypa... 1 Carlo Graf Bülow German barista who finished second at the 2023 World AeroPress Championship in Melbourne, with a fast 32-stir, two-paper-filter inverted recipe and a back-and-f... 1 Carolina Ibarra Garay Los Angeles–based coffee professional and manager at Café de Leche. Won the 2018 World AeroPress Championship in Sydney — the first World AeroPress title for th... 1 Charlene de Buysere Belgian barista who won the Belgian AeroPress Championship in 2011 and went on to take the 2012 World AeroPress Championship title with a simple, upright (non-i... 1 The Coffee Soldier The Coffee Soldier is a home-brewing blog that publishes detailed pour-over recipes and brew guides. Its approach leans on repeatable visual cues rather than th... 1 Dharun Vyas Indian designer and barista, alum of the Faculty of Design at CEPT University. Won the 2025 Indian National AeroPress Championship and finished third at the Wor... 1 Ethan Junseong Park Barista from South Korea, fifth place at the 2026 World Brewers Cup at the World Coffee Championships in Brussels. His competition approach centres on storytell... 1 Evgeni Pinchukov Belarusian barista who finished third at the 2018 World AeroPress Championship in Sydney, with an upright variation on Xiaobo Zhang's two-grind recipe. 1 Fairul Azonan Malaysian barista and home brewer known for adapting pour-over techniques to the AeroPress. Best known for the Akuma recipe, a percolation-and-immersion hybrid... 1 Filip Kucharczyk Polish barista from Wrocław. Founder of Cafe Targowa at Hala Targowa and co-founder of the Czarny Deszcz roastery. Won the 2016 World AeroPress Championship in... 1 George Jinyang Peng Barista from Guiyang, China, and the 2025 World Brewers Cup Champion at World of Coffee Asia in Jakarta — China's second WBrC title. Owner of Captain George Cof... 1 George Stanica Romanian software engineer and home AeroPress brewer with no professional coffee background at the time of his win. Took the 2024 World AeroPress Championship i... 1 Ingri Margrethe Johnsen Norwegian barista who finished second at the 2012 World AeroPress Championship with an inverted, no-stir recipe and careful attention to settling fines before p... 1 Jamika Mahmoud Egyptian barista who finished third at the 2024 World AeroPress Championship in Lisbon, with an inverted multi-temperature pour technique and a finishing splash... 1 Jan Ahrend Swiss barista who finished second at the 2025 World AeroPress Championship in Seoul, brewing inverted with two paper filters and a tightly controlled press at 1... 1 Jennifer Rui Ping Ho Singapore barista who finished third at the 2022 World AeroPress Championship in Vancouver with a deliberately simple inverted bloom-and-pour recipe. 1 Jeongsu Park South Korean barista who finished third at the 2017 World AeroPress Championship in Seoul, with an upright fine-grind recipe and a metal-plus-paper filter combi... 1 Jeppe Hasager Danish barista who finished second at the 2010 World AeroPress Championship in London with an inverted, gentle-stir recipe focused on bottom-of-chamber contact. 1 Jibbi Little Sydney-based barista, roaster and latte art specialist. Founder of the JIBBIJUG milk pitcher brand. In 2022 she won both the World AeroPress Championship in Van... 1 John Dixon 1 Kata Muhel Portuguese AeroPress Champion in 2018, with a recipe designed to bring out the fruity acidity of light-roasted single origins through a short, low-temperature i... 1 Kaye Joy Ong Filipino barista who finished third at the 2015 World AeroPress Championship in Seattle, with a slow inverted pour at low temperature on a fine grind. 1 Kenzie Chay 1 Kruve Toronto-based company founded in 2017 by Mark Levy. Designs and sells coffee grind sifters, glassware and tools focused on reducing brew variability by separati... 1 Leon Zhang Chinese barista who finished third at the 2023 World AeroPress Championship in Melbourne, using an upright cotton-and-linen filter combination with a vacuum-soa... 1 Lukas Zahradnik Slovak barista based in Komárno who won the 2015 World AeroPress Championship in Seattle, the first WAC title for Slovakia. He was brewing at Green Plantation C... 1 Łukasz Jura Polish barista who started in coffee in 2004 and won the 2007 Polish Barista Championship before moving to Norway to work at Stockfleth's. Took the 2009 World A... 1 Marie Hagemeister Danish barista who won the 2010 World AeroPress Championship in London — the first woman ever to take the WAC title, just two years after the inaugural event. 1 Mariia Stryzh Ukrainian-born barista, coffee educator and content creator based in Vienna. She placed fourth at the 2024 Austrian Brewers Cup and shares brewing recipes and t... 1 Martin Karabinos Slovak barista who finished second at the 2014 World AeroPress Championship in Rimini with an unusual cold-start recipe — a long room-temperature pre-soak follo... 1 Maru Mallee Dutch barista who finished second at the 2021 World AeroPress Championship final in Melbourne, with a firm-stir inverted recipe finished with Rao-style swirling... 1 Nas Jaafar Malaysian barista and 2026 World Brewers Cup Champion — the first Malaysian to win the title — representing Malaysia at the World Coffee Championships in Brusse... 1 Némo Pop French barista and water researcher (Water Wizard at APAX LAB). Won the 2025 Australian AeroPress Championship during a paid internship in Sydney, and then took... 1 Nick Hatch Canadian barista who finished second at the 2015 World AeroPress Championship in Seattle, brewing upright into a chilled cup for a flash-cool finish. 1 Paulina Miczka London-based barista, originally from Poland. UK AeroPress Champion in 2015 and World AeroPress Champion in 2017, taking the title in Seoul while working behind... 1 Pratik Sharma Indian AeroPress Champion in 2022, taking the national title with a descending-temperature inverted recipe built around washed Indian beans. 1 Ralf Rüller German roaster, founder of The Barn Coffee Roasters in Berlin (2010). Known for an uncompromising light-roast Nordic style, single-origin focus, and championing... 1 Shin Kaoju Home brewer who adapted the Vietnamese phin cafe filter ritual to the AeroPress, trading the phin's long slow drip for a long immersion and a short press to lan... 1 Shuichi Sasaki Japanese barista representing Paul Bassett at the time of his win. He took the 2014 World AeroPress Championship title at the world final on the Adriatic coast... 1 Simon Derutter Belgian barista who finished second at the 2022 World AeroPress Championship in Vancouver, with an upright vacuum-pull plunger technique on a dry Aesir filter. 1 Simon Gautherin Barista competing for Australia, 2026 World Brewers Cup runner-up and 2026 Australian Brewers Cup Champion at the World Coffee Championships in Brussels. Co-fou... 1 Sophan Nugraha Indonesian brewer from Batam who won the 2024 Indonesian AeroPress Championship with backing from Otten Coffee, and went on to take runner-up at the World AeroP... 1 Swiss Gold Swiss manufacturer of permanent gold-plated coffee filters founded as Elfo AG — the name comes from "electroforming," the galvanic process the company developed... 1 Tay Wipvasutt Co-founder of Brave Roasters in Bangkok. Won the 2023 World AeroPress Championship in Melbourne, ten years after opening Brave — the first World AeroPress title... 1 Tibor Varady Hungarian barista who finished third at the 2013 World AeroPress Championship in Seattle with an inverted, very-slow body-weight press recipe. 1 Rikuto Tanaka tilt.45 is the handle of Rikuto Tanaka (田中陸斗), a Japanese barista who explores coffee under the banner Explore Beyond Extraction. He shares brewing ideas fr... 1 Tuomas Merikanto Finnish barista at Kahiwa Coffee & Wine in Helsinki. He won his first-ever competition — the Finnish AeroPress Championship — and went on to take the 2021 World... 1 Wataru Iidaka 1 Wendelien van Bunnik Dutch barista responsible for training and education at Single Estate Coffee Roasters. In 2019 she took home the Dutch Barista, Dutch AeroPress and World AeroPr... 1 Xiaobo Zhang Chinese barista who finished second at the 2018 World AeroPress Championship in Sydney with an inverted two-grind recipe — a coarse base topped with a 1g pinch... 1 Yusuke Narisawa Japanese barista who finished second at the 2017 World AeroPress Championship in Seoul, layering coarse and ultra-fine grounds for a deep extraction over a doub... 1