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The Local Way is a new podcast series brought to you by The Alternative Dairy Co with episode 1 on empowerment featuring Michaela Gerard, QLD State Manager at Veneziano Coffee Roasters who shares her experience and provides valuable tips on how women can enter coffee competitions and the judging arena.

 

Every year we select a special coffee to celebrate International Womens Day. The 2023 IWD limited release coffee was sourced in collaboration with Cafe Imports via their Women Coffee Producers project from Argcafee in Colombia.

Timor-Leste faces enormous economic upheaval, as its oil reserves begin to run dry. In its place, coffee is set to become the nation's most vital export. Here at Veneziano we work with some incredible producers including the team at Raw Material (RM) who have provides us with a number of coffee microlots from Timor-Leste over the last 3 years.

Australian Men's Health Magazine recently published their top 5 coffee machines for 2022. Included in the list is the Opal One specialty pod machine from Veneziano.

Dubbed the Master Barista the magazine ranked the Opal One machine a maximum 5/5 for Ease of Use, 4.5/5 for how it works and 4/5 for design.

This week at the heritage-listed Kensington Town Hall built in 1901, ASCA held their 2022 Southern and Western Region Coffee Championships. Team Veneziano was represented by Gabrel Tan in the Barista Championship and David Chun in the Brewers Cup and both performed strongly in their first coffee competition.

Last week under the beating summer sun in Milan at the World Coffee Championships, Dan Shadbolt did Australia and Veneziano proud putting in a consistent and solid roasting performance over the three day contest.

In Dan's first visit to the World Championships he placed in 12th position with a final points score of 458.08. The top three on the podum in order were Felix Teiretzbacher (Austria), Simo Christidi (Norway) and Wisnu Aji (Indonesia).

Jordan Faulkner is co-owner of Whiplash cafe, a former milk bar in and under-serviced pocket of Hawthorn. Jordan has gone into partnership with a number of current and recently retired Collingwood AFL players in this venture including Jordan Roughead, Nathan Murphy, Callum Brown and Brody Mihocek.

Veneziano is delighted to be holding the inaugural Barista Battle competition in Richmond on Thursday 23rd June. 24 competitors will battle it out over three rounds to test their latte art, sensory and pouring skills. First prize is $1,500 plus a Pinnacle pack.

Gabrel Tan, Head Barista for Veneziano Richmond is looking forward to competing in his first barista competition in July at the ASCA Southern Region Championships.

Dan Shadbolt, Operations Manager for Veneziano Coffee Roasters is currently in Milan, Italy competing at the World Coffee Roasting Championships. Dan is competing for Team Australia against competitors from 23 other countries.

He took time out of his final training schedule to speak with the 3AW Breakfast radio team. You can watch the clip below.