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A full summary of the winning performances of each of the 2018 World Coffee Champions from the four championships that took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: World Brewers Cup, World Coffee in Good Spirits, World Latte Art and World Cup Tasters.

Traveling for work takes a whole new meaning in the specialty coffee industry: coffee professionals can travel on origin trips, to cafes and roasteries, and to industry events all over the world. We asked three Barista Champions and Urnex Ambassadors about their must-know coffee travel tips.

Martin Diedrich, the founder of Diedrich Coffee and Kean Coffee, never wanted to follow in his family's footsteps and be part of the coffee industry. But he became the father of the coffeehouse movement and fundamentally changed the way Americans experience coffee.

Baristas get a bad rap for being dead-end jobs. But these three coffee professionals and coffee champions prove that the specialty coffee industry is filled with opportunity to develop a viable and rewarding career.

We are thrilled to announce the participants of the 2018-2019 Urnex Ambassador Program, which aims to educate the specialty coffee industry on the importance of clean equipment through our work with this group of esteemed coffee champions from around the world.

The barista community has gotten a bad rap over the years - they're seen as pretentious, coffee know-it-alls and oblivious to their customers needs. Why has this happened? And what can the specialty coffee community do to reverse this perception and reach ordinary coffee drinkers?

Kaldi's Coffee has been a mainstay in St. Louis for nearly 25 years. But the specialty coffee company didn't get there without some major changes, or without a fierce commitment to its baristas, its equipment and the quality of its coffee.

Sonja Björk Grant has led a storied career in specialty coffee: she is a founder of the World Barista Championship, Vice Chair of the Coffee Roasters Guild, and founder of Iceland's first third-wave café. But her real passion lies in teaching. We feature Sonja in the Urnex Industry Icons series.

We're all familiar with different varieties of wine, but different varieties of coffee are another story. From Typica to Bourbon, Caturra to Catuai, we break down the different traits, origins and tastes of the world's most popular coffee varieties.