If Twitter hashtags are any indication, the coffee pros have arrived for the U.S. Barista Championships, and the folks at Serious Eats size up the competitors, who will be tasked with creating 12 coffee drinks in less than 15 minutes. Coava's Devin Chapman, the reigning Northwest Regional Champion, has home-field advantage and tells SE that "if there is any strategy to competition that I employ it is picking the right coffee and understanding it." [SE]
