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Yue Yu Coffee Stories

Yue Yu

Product power all the way   How does an industrial designer go from designing mobile phones to launching the most successful Kickstarter project in coffee history? Yue Yu, self-styled “Fish” because his surname is a homonym in Chinese for the aquatic vertebrate, is the Co-Founder and Design Director of TIMEMORE,…
Tigger Chaturabul
June 19, 2023
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Kiah Parangue

Everyone loves backstage passes; getting the opportunity to see behind the scenes and being part of the structure of events. Being backstage is not always what it claims to be, as it could be more than glamour, but a desire wanting to be achieved. This is Kiah Parangue’s coffee story.…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
June 14, 2023
Deepika Gowda Coffee Stories

Deepika Gowda

The Coffee Wristbands program showcases the unique designs of creatives within the coffee community, all while giving back to the coffee world. Today, we take a look at one of the designers behind the latest wristband design, Deepika Gowda. This is her coffee story. Deepika Gowda From practicing law to…
Andrew Fiel
June 5, 2023
Shelton Aprilette Coffee Stories

Shelton Aprilette

The Coffee Wristbands project showcases the unique designs of creatives within the coffee community, all while giving back to the coffee world. Today, we take a look at one of the designers behind the latest wristband design Shelton Aprilette. This is his coffee story.   “Coffee connects people”   Shelton…
Andrew Fiel
May 15, 2023
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Luca Romito

This coffee story is about Luca Romito, a 29-year-old barista from a small town at the foot of the Euganean Hills in Veneto, Italy, who works as a barista in Padua, one of Italy's oldest cities. He has been working in the coffee industry for six years and hopes that…
Sabine Wanka
May 10, 2023
Serafim Zoukas Coffee Stories

Serafim Zoukas

During the 2022 National Coffee Championships hosted by SCA's Greek branch as part of, Stathis Koremtas was crowned the first-place champion, and George Delichristos took second. The third place award, however, came with a surprise - a psychologist by profession, first-time entrant Serafim Zoukas shocked everyone when he claimed the…
Vasileia Fanarioti
May 2, 2023
Darren Meachem Coffee Stories

Darren Meachem

From tasting his first Ethiopian - washed coffee to placing second in 2019’s Australian Northern regional World Aeropress Championship, Darren Meachem’s journey through coffee goes deep. This is his coffee story.   “Coffee really found me, I wasn’t looking.” Darren-Meachem Taste and the sensory experience really paved the way for…
Andrew Fiel
April 18, 2023
Rivo Trie Septiadiguna Coffee Stories

Rivo Trie Septiadiguna

Unlike most businesses, which value profit over anything else, Endemix Nusantara values its community over making money. This is the coffee story of the face of the coffee business, Rivo Trie Septiadiguna.   Rivo Trie Septiadiguna Rivo has slowly become a constant name in I’M NOT A BARISTA’s operations. He…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
April 5, 2023
Sarah Silvia Coffee Stories

Sarah Silvia

We would have called her the “Traveling Barista,” but she isn’t a barista in her travels, and while she is a barista, she doesn’t travel. From America to Costa Rica, to Spain, we follow Sarah Silvia’s coffee journey and discover how coffee, which she considered disgusting at first, became the…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
March 28, 2023
Emre Kalkan Coffee Stories

Emre Kalkan

Somewhere on the streets of Heidelberg, Germany, lies a one-of-a-kind contraption. Is it a kiosk? Is it a bicycle? Well, it’s both. This is the story of Emre Kalkan. The inventor of the the first environmentally friendly mobile coffee bike. Emre Kalkan Don’t let his sunglasses fool you; Emre Kalkan's…
Oluwatobifunmi Olaniran
March 20, 2023