Overview

A Competitor serves 3 different espresso-based beverages within the defined time limit. In addition to sensory evaluation, adequacy, accuracy, and consistency in the whole process through serving will be judged.

A Competitor serves 2 different blended coffees using “Siphon” brewer, which has a long history and culture as a coffee brewer in Japan.

The first Latte Art competition took place in 2006 within the SCAJ show. In 2008, it officially became the Japan Latte Art Championship. In JLAC, visual attributes, service and cleanness as a professional will be judged.

One out of 3 cups is a different coffee from the other 2 identical coffees. Competitors identify the different coffee using cupping skills as quickly as they can

The World Siphonist Championship is a world competition of JSC. It started in 2009 and the number of participants has been increasing. WSC seeks more expansion of siphon coffee and more a internationalized competition.

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It is a competition that will be the first time in Japan 2013 to compete for coffee cocktail, coffee and alcohol.
Competitors provide two glasses of Irish coffee and two glasses of designers drink to the judges and they evaluate the smoothness of its performance, as well as the taste and the look of those drinks.

It is a new program of WCE (World Coffee Events).
Competitors need to describe the beans they are going to roast in advance and the judges evaluate in terms of the roasting technique if they can finish the beans same as they declare.

In Brewers Cup, competitors can choose their brewing devices by themselves, however those have to be manual and may not include or involve mechanical action powered by supplemental forces (i.e., electricity). The competition consists of 2 services, the Compulsory Service and the Open Service.