Monday, December 21, 2009

Blenz Makes a Splash at This Year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival

Blenz is accommodating in the 2009 Vancouver Fringe Festival as a Signature Sponsor, and accept set up a acting storefront at the Grolsch Fringe Bar and Coffeehouse, area they are alms Fringe-goers beautifully handcrafted coffee, tea, and chocolate-based beverages.

Blenz is demography this befalling to allure the accessible to acquaintance a little aftertaste of coffee ability at Vancouver’s First Annual International Free Pour Latte Art competition.

The basic annular will crop abode Saturday, September 6th, starting at noon. Many bounded coffeehouses are represented, including Caffe Artigiano, Caffe Crema, JJ Bean, Wicked Café, Cito Espresso, and Blenz stores.

The emcee for this accident is Blenz’ own Layla Osberg, backstab all-embracing best chargeless cascade latte artist.

The console of board includes some of Vancouver’s a lot of admired associates of the coffee community. John Sanders, buyer of Origins Organic Coffee and Hines Public Market Coffee, is a longstanding abstruse board affiliate of the World Barista Championship, Specialty Coffee Association of America, and the US Barista Championship. Arthur Wynne of Wicked Café is a certified World Barista Championship judge. Wayne Wright is co-owner of Bravo Coffee Group.

Scoring competitors’ latte art will be based on four abounding categories accretion 50 points; the categories are Colour Definition, the beverage of the authentic white milk cream into the affluent espresso crema, account 15 points, Symmetry of the latte art in the cup, account 15 points, Esthetics or all-embracing adorableness of the chargeless cascade latte art, account 10 points, and Creativity, something altered than the acceptable chargeless cascade rosettas, account 10 points.

Twenty one competitors will be allusive for the top eight spots. Those scoring in the top eight will be arrive to attempt in the finals, captivated September 26th at Library Square in city Vancouver. First cost is an all amount paid cruise to Tokyo to appear the World Specialty Coffee Conference and Exhibition in October. Top performers will aswell be asked to Team BC, a accumulation of coffee professionals sponsored by Blenz who will attempt in coffee competitions on a all-around stage.

Make the Grolsch Fringe Bar and Coffeehouse at the Vancouver Fringe Festival on Granville Island a destination on Saturday afternoon, and watch Vancouver’s finest baristas as they cascade their hearts into their work.

About Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company Ltd™
Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company Ltd is a exceptional banker of handcrafted coffee, tea and added avant-garde and adorable specialty beverages. All of Blenz' beverages are fabricated in-store from alone the accomplished above capacity available. Blenz’ charge to confined a abundant cup of coffee, accouterment an accomplished chump experience, and accouterment world-class agents training, has fueled Blenz' advance from its inception. Blenz operates a arrangement of over 85 authorization locations in British Columbia, Japan, China, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the Philippines.

For advice about Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company Ltd., contact:
Mr George Moen
President
Blenz Coffee Ltd.
Telephone: (604) 682-2995
press@blenz.com

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