Boram Um is the 2023 World Barista Champion, a coffee producer and contender for worlds most handsome barista!
In this podcast Kirk and Boram discuss the challenges of preparing for a world title run, how Boram prepared and how life changed for him after the win.
Boram and his family own Fazenda Um in Brazil from which he produced one of his world championship coffees.
Interestingly, Boram is an advocate for the new changes to the coffee scoring system under the Coffee Value Assessment, which is contrast of a lot of coffee personalties based in consuming countries. Do coffee farmers actually see this as a good thing?
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