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Cow Town, Coffee Town
by Emily McIntyre

In a collision of hipster cool and coffee love, coffee professionals and consumers from a 16-state region met this January in an old repurposed ballroom in Kansas City to celebrate the magical beverage that brings people together and—it turned out—watch Pete Licata finesse his way through the first level of competitions that would lead to his World Barista Championship win, in Melbourne.

The BCRBC (Big Central Regional Barista Championship) was an announcement to the world that Kansas City had arrived, in the culture of specialty coffee. Of course, this was no secret to the hard-working folks who've been roasting and serving coffee in Cow Town over the past few decades.


Kansas City's coffee culture is strong and growing fast: in garages over home roasters made from barbecue grills, in a re-built fire station over bags of coffee directly sourced from farmers around the world, in the heart of the city and in the suburbs. Throughout the city, people from all walks of life celebrate coffee and the people who make it.
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