West Michigan coffee baristas from Madcap, Lemonjello's, Ninth Bridge Market ...
To highlight sweetness, Knapp added grape juice and aerated the espresso with a wine aerator, then filtering it through a tea strainer. Knapp placed third in last year's nationals, and he's hopeful he will do at least as well this year. "For the acidity portion I made an aeropress (a method of coffee-making) over ice cubes infused with tangerine oil," he said. Working in front of clipboard-toting "technical" and "sensory" judges, Scott prepared his signature Spanish drink (con heilo) using tupac amaru, a Peruvian coffee. Knapp had the advantage of competing for the past five years , even before he opened MadCap with co-owner Trevor Corlett in 2008. "As the ice melts and softens the coffee a little bit it yields some of that citrus flavor that highlights the acidity. "My goal was to really learn how the scoring works and what is important to the judges," said Scott, 32, who finished "in the middle of the pack.
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