50, SLOW IN BOTH
DIRECTIONS AS WELL AS 80.
LISA: PUTTING BARISTAS TO THE
TEST.
SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LATTE ART
TOURNAMENT OR SPLAT IS STARTING
THIS WEEK.
TEO: KCRA 3'S MIKE TESELLE JOINS
US LIVE FROM CHOCOLATE FISH
COFFEE ROASTERS IN SACRAMENTO
WITH MORE ON THE COMPETITION.
DID YOU PITCH THIS STORY?
LISA: NO, I DID.
IT IS MY FAVORITE PLACE.
TELL THEM I SAID HELLO.
MIKE: THIS IS
NOT YOUR ORDINARY
COFFEE HOUSE.
WE ARE PARESIS AT WORK.
-- BARISTAS AT WORK.
THEY'RE DEMONSTRATING WHAT THIS
IS ALL ABOUT.
IT IS BASICALLY SACRAMENTO IS
PUBLIC LATTE ART COMPETITION.
THERE GETTING READY TO SHOW OFF
FOR A SCUM IF YOU WILL, ON WHAT
IT MEANS TO BE PART OF THIS
COMPETITION.
BASICALLY, OVER THE NEXT SIX
MONTHS AT DIFFERENT COFFEEHOUSES
, SPECIALTY COFFEEHOUSES AROUND
SACRAMENTO, THEY WILL BE
COMPETING EVERY LAST THURSDAY OF
THE MONTH FOR THE NEXT SIX
MONTHS BEFORE COMMENTATING AT
THE END OF SEPTEMBER IN A GRAND
FINALE.
-- COLEMAN AIDING AT
THE END OF
SEPTEMBER IN A GRAND FINALE.
AS FAR AS WHAT IS THE WHOLE
POINT OF DOING A PUBLIC LATTE
ART COMPETITION LIKE THIS?
THE COMPETITION IS TO
HIGHLIGHT THE PROFESSIONAL PARIS
STUFF -- BARISTA COMMUNITY.
WE HAS BEEN A LONG TIME
DEVELOPING THIS ART AND WE WANT
TO DEMONSTRATE THAT.
MIKE: WE WANT TO DEMONSTRATE
THAT FOR YOU AS WELL.
THIS IS OUR OWN LITTLE STAGED
COMPETITION, IF YOU WILL OVER
THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, THE LAST
THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH A
DIFFERENT COFFEEHOUSES AROUND
TOWN INCLUDING OLD SO
UL DONE
WHERE YOU GUYS ARE.
I KNOW YOU LIKE TO STOP DOWN
THERE.
WE'RE ON FOLSOM BOULEVARD.
THERE YOU GO.
THAT IS HOW QUICK THEY DO IT.
DANIEL, YOU'RE SAYING AS FAR AS
THE GRAND PRIZE, YOU WERE SAYING
NUMBER ONE, QUITE A VALUABLE
PRIZE.
PROBABLY JUST AS EQUAL OR
LITTLE BELOW, SEMI PROFESSIONAL
HOME ESPRESSO MACHINE WITH
$4000.
MIKE: YOU CAN TELL YOUR
PROFESSIONALS.
WHEN I SAID, WHAT IS THE
VALUABLE PRIZE, YOU SAID THE
MORE VALUABLE WHEN IS --
BRAGGING RIGHTS.
MIKE: YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO
JUDGE YOUR SELF.
WHO WON?
I'M GOING TO GO WITH DANIEL
THIS TIME.
HE HAS BETTER SYMMETRY, SLIGHTLY
BETTER CONTRAST.
MY DESIGN STARTED OUT ALL RIGHT
ON THE SIDES, BUT AT THE END,
THE FOAM CONTRAST GOT A LITTLE
WASHED OUT.
I THINK DANIEL IS THE CLEAR
WINNER THIS TIME.
MIKE: WHICH ONE TASTES BETTER?
MINE.
MIKE: WE
HAVETWO WINNERS, ONE
FOR THE EYE AND ONE FOR THE
LIPS.
TEO:
HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPHER GO IN
DEEPER.
IT IS HARD TO SEE.
LISA: WE NEED A SEE THE ART.
MIKE: HE IS GIVING YOU A --
TEO: PAUL, THANKS.
I THINK THEY'RE BOTH PRETTY
