A Costa Coffee Oman barista has been recognised as one of the most-skilled coffee makers in MENA after winning Costa Coffee’s Barista of the Year MENA Final 2015. Aubrhey Rosales showed off his flair and passion for coffee, by creating a full-range of hand-crafted coffee based drinks including the Flat White and his own speciality drink to wow the judges and win the final.
He will now be flown to London to compete in the prestigious Champion of Champion Finals in January 2016, in a bid to be crowned the best Costa Coffee Barista in the world.
The 24 year old Barista from the Philippines who has worked for Costa for the past one year, not only demonstrated his coffee making skills by hand-crafting a variety of coffees to Costa brand standard but he also created his own drink – the Espresso Gassata.
Inspired by his enthusiasm and love for innovating coffee to take the crafting coffee into the next level, Rosales created a mango flavoured carbonated coffee with a twist of spicy aftertaste and used cascara as a bridge to connect the coffee and fruity sweetness of mango creating a pleasant tingling sensation on the tongue.
The Champion of Champions Final will be held at Tobacco Dock in London on January 20, 2016, marking the tenth anniversary of the prestigious competition.
If Aubrhey Rosales is crowned the champion he will win a ten-day trip for two with spending money to a country of his choice with a Costa connection, in addition to worldwide praise from the staff in Costa’s 3,100 global stores.
Previous winners of the competition have since gone on to undertake roles across the Costa business.
