S4E5: Steve Moloney Is Throwing the Coffee Party the World Needed
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What happens when a music festival producer gets bored with coffee's stuffy competition scene? He starts a revolution.
In this episode, we sit down with Steve Moloney, the founder of The Barista League. Ten years ago, he was done with 4 AM gigs in Swedish nightclubs and dreamed of a coffee event that felt less like a silent exam and more like a vibrant house party. That dream became The Barista League—a global phenomenon that’s been called “a party disguised as a coffee competition.”
But this year, everything is changing. Steve reveals why he's tearing up the rulebook he fought to protect for a decade, shifting the focus from technical perfection to storytelling, service, and raw human connection.
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