Some chase money, fame or power. For Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood and his wife Lesley, it’s flavor. From award-winning dir | dG1fTTFtby1vNjRpTUE
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00:00 I was living in England when I first heard about a world barista championship
00:05 and I thought that would be fun to film. My plan was to follow Maxwell, the
00:09 English barista champion, through the world championship in Vienna and then I
00:14 would be done. This is a story about how things don't always work out as planned.
00:21 Maxwell and Leslie's coffee shop is in Bath, England. It's a destination for
00:27 coffee pilgrims who travel to Bath just to drink their coffee. I took my son
00:32 Harry along with me to Bath to help record sound and I discovered he had a
00:36 flair for coffee.
00:40 The herbal brew starts quite acidic, but the finish is a bit bitter, a bit like gin or juniper berries.
00:45 Ok, I'm definitely not going to start.
00:47 Not that one, let's forget about that one. Or the top one, sort of apple-y to start with, but it's a bit heavy.
00:52 Sort of, almost a bit herby, that one.
00:54 [slurping]
00:56 It is just so fruity. Yeah, it's crazy isn't it?
01:02 How you can get a coffee that tastes really coffee-like at the start for like half a second.
01:09 Yeah. And then you go all fruity.
01:11 Yeah, I'll have those up tomorrow, those flaming oats.
01:13 This documentary is going to be about coffee. It's going to be about specialty coffee.
01:19 It's something that people do because, you know, they want to have an ultimate tasty experience.
01:25 And that's why it's called specialty coffee.
01:28 This is who can make the best cup of coffee.
01:31 (gentle music)