1) Give us a brief introduction of yourself.
My Name is Steve, and I buy green coffee for people to turn it brown.

2) What is your favourite thing about the AeroPress?
Easy to travel with, as a green buyer you don't want weight in your traveling bags. Its also great at customs when they ask why you have a pennis pump in your hand luggage

3) If you could have any coffee superpower, what would it be?
I already am a super hero what do you mean ?

4) What would your autobiography be called?
Sorry

5) And who would play you if said autobiography was made into a film?
I’d insist on it being me, but if it has to be someone then Colin Harmon

6) Any hidden talents?
My hidden talent is that I’m good at hiding my talents

7) If you were trapped on a desert island, what 3 items would you need?
Wine, Coffee and Beer

8) Describe yourself in 3 words.
Bad Counter

9) Name of a song that best describes your coffee skills.
Oops I did it again

10) Whats the best coffee experience you've had to date?
Meeting Colin Harmon in the skin

11) If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
Irish Wolf Hound

12) What first drew you to working in the coffee industry and if you weren’t working in the coffee industry, what would you be doing?
No one else would have me, if I didn’t work in coffee, Beggar on the streets, or Village idiot.

13) A fact about yourself that you're embarrassed to admit.
I’m dashingly handsome

1) Give us a brief introduction of yourself.
My name is Vic. Is that brief enough?

2) What is your favourite thing about the AeroPress?
It's portable

3) If you could have any coffee superpower, what would it be?
To conjure magic beans from the air

4) What would your autobiography be called?
Indecisive maybe?

5) And who would play you if said autobiography was made into a film?
Bill Murray

6) What coffee producing country would you most like to visit and why?
Ethiopia - for the story and some favourite coffees have come from there.

7) If you were trapped on a desert island, what 3 items would you need?
3 really nice pillows.

8) Describe yourself in 3 words.
Vic, Fitz, Henry.

9) Name of a song that best describes your coffee skills.
Make me Feel. Janelle Monae

10) Have you ever judged any coffee competitions before?
Yes.

11) If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
A bird, flying would be so deadly.

12) A fact about yourself that you're embarrassed to admit.
I can't drive

13) What first drew you to working in the coffee industry and if you weren’t working in the coffee industry, what would you be doing?
I've never figured that out. I've always just really liked it. Astronaut

14) Any hidden talents?
I do a really good Cher impression.

1) Give us a brief introduction of yourself.
My name is Johnny. Im from Ballymena, Co.Antrim, where my wife, Emma & I and all our beautiful staff make very tasty things indeed in a wee cafe called Middletown Coffee.

2) What is your favourite thing about the AeroPress?
It’s fun, fun, fun and if I drop it, it doesn’t break, cause I’m a little clumsy like that.

3) If you could have any coffee superpower, what would it be?
The ability to telepathically communicate with a customer, that they actually want a filter coffee instead of an americano.

4) What would your autobiography be called?
Inside the mind of a compulsive cleaner.

5) And who would play you if said autobiography was made into a film?Joaquin Phoenix is definitely up for the task. Inside my mind can be a turbulent environment. In a good way though.

6) What coffee producing country would you most like to visit and why?
Colombia! I’ve always been fascinated in Narco documentaries and the global impact that it had/has, plus I’ve had some absolute stunning coffees from Colombia. Not recently though.

7) If you were trapped on a desert island, what 3 items would you need?
An endless supply of peanut butter cause you can live forever on that shit. A Concept 2 rowing machine cause that’s my happy place, and the song from Q Lazzarus, Goodbye Horses on some kind of imaginary speaker cause it does things to me, which is a little scary if you know what scene from a film that its from.

8) Describe yourself in 3 words.
Charming, Impatient, Determined.

9) Name of a song that best describes your coffee skills.
Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy.

10) Have you ever judged any coffee competitions before?
Northern Ireland Aeropress Championships 2016.

11) If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
Definitely a wolf! I can remove myself and enjoy my own company very easily but I always come back to the pack for shits & giggles, and if I get something in my head, there’s no turning me.

12) A fact about yourself that you're embarrassed to admit.
I’m an absolute sucker for chick flicks. Dear John! Like oh my god!

13) What first drew you to working in the coffee industry and if you weren’t working in the coffee industry, what would you be doing?
Everything about this new world of coffee intrigued me. Especially the cafes. Not only were the coffees and food offerings delicious but the interiors were pleasing to the eye, the music was almost always alternative and there were all walks of life coming through the doors. I count myself so lucky to have met some incredible people along the way, and that may not have happened if it weren’t for our coffee industry. If I wasn’t working in coffee, you’d probably find me in a downtown plant shop getting all excited about selling you a green friend. All the groovy tunes would be playing in the background and there’d be a retail vinyl area incorporated so by the time you get home, you can shake those hips while repotting your Monstera.

14) Any hidden talents?
I can totally play the Tuba. I’m a local plant doctor. People actually pop into the shop just to ask me plant questions. I started indoor rowing about 6 months ago, and got fairly good at it, and somehow found my way into two upcoming major competitions. The Irish Rowing Championships in Limerick and the British Rowing Championships in London. Big shout out to my fellow Gladiators at the Colliseum.

1) Give us a brief introduction of yourself.
Julie or Julia Murray (depending from which part of my life you know me from!) A long, lucky life/career in coffee!

2) What is your favourite thing about the Aeropress?
It’s versatility I guess – and the story behind its origins. And the posters for the national competitions (thumbs up Bruno for this year!) I remember seeing the WAC in London 2010 and thinking that it was a crazy competition that wouldn’t last … and here we are!

3) If you could have any coffee superpower, what would it be?
To give coffee a big BS siren (bullshit) – that when someone is ‘bigging up’ a shite coffee an alarm/siren sound comes from the cup!

4) What would your autobiography be called?
Wait’ll I tell ye

5) And who would play you if said autobiography was made into a film?
I would have to play me! Think I could act …

6) What coffee producing country would you most like to visit and why?
China – because that’d be mad!

7) If you were trapped on a desert island, what 3 items would you need?
A never ending brilliant book, a mirror and music.

8) Describe yourself in 3 words.
Fun, not fun … somewhere in between

9) Name of a song that best describes your coffee skills.
‘How soon is now’ The Smiths

10) Have you ever judged any coffee competitions before?
Ah yeah a few …

11) If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
A long spindly one that falls over! That’s me

12) A fact about yourself that you're embarrassed to admit.
I love watching Dr Pimple Popper!

13) What first drew you to working in the coffee industry and if you weren’t working in the coffee industry, what would you be doing?
Coffee and People … and I wasn’t working in the coffee industry it’d probably still be People and something else like wine, or cheese

14) Any hidden talents?
Anyone seen my brush trick?