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Speaker 1: As plenty of you that's potentially work in the hospitality

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Speaker 1: the Goldplate Awards to happen each and every year. They

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Speaker 1: are indeed well part of what the hospitality industry do.

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Speaker 1: Hospitality NT do each and every year to really recognize

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Speaker 1: some of the absolutely amazing businesses that we've got here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory. And there is a category that's

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Speaker 1: the well barista category looking at all the wonderful coffees

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Speaker 1: that we can get here in the NT. And joining

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Speaker 1: little bit more about this category is the judge Kate Dinning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Kate, morning. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well. How are you? How are you going

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Speaker 1: with all the coffees that you've had over the last month.

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Speaker 2: I am very well caffeinated. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been really really fun been judging for the

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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, Kate.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that I'm well caffeinated. I can

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Speaker 1: usually go two or three max them coffee is a day?

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Speaker 1: How many are you're having a day? As you get

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Speaker 3: So I've spaced it out purposely, just so that that

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Speaker 3: I wasn't too caffeinated.

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Speaker 2: But I've been having an espresso and.

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Speaker 3: A latte from each brewister that's entered, So I've been

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Speaker 3: having maximum for a day or sometimes only two, sometimes four,

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Speaker 3: depending if I visit one or two briistters a day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, And how have you been going to have

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Speaker 1: you given yourself the shikes any of those days?

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Speaker 3: I haven't slept that well dedication to the job. No,

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Speaker 3: it's been it's been really good. It's been great. I

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Speaker 3: love the cafe scene in Darwin and it's it's really

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Speaker 3: cool to be able to go and visit all these

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Speaker 3: briisters and learn a bit about what they're doing and

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Speaker 1: And Kate, you are a passionate supporter of the local

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Speaker 1: cafe scene through the my Darwin City Guide and also

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Speaker 1: we are locals. You're very much a self confessed a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always referred to myself as a coffee snob,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, now I get to do it officially, like.

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Speaker 2: I am the official coffee snob, which is great. But yeah.

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Speaker 3: I run a city guide called We are Locals on

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Speaker 3: Instagram and on Facebook and we have a website as well.

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Speaker 2: And when I moved.

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Speaker 3: To Darwin, actually I was trying to find the best

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Speaker 2: And that was how the City Guard actually started.

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Speaker 3: Was that I was like, I need to know where

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Speaker 3: the good coffee is and I can't find that information,

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Speaker 3: so I'm going to create it and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: And that's actually how the city Guide started.

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Speaker 3: So when Hospitality and Tea reached out and said, hey,

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Speaker 3: we know that you've got a bit of experiencing coffee

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Speaker 3: and we know that you like a really good coffee.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to be the coffee judge? I was like, yes,

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Speaker 3: this is like my life goal.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's fantastic. I always think if there's one

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Speaker 1: many entrants are in this section of the gold plates.

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Speaker 3: So we've got fifteen baristers that we're judging, and that's

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Speaker 1: And what are you looking for? You know, is it

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Speaker 2: It's the whole experience.

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Speaker 3: I can't give too much away just in case the

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Speaker 2: And yeah, there's a strict criteria that I'm looking.

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Speaker 3: For for both of those different kinds of coffee. Richer taste, flavored,

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Speaker 2: So it's yeah, it's a process.

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Speaker 1: It can be quite an individual thing too. You know,

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Speaker 1: some people like their milk really hot, others not so much.

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Speaker 1: Someone like their coffee is really strong, others not so much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm trying to bear that in mind. I

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Speaker 3: So hopefully going through that whole process and understanding all

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Speaker 2: Wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Now, Kate, when is there any way that can people

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Speaker 1: see who's sort of into it or anything like that yet? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So I've taken over the Hospitality and Tea Socials this

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Speaker 3: I've been profiling the barrister that's entered as well. So

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Speaker 3: make sure you're following the Hospitality and Tea Facebook and

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Speaker 3: I taste their coffees. And then the finalists and the

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Speaker 3: Festival in August.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff will We look forward to seeing who takes

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Speaker 1: out that award. It's always an incredible night as well.

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Speaker 1: really you know, acknowledged, and even those that don't win.

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Speaker 1: It's just such a tremendous showcase of all of those

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Speaker 3: as well, is anyone that's entered and all of those

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Speaker 3: cafes and all of the wonderful baristers and people that

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Speaker 3: work in all of those venues, making sure that we're

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Speaker 3: profiling them and getting people to head down and try

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Speaker 3: their coffee for themselves too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Kate Dinning, lovely to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us on the show.

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Speaker 2: No worries, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Coffee everyone get amongst us so I love a good coffee.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Kate,