For Counter Culture Coffee’s most decorated barista, coffee isn’t a beverage – it’s an art. Over the weekend Lem Butler, head of wholesale customer support at the Durham coffee roaster, was recognized as the top barista in the nation at the U.S. Barista Championship competition in Atlanta. Butler, whose next stop is the World Barista Championship in Dublin, Ireland, in June, didn’t always take his caffeine so seriously, however. Twelve years ago, before the coffee fame, he was just a barista,… ......
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