Imagine a brew of coffee that has a blueberry and coriander seed aroma, with flavor notes of red grapefruit, raspberry and sugar cane. With a blackberry aftertaste.

It was that cup of joe that nabbed Klatch Coffee’s Todd Goldsworthy the recognition of best coffee brewer in the nation.

“It took a day to really sink in,” Goldsworthy, who serves as Klatch’s coffee guru, said Wednesday afternoon.

Goldsworthy was named the U.S. Brewers Cup Champion on Sunday in Atlanta. It is the second time in three years that Goldsworthy has won the title, first winning the competition in 2014.

About three weeks before the competition, Goldsworthy traveled to Panama to not only pick the coffee – naturally processed Geisha beans from Hacienda La Esmeralda – but to see when and how the coffee beans were picked.

Goldsworthy said the reason for the extensive preparation was so he could give the three judges as many details during his 10-minute presentation, leaving no questions.

“When I walked off the stage, I had said everything I wanted to say,” he said. “Everything went the way I had hoped it would.”

Competing against 24 of the top brewers in the country, the recent victory shows that time and time again the family-owned company is one of the best coffee companies in Southern California, said co-owner Mike Perry. The coffeehouse has locations in Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, San Dimas, Los Angeles International Airport and Korea.

“It’s nice to not only be the best in SoCal but the best in the U.S. as well,” he said. “We look forward to representing the U.S. in June at the World Coffee Championships in Ireland.”

Goldsworthy will go on to compete for the World Barista in Dublin, Ireland, in June. Until then, he’ll most likely spend several days a week locked up in the lab, practicing his brew and rehearsing

After he had won, Goldsworthy said, “there was a lot of excitement, and then there was, ‘Oh … I have a lot of work to do.’”

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