To anybody that may be reading this, my name is Phillip Prass. As of today, May 9 of 2010, I am 20 years old and working at a Boston Stoker's coffee shop in Dayton. I came across Barista Exchange due to a work bulletin and registered almost immediately.

I've recently come to find a niche in the coffee industry, one where I hope to open a shop of my own.Hopefully this occurs down the west coast, but who knows.

I suppose the point of this blog is to introduce…