diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fba22d4..824858f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,10 +10,8 @@ information, Verspätung computs the delta for each of the consumer groups and
 reports it to statsd.
 
 
-
-
 ### Hacking
 
 * *Running tests:* `./gradlew check`
-* *Running the app locally:* `./gradlew run`
+* *Running the app locally:* `./gradlew run -PzookeeperHosts=localhost:2181`
 * *Building the app for distribution:* `./gradlew shadowJar`
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/Main.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/Main.groovy
index 7e1f003..f225845 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/Main.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/Main.groovy
@@ -10,33 +10,23 @@ import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCacheListener
 class Main {
     static void main(String[] args) {
         println "Running ${args}"
+        // XXX: Early exit until testing
+        return
 
         ExponentialBackoffRetry retry = new ExponentialBackoffRetry(1000, 3)
         CuratorFramework client = CuratorFrameworkFactory.newClient(args[0], retry)
         client.start()
-        TreeCache cache = new TreeCache(client, '/kafka_spout')
+        TreeCache cache = new TreeCache(client, '/consumers')
         println cache
 
-        cache.listenable.addListener([
-            childEvent: { cl, ev ->
-                println "EV: ${ev}"
-            }
-        ] as TreeCacheListener)
-
+        cache.listenable.addListener(new zk.StandardTreeWatcher())
 
         cache.start()
         println 'started..'
 
-        Boolean foundChildren = false
-        Map children = null
+        Thread.sleep(5 * 1000)
 
-        while ((children == null) || children.isEmpty()) {
-            children = cache.getCurrentChildren('/kafka_spout')
-            println "CHILDREN: ${children}"
-
-            Thread.sleep(100)
-        }
-        [1, 2, 3].each { Thread.sleep(300) }
+        println 'exiting..'
         return
 
         client.children.forPath('/consumers').each { path ->
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcher.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcher.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4262d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcher.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung.zk
+
+import groovy.transform.TypeChecked
+import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCacheListener
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCacheEvent
+
+/**
+ * AbstractTreeWatcher defines the contract and base components for the various
+ * Zookeeper tree watchers Verspaetung needs. The responsibility of these
+ * watchers is to process events from the TreeCache and emit processed events
+ * further down the pipeline
+ */
+@TypeChecked
+abstract class AbstractTreeWatcher implements TreeCacheListener {
+
+    /**
+     * Process the ChildData associated with an event
+     */
+    abstract ConsumerOffset processChildData(ChildData data)
+
+    /**
+     * Primary TreeCache event processing callback
+     */
+    void childEvent(CuratorFramework client, TreeCacheEvent event) {
+        /* bail out early if we don't care about the event */
+        if (!isNodeEvent(event)) {
+            return
+        }
+
+        ConsumerOffset offset = processChildData(event?.data)
+
+        if (offset != null) {
+            println offset
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Return true if the TreeCacheEvent received pertains to a node event that
+     * we're interested in
+     */
+    Boolean isNodeEvent(TreeCacheEvent event) {
+        if ((event?.type == TreeCacheEvent.Type.NODE_ADDED) ||
+            (event?.type == TreeCacheEvent.Type.NODE_UPDATED)) {
+            return true
+        }
+        return false
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/ConsumerOffset.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/ConsumerOffset.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8187bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/ConsumerOffset.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung.zk
+
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData
+
+/**
+ * POJO representing data from Zookeeper for a consumer, topic and offset
+ */
+class ConsumerOffset {
+    private String topic
+    private String groupName
+    private Integer offset
+    private Integer partition
+    private ChildData rawData
+
+
+    String toString() {
+        return "ConsumerOffset[${hashCode()}] ${topic}:${partition} ${groupName} is at ${offset}"
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcher.groovy b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcher.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e16613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcher.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung.zk
+
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData
+
+/**
+ * StandardTreeWatcher processes Zookeeper paths for standard high-level Kafka
+ * consumers
+ */
+class StandardTreeWatcher extends AbstractTreeWatcher {
+
+    /**
+     * Extract the necessary information from a standard (i.e. high-level Kafka
+     * consumer) tree of offsets
+     */
+    ConsumerOffset processChildData(ChildData data) {
+        if (data == null) {
+            return null
+        }
+        /*
+ChildData{path='/consumers/offtopic-spock-test/offsets/topic/7', stat=8595174473,8595174478,1416808804928,1416808805262,1,0,0,0,1,0,8595174473, data=[48]}
+        */
+        ConsumerOffset offset = new ConsumerOffset()
+
+        List pathParts = data.path.split(/\//)
+
+        if (pathParts.size != 6) {
+            return null
+        }
+
+        offset.groupName = pathParts[2]
+        offset.topic = pathParts[4]
+        offset.partition = new Integer(pathParts[5])
+        offset.offset = new Integer(new String(data.data))
+
+        return offset
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcherSpec.groovy b/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcherSpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30ec985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/AbstractTreeWatcherSpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung.zk
+
+import spock.lang.*
+
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCacheEvent
+
+class AbstractTreeWatcherSpec extends Specification {
+    private AbstractTreeWatcher watcher
+
+    class MockWatcher extends AbstractTreeWatcher {
+        ConsumerOffset processChildData(ChildData d) { }
+    }
+
+    def setup() {
+        this.watcher = new MockWatcher()
+    }
+
+    def "isNodeEvent() returns false by default"() {
+        expect:
+        watcher.isNodeEvent(null) == false
+    }
+
+    def "isNodeEvent() return true for NODE_ADDED"() {
+        given:
+        def event = new TreeCacheEvent(TreeCacheEvent.Type.NODE_ADDED, null)
+
+        expect:
+        watcher.isNodeEvent(event) == true
+    }
+
+    def "isNodeEvent() return true for NODE_UPDATED"() {
+        given:
+        def event = new TreeCacheEvent(TreeCacheEvent.Type.NODE_UPDATED, null)
+
+        expect:
+        watcher.isNodeEvent(event) == true
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcherSpec.groovy b/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcherSpec.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f27e9e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/zk/StandardTreeWatcherSpec.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung.zk
+
+import spock.lang.*
+
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.ChildData
+
+class StandardTreeWatcherSpec extends Specification {
+    private StandardTreeWatcher watcher
+
+    def setup() {
+        this.watcher = new StandardTreeWatcher()
+    }
+
+    def "processChildData should return null if null is given"() {
+        expect:
+        watcher.processChildData(null) == null
+    }
+
+    def "processChildData should return null if the path is invalid"() {
+        given:
+        ChildData data = new ChildData("/consumers", null, (byte[])[48])
+        ConsumerOffset offset = watcher.processChildData(data)
+
+        expect:
+        offset == null
+    }
+
+    def "processChildData should create a ConsumerOffset properly"() {
+        given:
+        String path = "/consumers/my-consumer-group/offsets/thetopic/3"
+        ChildData data = new ChildData(path, null, (byte[])[48])
+        ConsumerOffset offset = watcher.processChildData(data)
+
+        expect:
+        offset.groupName == 'my-consumer-group'
+        offset.topic == 'thetopic'
+        offset.partition == 3
+        offset.offset == 0
+    }
+}