As head of the educational programme I am proud to announce that the preliminary programme for the 2010 Nordic Barista Cup in Oslo is published. For more info go here.
If you are considering attending I recommend signing up as soon as possible as there is only a limited 150 available tickets.
There are 3 new Barista Course dates -
Please go here to read more about the courses or go to our webshop to sign up. We now offer the Barista Course giftcard on the webshop too.
If you have a gift card for a seminar, please send us an e-mail to sign up for a course.
We would like to congratulate our full time barista Thomas Holme on his victory in the Norwegian Barista Competition, Oslo qualification. Thomas gave us an excellent presentation and served some spectacular cappuccinos and espressos based on a coffee from Badnekhan Estate.
His delicious signature drink consisted of a milk and espresso foam infused with cinnamon and cloves, topped up with a refreshing lavender milk foam.
We would also like to congratulate Jannicke from Mocca and Maria from United Bakeries on their 2nd and 3rd place which gives them a ticket to the semi finals in the 2010 Norwegian barista championships in April. Well done!
More pictures here:
Friday afternoon we had our 3rd tasting of the 6 trial roasts of Fazenda Santa Barbara, a newly arrived coffee from Bahia, Brazil.
We had 2 favourites, the roasts were 1:30 minutes apart in total roast time, so now we need to do some new trial roasts to see which direction to take. We also need to determine the roast level (colour) and then test it on the big roaster before we start selling the coffee.
This is one of the most exciting times of the year, when new crop coffees start coming in. It is great to get to know these coffees through endless tasting of trial roasts. We also base our flavour descriptors on these tastings, so it is not just based upon one tasting.
The Fazenda Santa Barbara will be for sale in about 3-4 weeks. More info will come once we get it from the farmer.
(The coffee was tasting so nice that we drank it all.)
This is the break down of drinks sold in January 2010:
Clover coffees 23,3%
Espresso 21,4%
Caffè Latte 21%
Cappuccino 18,1%
Cortado 12,4%
Piccolino (small cappuccino) 2,3%
Macchiato 1,5%
Americano 0%
I am finally back home again after a fantastic week in Kenya.
It looks like we will be buying a lot from the Karogoto factory which is part of the Tekangu coop and a lot from the Kiamabara factory which is part of the Mugaga coop. More info on these coffees will come when the coffees are ready for sale in our store. First it needs to be processed, sorted, packed and shipped to Norway. It will probably take about 2 months before we have it in house.
I have made a slideshow with some comments for every picture. Watch it in full screen and click “show info” to see the comments.
I Hope you like it:
