Inspired by Colin, James and Gwilym (via TIm Styles) who has allready published their scoresheets from their WBC finals I started looking for my old sheets from 2004. I found them in a pile of paper on top of my book shelf, so here they are:

Head Judge: Tone Elin Liavaag
Sensory Judge: Sherri Johns
Sensory Judge: Roberto Pregel
Sensory Judge: Inga Schaeper
Sensory judge: Justin Metcalf
Technical Judge: Paul Bassett
Technical Judge: John Sanders

I haven’t had a look at these scoresheets since 2004, and what comes to mind is how much better the scoresheets are today and how much better the competition is now. Back in 2004 there was a lot of silly stuff we had to go through, like setting up the judges table in the competition time and not in the preparation time. Nevertheless. I did not deliver 100% in the finals and therefore scored lower than in the semi-finals. Fortunately I think all 6 finalists had the same nerves as I did, so we all did our honest mistakes. (Like serving luke warm cappuccinos)

I will try to dig up some video footage of the competition as well. If anyone was there and filmed it, please send me a copy.

Yesterday there was a feature about Nespresso and coffee on the national TV consumer programme FBI.

If you are in Norway you can see the feature here.

The brew guide and some tips about how to brew better coffee can be found here.

I used their coffee calculator and found out that if I use the Aeropress and brew 4 cups of coffee of the Hacienda La Esmeralda every day (our most expensive coffee) it will cost me NOK 12.709 per year (USD 2.045,-). That means about Kr. 34,- per day (USD 5,47). Pretty cheap for the most famous and expensive coffee in the world if you ask me.

For a more normal priced coffee the price would be:  NOK 5.409,- per year.(USD 870,-) or Kr. 14,82 per day (USD 2,39).

I am shocked how cheap it is to drink coffee compared to wine and beer. I just spent Kr. 2000,- on Wine for a dinner the other day.

I am extremely happy to announce that we have won the Nordic Roaster Competition for the 3rd year in a row.

The 2010 competition was supposed to be in 2 parts. One where all 10 competing roasteries roasted the same coffee and the other competition where the roasteries submit their best coffee and decides the brewing parameters on a BUNN filter brewer.
All coffees were to be  cupped blind by the 150 + Nordic Barista Cup attendees and every person gets to vote for their favourite.

Unfortunately the first part of the competition was cancelled due to a very late shipment of the coffee. Therefore we decided to have an unofficial competition among 5 Norwegian roasteries to taste the difference in the same coffee being roasted by different roasters. It was a very interesting cupping and in my opinion and although very different, I really liked 3 of the roasts a lot. In the end we were unofficially voted the best, but since this was an unofficial competition the scores did not count in the Nordic Roaster Competition this year.

So, we were pretty much up against everyone in the final filter competition. The competing roasteries were : (in final Ranking order)

1st place: Tim Wendelboe from Norway
2nd place: Da Matteo from Sweden
3rd place: Solberg & Hansen from Norway
4th place: Gourmet Coffee from Estonia
5th place: Has Bean from the UK
6th place: Viva Cafe from Colombia
7th place: Copa Con oro from Norway
7th place: Löfbergs Lila from Sweden
9th place: Copenhagen Coffee Roaster from Denmark

Unfortunately, Kaffebrenneriet from Norway did not compete due to not having submitted the coffee on time.

The coffee we competed with was our coffee from Mugaga in Kenya. In our opinion our best coffee so far this year.
It was taken from one of our production roasts that Chris Fok did without knowing it was for the Nordic Roaster Competition.
The roast profile was developed by Tim Varney and me for a period of time as we normally do with all our coffees.

To learn more about how we work, please see my presentation on Roasting at this years Nordic Barista Cup that will be available soon at the Nordic Barista Cup Web site.

Thanks to all who voted for our coffee. It was fantastic to recieve the award in front of you all:

Here is a video that was made for tho Nordic Barista Cup that just went on in Oslo this weekend.

I think the video speaks for itself.

The craft from Brendan Inkognito on Vimeo.

Here is a slideshow from my recent trip to Brazil.

I will try to write something as soon as the Nordic BArista cup is over next week.