It’s arrived. The English version of ‘Coffee with Tim Wendelboe’ has finally been printed and is ready for your eyes.

‘Coffee with Tim Wendelboe’ gives you advice in selecting the right brewing equipment, recipes on different brewing methods and tips on how to buy the best coffee.  Tim writes about how coffee is grown, produced, imported and roasted and gives you many reasons why some coffees taste better than others. There are also some pastry recipes by one of norways best pastry chefs, Sverre Sætre in adittion to a couple of tasty and simple coffee drink recipes from Tim Wendelboe’s espresso bar.

The book is available for purchase from the Webshop for retail price. We will also be shipping the book worldwide. If you would like to sell the book in your own store, please contact Tim directly via email for wholesale enquires.

Extreberto from Cielito Lindo at the Cup of Excellence 2010

We are very pleased and proud to announce the purchase of Cielito Lindo CoE #18 in the Honduras Cup of Excellence for the 3rd year running. The purchase price was $8.10 per pound.

Tim was part of the international jury this year, so had a very close relationship with the top coffees – and especially with the wonderful Cielito Lindo which has become a favourite at Tim Wendelboe between both staff and our customers. It is very exciting to know we will be offering this coffee again soon!

More information on the Cup of Excellence and what it means to us and the farmers can be found here.

More info on Cielito Lindo can be found here.

We will start roasting and selling our new crop Tekangu from Kenya on Tuesday the 6th of July.
More info on the coffee here.

Tim and I will be going to London this afternoon to watch the 2010 World Barista Championship and the SCAE exhibition.

I will be holding a roasting seminar on thursday morning, while Tim V will be organizing the 2010 World Aeropress Championship.

We are also sponsoring the WBC brew bar with coffee as well as the La Marzocco stand with some Cielito Lindo Espresso.

If you are not able to attend and cheer for our 2010 Norwegian Barista Champion, Oda Misje Haug, make sure you watch it live on the WBC site on thursday at around 2pm.

We just bought the 30th place winning coffee at the 2010 El Salvador Cup of Excellence auction.

You might wonder why we didn’t bid on the delicious 1st place winner or the lovely no. 3. Well, we are looking for a slightly different profile from El Salvador. Although I love the Pacamara they produce, I feel that we are able to source similar styled coffes from Honduras, only with more intensity. However,  I love the super sweet and dense Bourbon coffees from El Salvador.

The lot we bought is just the style we are looking for. The coffee is super sweet, juicy and has a lovely marzipan aroma with berries and plum in the background.
We bought this lot for USD 5.31 per lb (453 grams.) That is more than USD 4,- above fair trade price.
We are planning on using it for espresso as we think this style of coffee will be super sweet pouring from our FB80.

Hopefully it will arrive in about 6-8 weeks.

2010 DAC Champion Marie Hagemeister

A huge congratulations to Marie Hagemeister of Europa in Copenhagen for winning the Danish Aeropress Championships over the weekend. She fought off eight other competitors through three rounds to quite convincingly take 1st place. Her brew was consistently the sweetest and cleanest cup during the competition. Taking second place was Jeppe Hasager from Behag Din Smag. Both Marie and Jeppe have automatic entrance into the WACs in London.

A big thank you to all the sponsors of the event, which included Kontra Coffee, Behag Din Smag, Sigfreds, SCAE Denmark, Marista and most especially Jens and Björg and all the sexy staff of Europa 1989.

Here is a little road movie that sums up my recent Honduras trip.

Hope you like it.

2010 Honduras COE and visit to Cielito, Santa Barbara from Tim Wendelboe on Vimeo.

If you think there is a little too much driving in this video, think about how I felt after sitting in a car for 4-6 hours every day for 7 days.

On todays Best of Panama Auction there was yet another price record for the 1st place winning lot from Hacienda la Esmeralda at USD 170,20 per lb. of coffee (453 grams). This is the price of green coffee before it is packed and shipped to Norway.

I am glad we got our hands on some coffee from the same farm on their last weeks auction for “only” USD 26.50.

The normal market price for specialty coffee today is between USD 1,50 to 2,50 per lb.

Congratulations to the Petersons at Hacienda La Esmeralda once again for setting the record. They also had the previous record at a ground breaking USD 130 pr. lb.

I am delighted, and equally exhausted after 8 hours of bidding, to report that we won a lot of the Mario San José from Hacienda La Esmeralda from Panama. The Mario San José is of the Geisha varietal and was harvested in March 2010.

It has floral notes, it is elegant, crisp, fresh, sweet, has stone fruit, is balanced, great dried fruit attributes, nice body, juicy, balanced and energetic.

More info on the auction can be found here. More information on Hacienda La Esmeralda can be found here. And more information on Mario San José can be found here.

The World Aeropress Championships will be held in conjunction with the WBC this year in London. Follow the WAC blog for updates, details and how to enter!

http://worldaeropresschampionship.wordpress.com/