We are proud to announce that we just bought the 2009 Costa Rica Cup of Excellence lot #8 for USD 7.10 per pound (453g) of green unpacked and unshipped coffee. (Marketprice is about USD 1.30 per pound.) The Coffee from the farm San Pedro was one of our favourites among this years auction lots from […]

Here are the finalists’ Aeropress methods, all very different and all producing unique styles of brew. Generally, Alex’s brews had an intense fruit character with a heavy winey body. Ben’s however, showed transparency with crisp; citric acidity and floral notes. Lukasz delivered an extremely rounded and balanced cup. All 3 methods are taken word for

The second annual World Aeropress Championships have been a fantastic success. On Tuesday TW’s hosted the event to a excited and somewhat intrigued crowd of around 50 spectators. They were there to be inspired and to hopefully walk away with a winning approach to brewing on the Aeropress – the brainchild of Mr Alan Alder

Although the coffees became expensive, we managed to buy 2 delicious small lots of coffee at the Best of Panama auction today. We are not only proud of getting our hands on such lovely coffee, we are also proud to say that we payed the 3rd and 4th highest prices on the auction. Only beaten

The 2009 Esmeralda Auction yesterday was pretty amazing. Once again this farm has broken records in terms of average price per pound. (The highest price so far on auction was in 2007 Best of Panama, where Esmeralda got 130 USD per lb.) Although I am not astonished anymore by the highest price at USD 117.50

There is little doubt that traveling to origin is exhausting. With work piling up at home while we were away there has been little time to blog about the last days of our Colombia trip. I promised you more, so here goes. Day 3: Early in the morning on our 3rd day in Garzon, we

Updated rules, etc Wednesday 6th May Our love for the Aeropress continues here at TW’s. We have decided to execute a 2nd WAC… World Aeropress Championship here in Oslo, to be held on Tuesday 2nd June @ 6pm. The first time around was very unofficial, this time we’ve managed to get the folks at Aerobie

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From the Monday 4th May, we will extend our opening hours to 6pm. You’ll also have somewhere to soak up the last of the afternoon sunshine enjoying your Mountain Top Estate Cappuccino al Freddo… we’ve got seating outside again!

Oslo TV came to learn how to make coffee in 15 minutes the other day. See the whole TV feature here: [qt:http://timwendelboe.no/uploads/oslo-tv-april-29th.mov 320 240]