The first day in Kenya I spent in Nairobi at Dorman’s head offices tasting about 400 cups of coffee (Or more. I lost count) I was hoping to find some gems on the table, but unfortunately Kenya has had severe problems with drought that has affected the production both in quantity and quality. Therefore, I […]

We are glad to announce that we now have 2 Best of Panama lots and a Christmas espressoblend for sale: The Christmas espresso blend consists of: 50% Badnekhan Estate, washed coffee from India 50% Suaza, washed coffee from Huila Colombia Flavour profile: Rich, nutty, chocolaty, dried fruit, oak and spice. The Panamacoffees are: Lot no.

Today I was interviewed on the NRK P1 Østlandssendingen for 30 minutes in their Late lunch programme. The interview was about my newly published book and coffee, etc. You can download the interview as a podcast here.

After 11 days in Brazil I have had a total of 7 hours of rest (not counting sleeping at night), taken 7 airplanes, spent at least 30 hours in a car, cupped at least 150 different coffees and visited around 20 farms all across Brazil. I have also done 3 intensive days of coffee seminars,

After spending a long day in Piata, Bahia, I am too exhausted to write a long report about it. I have visited several farms today and had a great dinner yesterday with over 40 farmers from around Piata. Tomorrow I will be tasting samples of a lot of their coffees and I am really looking

We are proud to announce that we won the 2009 Nordic Roaster Competition. For those of you not familiar with the competition, it is a competition for roasteries that normally takes place during the Nordic Barista Cup. This years competition was held in Iceland and there were 10 different roasteries entering from countries such as

Yesterday, during the Nordic Barista Cup in Iceland, the 5 Nordic teams were asked to make as many Aeropressed coffees as possible in 5 minutes. All teams used the same coffee but they could decide upon the grind setting, water to coffee ratio temperature and steep times. They were judged on the cup quality and

After the recent Nordic Barista Cup, we were lucky to be given the Bunn Trifecta to play with for 2 weeks. I had previously only seen it at the SCAA show in April and had some good tasting brews on it but I really did not have the chance to play with it myself. Also,

Here is a little feature about my book “Coffee with Tim Wendelboe”  and a short interview in the New York Times. For those of you who want to purchase the book and you are living in the USA, please go here to buy a copy. We also sell the book in English or Norwegian in

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