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

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

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.

I know I have been writing about the La Marzocco Strada before, but back then I did not have a lot of experience using the machine. Not that I have a lot of experience now either, after only playing and working with it for some weeks. To be honest, I haven’t had the time to

The total amount of money we managed to raise for the Tekangu drying table project is USD 4600,- Hopefully this will be enough to build 5 tables. Tim Varney and I will be going to Kenya in November to oversee the harvest and also to document the benefits of using these new drying tables. A