For those of you who missed out on the fantastic Nordic Barista Cup in Compenhagen this year, you can see all the lectures here. The name of the event is a bit misleading. Although there is a team barista competition between the 5 nordic countries, most people attend for the many  informative lectures and the social […]

We are featured in an article about Oslo, written by Oliver Strand in this month’s Bon Appétit.

We had a great anniversary last Saturday. Despite the shifting weather, we had over 350 customers visiting all donating a lot of money for our project at Finca Tamana in Colombia. We managed to get NOK 30.000,- in one day and all of this money will go to Elias at Finca Tamana in order to

It has been a while since I visited Kapsokisio in Mt. Elgon in West-Kenya in January. I fell in love with this coffee immediately while cupping it in Kenya and I am super happy to finally be able to sell it in our store. Kapsokisio will have it’s debut during our 5 year anniversary this

Our 5 Year anniversary is coming up. We will be celebrating on Saturday the 23rd of June. The bar will be full of staff serving some of our classic drinks as well as some new iced coffees from 11am to 5pm. The minimum price for a drink will be 1,- kr but you can pay

The only reason we have not bought any Colombian coffee for the past 2 years is that the coffee tends to fade very fast. We bought some bags 2-3 years ago that faded and tasted woody after only a month in storage in Oslo. We had to sell the coffee for under cost price to

After 4 days at Finca Tamana, I had to leave early morning on Friday to catch a plane from Neiva to Bogota. It turned out Avianca had cancelled my ticket, since I did not use my ticket from Bogota to Neiva. I got a bit upset to say the least and threw a bunch of

Yesterday we had a meeting with the pickers at Finca Tamana to listen to their experience so far  after 3 days of using the new picking techniques. Although they had gotten a lot better and the cherry selection was great, there was still some pickers who were not careful with separating the over mature cherries.

I spent the whole Monday and Tuesday morning at Finca Tamana this week. The goal was to train the pickers to do a better job as well as documenting the extra spending and to see if the pickers actually made more money by doing a better job, otherwise I think I would get in trouble

I am writing from my hotel room in Garzon after a long day at Finca Tamana in Pital, Huila, Colombia. I am going to spend a week here to work at the farm. Finca Tamana is a 60 Hectar farm, that my friend Elias Roa retrieved 2 years ago almost by coincidence. It is situated