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

  We have goten our hands on 4,5 bags of coffee from the award winning farm in Panama,  Hacienda Esmeralda. The coffee was bought on the 2013 Esmeralda Special Internet Auction earlier this year and we made sure to ship it as fast as possible to Norway in order to preserve it’s freshness. The coffee

We had a great time celebrating on Saturday. The shop was full of enthusiastic guests who contributed a lot to our drying table project at Kapsokisio. We managed to collect USD 3300,- but we are also chipping in some extra $ from TW so the total amount of money we will be spending on new

We will be celebrating our 6 year anniversary on Saturday the 20th of July. Like previous years we will be making our coffee ice cream as well as serving our normal summer drinks.     All coffee drinks will have a minimum price of Kr. 5,- but there is no limit to what you can

Here is a video of the first Creative Mornings held in Oslo. I was honoured to be asked to do the very first Oslo lecture which had the subject “Food” (I know coffee is a drink, but the definition of Food can be so many.) Hope you like the lecture:   CreativeMornings Oslo – Food