This is a translated version of the original article posted on Black Water Issue.

Tim will be visiting China for the first time next week, along with our partners at Nordic Approach. They will be hosting cupping and info sessions in Shanghai and Guangzhou from 9th-11th August. If you would like to join, please get in touch with the relevant venues below: Little Bean, Shanghai – 9th Aughttp://www.littlebeanroasters.com/ MQ

A late thank you to everyone who came and celebrated our 10 year anniversary with us. A huge thank you for all the donations made for our new project “Trees for Quality” We managed to collect NOK 51.610,- (USD 6.861,-) that we will use to help farmers plant shade trees on their farms. As always

I am thrilled and honored to report that I will be doing the coffee program at the MAD Symposium alongside some of our favorite roasters from August 26-27th. MAD was founded by noma’s founder/chef Rene Redzepi as a non-profit to investigate the future of food through events and collaboration with the most influential figures from the cooking world and

We were excited to welcome our friend Dorothée Brand from Seattle by way of Berlin by way of Frankfurt of the New York and Seattle-based company Belathée to take a few fresh images of our espressobar and roastery this spring. I have the best team and I was happy that she was able to capture

Our July 2018 edition of Coffee Subscription Tasting with Friends has me tasting our Kiawamururu with our friendly videographer, Glenn. This is a superb washed coffee from Nyeri, Kenya.  We have just sent all of our subscribers the November 2017 harvest with flavours of winey, black currants and flowers. The idea behind these coffee tasting

I went live on Facebook on July 5th at 5:00pm (CEST) to try to answer all the questions I could about coffee farming. I have been farming on my own farm, Finca El Suelo, for three years and I have been deeply involved with the producers at origin for the last decade. I love that

I did an ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Facebook Live Friday June 15th, at 4:00pm (CEST). I spoke about coffee roasting. This was our second time going live on Facebook. If you would like to see our previous ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Facebook Live on Coffee Brewing. You can do that with this link. Join us on

In the past few months we have gotten a lot of questions about our coffee subscription. It’s an initiative we are working on expanding and refining this year. From month to month subscribers will receive coffees that I choose exclusively for them. We are starting to recieve small lots of new varieties from some of

I will be at the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee show in Amsterdam this month. This event will be taking place in Amsterdam from June 21-23rd. World of Coffee will feature the World Barista Championship along with the annual exhibition which is still considered the main coffee exhibition in Europe. I will be working