Last night, after some 12 hours at roastery, I went home and hit the sack. Guess what, the only thing I was thinking and dreaming about was coffee. Espresso, beans and especially this time – packages. Maybe I had packed a few too many bag… Should I start to get worried?

I drank today one of the best espressos in my life. Although I’m only 17 (18 in a week) I have drank quite a few espressos. This one was definetely in top 5. As you might have guessed, it was at La Torrefazione. Double ristretto in a espresso demi-tasse made from Kaffa’s espresso 3.1 and [...]

About a year ago we decided with my girlfriend that we’re going to go on a InterRail next summer. I guess nealry everyone is familiar with the InterRail-phenomenon. If not, you better check it out! We started planning our trip in the spring and we ended up taking a completely different route than we had [...]

The cupping today at La Torre was great. The place is just what Helsinki has been waiting for – trendy and stylish but still cosy. Fresh colours, nice seats and the best part, (hopefully) suberb coffee. Today’s special coffee was something rather rare and expensive and very tasty – Hacienda Esmeralda from Panama. That particular [...]

I wonder, how many people have sleeping troubles because of thinking, not drinking, coffee. Actually, when I go to bed all there’s on my mind is coffee. Coffee that, espresso this, roasting, smell of coffee etc. Maybe not the best way to get some sleep, thinking about coffee. Even thinking about coffee works as a [...]

I have kind of a problem. My lovely girfriend doesn’t drink coffee. I mean, nearly not at all. Conflict of interests, eh? Our biggest everyday problem is wheter or not I have time to pop in to my favourite coffee shop for a decent espresso. It doesn’t ease the situation that I don’t really want [...]

(Square Mile’s stall at Whitstreet Market, London. This is from last summer’s Interrail trip, that’s why those clothes…)I was quite lucky the other day. Surfing around the Internet, I checked the Square Mile Roastery‘s website in case something new stuff. Indeed there was. A new, one-off espresso blend called Juice drawed my attention. SQM’s folks [...]

As corny as it might sound, I have a mission. That mission is to improve the quality of coffee that we Finns drink. It is said that we drink the most coffee in the world, some 9-10kgs of coffee per year per inhabitant. That is quite a lot of coffee. Most of that coffee is [...]