Archive for maaliskuu, 2010

Demand for better

Have you ever ordered an espresso in café and got a cappuccino cup full of brownish liquid that tasted watery, burnt, bitter ( I could write here pretty much every negative adjective I can think of)…? Yep, me too. That’s an americano but sometimes you get espresso that looks like this. My new life began [...]

Forthcoming posts

Becuase of having my matriculation examination in history this Friday I haven’t really had time to write any longer posts, though I do have a few ideas. I’ve got a list of possible posts in my Moleskine notebook so that when I get an idea I won’t forget it. We’ve been noticing with Niki that [...]

Cup Tasting -competition

I participated this year’s Cup Tasting in Gastro 2010 and came third, having 5 out of 8 cups right! I’m really satisfied with the result. Benjamin from Kaffa had 8/8 cups right and won the competition, congratulations! Ivan Ore from Cafetoria came second. Ivan also had 5/8 right but he was slightly faster than I, [...]

Coffee, coffee & coffee in Stockholm.

There’s nothing this critic wouldn’t notice. A few weeks ago we went to a typical day-in-Stockholm –cruise with our fellow students. However, I and Niki decided to focus in coffee rather than just partying. We had planned our route through Stockholm and we even managed to visit nearly all the cafés we had planned to [...]

Coffee from London, finally!

 I haven’t been writing here very much lately because I’m setting up a new blog that’ll be more professional (like I would be pro blogger…), more user-friendly and the most important thing – better-looking. I hope we manage to get it up next week. All the previous posts will be moved there. I’ll let you [...]