There’s something very characteristic with Antipodeans (New Zealanders and Australians) and their cafés – you can’t find such a combination of relaxed hospitality and great coffee anywhere else. They have their own, relaxed way of doing things. It is difficult to describe the feeling and atmosphere of such a café but you can certainly feel it the [...]

One of the things why I love being a semi-coffee professional is the possibility to taste such different and interesting coffees. Lately I’ve been drinking coffees from Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Melbourne and Berlin. A few really interesting and delicious ones, some not so. Here’s a few nice ones: La Hacienda Esmeralda 2010 Tim Wendelboe‘s Esmeralda [...]

Now that I’m working with coffee 9-to-5 for the first time1 I’m getting new ideas for my blog every day. More than I have time to write, actually. Here are a few posts I’m working with at the moment: A year at Kaffa What did learn while working in my first real coffee job. Stockholm [...]

You’ve just had your 11 course surprise menu with paired wines in that hypothetical restaurant awarded with three Michelin stars. It’s located hundreds of kilometres from the (hypothetical) nearest city but it’s still full booked for every single service. The food was great if not amazing, wines were well-paired and the company was even better. [...]

You make coffee the weekdays and you drink coffee the weekends (sometimes also beer). That’s pretty much my life in Stockholm. After brewing same few coffees for customers for five days it’s good to be able to go and have a cup of coffee yourself, too (and something different this time!). There are a few [...]

(for photos, check the previous post) I didn’t really know what to expect from my first WBC. The main reason for my reasonably inconvinient trip to London with Ryanair wasn’t the WBC competition itself but all the coffee people who would gather there. Although you can learn a lot by just watching world’s top baristas [...]