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Giving Tumblr a go 19 Aug 2010 | 05:45 am
After having felt the need to be able to post shorter and less ambitious posts, I’ve decided to open a Tumblr account. There I’ll be posting short thoughts and ideas about coffee as well as pictures a...
Treating the symptoms not the disease 25 Sep 2009 | 07:06 am
Lately there have been an increasing focus on how the coffee is packed at origin and at the roastery. Numerous blogposts and comments on forums have glorified the advantages of new methods of packing ...
Cupping on the iPhone 4 Apr 2009 | 07:16 am
Ok. I admit it: I’m a gadget freak. But what would life be without these all to often oh so useless, pricey machines that sparkle like jewels and make cool sounds? Please don’t answer that question. I...
Cupping resource Part 1 24 Mar 2009 | 08:55 am
Ok. Finally I’ve managed to make a new version of the cupping form I had made after looking through all the cupping forms I could get my hands on. I was going to post it long ago, but the harddrive of...
Small and big changes 20 Feb 2009 | 09:54 am
Small changes: I decided it was time for a brush-up on the look of my blog. I feel the new theme is more tidy and neat and has the features you’ll look for at a glance. Big changes: I’ve been offered ...
What makes it taste so good? 7 Sep 2008 | 08:42 am
In earlier posts I have written about how important it is to taste your own coffee and to check your routines. All to often however I have found how hard it is to objectively review how good (or bad) ...
Shop roasting: Roasting with an audience. 19 Feb 2008 | 09:18 am
Last week our roaster malfunctioned (again!), and I had to go out of the shop to roast. Solberg & Hansen were nice enough to let us use their UG22 Probat roaster. Thank you S&H! They are a medium s...
Are you making coffe on autopilot? 14 Oct 2007 | 07:13 am
Let’s face it. There is no shortage on opinions on the internet about how to make the best coffee. And quite a few has, in their own mind, come up with the perfect routine. In this post I’m not after ...
Cross contamination! Is your cupping routine up to scratch? 28 Sep 2007 | 09:39 pm
After our previous experiment with unripes we got a comment suggesting that the lack of a clear result might be due to cross contamination of the coffees. Even though we feel we have a good cupping ro...
How many defected beans in a cup before you taste it? 19 Sep 2007 | 05:35 am
At the roastery we have a great dry processed coffee from Santa Alina in Brazil. The only drawback is that it comes with it’s fair share of unripes. So each time we roast this bean we spend some time ...