October 19, 2011
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In a year or ten?
I am dreaming of my own coffee establishment every day. There’s just one thing puzzling me - when is the right time?
The more I work at cafes and coffee bars the more I learn about coffee, running and designing a shop and how to make a decent living. What I fear is that at some point I start to lose my original ideas, visions and details I’ve had in mind.
Is it really better to learn and make mistakes somewhere else before setting up a shop of your own? Wouldn’t it be better way to learn if I could focus my attention exactly where I want, not where my boss wants?
I have decided that the time is when I know what and where I want to do and what I don’t plan having. Yet the question is: will that happen one day? Do I really feel that much more ready in ten years than in one?
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August 23, 2011
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Coffee at Home
Simple and visually beautiful, I quite like this Stockholm-nese collective blog. It inspires me to brew more coffee at home, something I do very little at the moment.
Coffee at Home (photo snatched from the blog, taken by Simon Westerlund. He is the one behind the project. Great guy, great barista)
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August 15, 2011
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Luxury - not by you.
I really enjoy drinking coffee made by somebody else. It is kind of a luxury being served a delicious cup of coffee by someone who really has taken care brewing it. I should go out drinking coffee more than I do now.
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August 10, 2011
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Coffeevolution
Helsinki is been very un-Helsinkian lately. There’s lots going on. Old port areas are being demolished and inhabitants of this normally quite unimaginative city are taking over the abandoned areas. Cafe facilitated in two containers, pop-up’s popping up and so on.
New coffee spots seem to mushroom always in autumns. So will they once again. Or not again but start up anyway. Coming-of-age baristas starting their first own ventures, a new roaster setting up and well-established businesses are expanding. This is good news. Very good indeed.
Lauri, the Finnish champ, has some exciting plans. All crusaders stay tuned, there might be some V60’s poured before Christmas!
Mr. Andberg aka the Mystery Man. He was co-owner of Kaffa (where I work) and quit. He was left with a roaster. Nobody knows what’s happened since. The rumour has it that something’s happening now but nobody knows for sure.
Coffee Crusade hopes to raid these new players soon, looting some hopefully good coffee. Exciting.
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July 13, 2011
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Coffee Common x TED Global2011
Two weeks ago I was asked to come to one of the coolest and most interesting events in the world, TED Global, to brew coffee with some of the coolest and best baristas in the world. If I wanted to come? I had been dreaming of that since the first event in Long Beach earlier this year.
Coffee people within the industry are very good at communicating, tweeting and having beers with each other’s but somewhere on the way we forgot about the customers. Coffee Common is collaboration between amazing roasters around the world to together make people understand why good coffee just is better than bad coffee. TED is the perfect places for such since the attendees come there to get inspired, absorbing new ideas. That mind-setting far from the regular customer’s approach to coffee.
Already during the first conference day there has been very interesting talks between baristas and TEDsters. Many had the best cup of coffee they have tasted. I ruined one gentleman’s life - he said there’s no way he can drink coffee from his regular coffee shop anymore. He was converted. Coffee Crusade - Starbucks 5-0.
Please do check out the Coffee Common website. There is people tweeting and taking photos all the time. Do check those too. I’ll try to post short updates of what’s happening every day.
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May 17, 2011
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May 3, 2011
April 28, 2011
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Great cupping at Kaffe & Co in Århus, Denmark with Mikkel, Morten and the one and only Kulbay the Forest Roaster from Stockholm (or from the outskirts, actully).
