New York Coffee Photo Essay with Kalle Freese
A while back right before the ’13 World Barista Championship, Finland’s national champion, Kalle Freese, visited New York. Naturally, we had to do a coffee crawl to see what the city has to offer. We couldn’t do everything in the short time available, but fresh from Scandinavia, the photos below document the adventure that was...
Blossa Glögg – 2011 Coffee Flavor Review
One thing I picked up and really enjoyed in Sweden was the winter-time tradition of drinking Glögg, a mulled wine spiced with cloves, cinnamon, and other good things. There are many varieties, made with either red or white wine, sometimes flavored with other things like vanilla, or pumped up with the addition of cognac or...
Photography: Other than coffee in Malmö, Sweden
October saw Malmö getting quite a few visits from coffee industry folks from as far off as Japan. These days it seems like the world is a really small place when you can bump into people at multiple points on the globe by chance. File that under #firstworldnovelties. But if you didn’t have the pleasure...
Photography: Cafe Scenes from Malmö, Sweden
It’s been about a year since I moved here, and Malmö is growing on me. It’s a beautiful city when the weather becomes bearable and it’s just big enough to offer some of the dynamism, diversity, & opportunity that a real city should have, but small enough to feel relaxed and peaceful in the quiet...
A trip to Paris, introducing Cafe Lomi & Frog Fights
The French have, some would say deservedly, a terrible reputation in the specialty coffee community. I tried to find a few good cafes to review while I was in Paris over the holidays, a little ray of hope for the French coffee scene, but unfortunately most of the time they were closed due to special...
Vintage Danish Coffee Grinder
I walked into an antique shop next to my apartment here in Malmö and was surprised to see this giant vintage coffee grinder, apparently made in Denmark sometime in the 1920s and used at this location for almost as long. The woman who’d been working there for something like 20 years only spoke Swedish, so...
Korean Cafe Photos
Had a really bad experience at this cafe, definitely wouldn’t recommend it. But their interior is insane, check it out.
Coffee at Work & Home
This is part of the coffee setup I keep at work. I like the pour-over filter, it’s fun for people to watch, easier to clean than a French press, and less awkward than straining over an Aeropress imagining what might happen if your mug decided to shatter underneath you. I can’t really recommend the Kalita...
CBTL in Korean
Around Insadong and Gyeongbokgung there is a law mandating that signage must use the Korean language. Here’s what “The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf” looks like spelled out phonetically in Korean.
