Tomorrow we open. We're very excited. It's been a loooong week and some late nights, but on wednesday we got the Food & Health Certification and that meant we were good to go.
The La Marzocco is up and running. The Compak and Mahlkönig grinders are spinning. Two Bestmax filters are supplying clean water. The ice machine, dish washer, refrigerator, lamps, packaging machine, compressor, register are all plugged in and working.
But most importantly; The roaster is roasting!
We did our first 9 batches this afternoon and everything is A-OKAY.
So on this special day, who other than Tim Wendelboe (WBC and World Cup Tasting cahmpion, now also a roastery and coffee shop owner in Oslo) and Morten Wennersgaard, roast master at Solberg & Hansen dropped by for a visit. It was great to see them both again. We feel a special connection with Tim, as his business is very much like ours and we seem to share a lot of similar ideas and approaches to specialty coffee. Solberg & Hansen has also served as a role model in our careers so far, with some of Mortens collegueas (Tone, Willy and Andreas especially) playing a crucial role in where we are today.
It was fun to hang out with them, talk coffee and serve them loads of coffee. We hope to visit both of them soon in Oslo.
At the time of posting this there's 9 hours and 10 minutes till we open the doors. I hope we'll be able to sleep tonight. We're closing at 1800 hours after which freelance barista Mikkel Otto will do a rehearsal of his presentation for the Danish Barista Championship. All are welcome to watch this. See you (or at least some of you) there!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Jægersborggade
Monday, February 11, 2008
Grand Opening of Roastery & Coffee Shop
Friday February 15th at 7:30 we open the doors to our new location:
Jægersborggade 10
2200 Copenhagen N
The past week and a half we've been busy setting everything up and getting the place ready. There's still a lot of work before Friday, but it's starting to look like we imagined. The Probat has already moved in and looks beautiful.
We would like you all to meet Jørgen:
Without him we wouldn't have been able to construct the whole bar as we imagined, not to mention being able to open on time. He's put in a lot of his free time to help us make a really neat bar. Thank you Jørgen!
We look forward to finally being able to invite everybody in to taste coffee, learn more about brewing, see how we roast and chat about all things coffee related.
There's a few pictures up on our Flickr from the progress.
See you there!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Another article: Barista Magazine
The first of these articles are printed in the new February/March edition of Barista Magazine which gracefully features the wonderful M'lissa Muckerman on the cover.
Barista Magazine is available through subscription worldwide. We can highly recommend subscribing as there are numerous well-written, informative articles about all things coffee- and barista related. If you're curious to take a closer look, you can also read the entire magazine online. For our article Notes From The Collective go to page 68.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Article in gourmet magazine Mad & Venner
The February issue of Mad & Venner - one of the most read Danish food magazines - contains a 5 page article about us.
We first got into contact with journalist Marie Holm last year through Farmers Market. Originally she was just going to mention us briefly, but when she heard more about our concept and Direct Trade model she approached us for a full article. So a couple of months ago we met with her and photographer Tomas Elfsberg to get interviewed and have our pictures taken. It was great fun for us and we think the article has really captured what we're all about.
Unfortunately for our international readers it's in Danish, but you might still enjoy the pictures.
