First Roast on our Probat L12

Finally the great day arrived where we could roast our first batch on our new Probat L12!
- What a great feeling:-)

The beans where from Finca Vista Hermosa and even though we need some 'getting to know each other time' with the new machine the roast turned out quite ok, but a bit too slow to really get the flavour out that we want to present of this coffee. Today we will do some more experimenting with the L12 to work our way closer to understanding this particular machine (I have to admit that I am pretty excited to get on with it).

Beside me getting to understand the L12 better, the new Roaster needs to be roasted through some batches before we will present the coffee from it. Nevertheless I am sure we soon will have very nice results from the L12 and I will be looking very much forward to getting response to the flavours we can bring out with this new roaster.

If you would like to see more pictures from the roast check out our flickr account.

I'm off to the roastery!

Peter

Nordic Barista Cup

Today I'm off to Gothenburg, Sweden, for the annual Nordic Barista Cup. For those who don't know, it's a team competition between the Nordic countries. This year each team has 3 baristas, one sommelier and a coach.

I've had the pleasure of attending all NBCs so far. However, this year I'm not on the team. In stead I'll be having the pleasure of judging the teams. Each country (Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark) send one judge, who will be responsible for certain areas of judging.

The theme this year is The Future Coffee Shop. I'm really looking forward to hear what visions the baristas might have, and of course to see all the great coffee people who attend this event.

Announcing Our New Website!

The Coffee Collective is proud to reveal our brand new website: www.coffeecollective.dk

Here you can learn more about our coffee roastery and consultancy business, who we are, our Direct Trade model and what we offer for cafés and coffee shops

The site will also provide detailed information about the farms that supply us and hopefully give you an appetite for trying out new coffee experiences.

You can, however, also just enjoy our collective's pictures.



On The Coffee Collective Blog you can still keep updated about what we are up to. Think of it as our 'news section'. Here we will also post about upcoming events as well as ongoing cupping notes.

We hope you enjoy the website and our collective world of coffee. Please feel free to spread the word.

Sincerely,
Peter, Linus, Casper and Klaus
The Coffee Collective

Surprise visit

The other day we got a surprise visit from Isabela Pascoal from Daterra. She was in Europe with her husband and decided to take time out to go to Denmark for a day.

Peter and I first met Isabela back in January 2006 when we visited the Daterra farm. She is the daughter of Lois Pascoal, who owns Daterra, and an incredible nice person.
In August last year Isabela arranged for an espresso presentation with me in Sao Paolo and since then we've met both at the SCAA show in Long Beach, in Tokyo at the WBC and when I did workshops for UCC in Kobe, Japan.

It's always great to get visits from the people who supply us with coffee, and of course we were proud to show her our new location. Here's a picture of Peter and Isabela next to our Daterra Tower of Power ;-)