The third annual Helsinki Coffee Festival will be held from April 21 to 23 at Kaapelitehdas. It’s a three day event bursting with coffee lovers and everything around coffee. If you work with coffee or are even slightly interested in it, Helsinki Coffee Festival is for you. These big events can sometimes feel somewhat frightening to beginners in the coffee world, so here are 5 tips of what to do and expect when you enter the festival.
An energy boost also known as fatty coffee!
(incl. coconut oil and butter)
Have you ever heard about glitter coffee? Well, I'm sure you know that sometimes it’s fun to act like a kid and play with your food or drinks, even though your parents probably told you not to. Edible glitter and food colors are a great and easy way of doing that with coffee. The only thing you need is your imagination and perhaps good music on the background.
Coffee and drinks have more in common than we think. Get inspired and next time mix your coffee with something else than milk, sugar or water.
Tallinn Coffee Festival was a cool get-together for coffee nerds and geeks. At the festival there was plenty of stands with coffee drinks, snacks and displays of teas - and bags and bags and bags of coffee.
Coffee books are important source of knowledge and inspiration for baristas. Here is the list of my favorite coffee books and publications that I especially recommend for baristas that are looking for basic knowledge level. These coffee books are the ones that one should start exploring the world of coffee.
Have you ever thought how to make a perfect cup of coffee over fire outdoors. We gave outdoors coffee brewing a go and really loved the flavor of open fire coffee. Here are the best tips how to make coffee outdoors over fire.
Smoothie and a cup of joe in the same cup!
Super way to start your morning
Lots of ice cream mixed with cold brew coffee, what could be better?
Have you ever wondered how does a coffee cherry tastes like? Is the coffee cherry similar to roasted coffee at all? Wonder no more! I will tell you all about the flavor of coffee cherry and how it should be eaten.
It comes as a surprise for many that Finnish people consume the most coffee in the world per capita with our 10 kg consumption per person yearly. Though, Finland isn’t known for its coffee culture even though it is deeply rooted into our culture. Let’s see what Finnish coffee culture is like.
Back to basics
60 g coffee – 1000 g fresh water – 3-6 min brew time
= 910 ml/871 g brewed coffee
You might have heard a barista saying “this coffee is over-extracted”. Term over-extracted is just an easy way to say that it has too much bitter notes and the brewing went wrong some way. Let’s dig deeper into the world of extraction!
Coffee quotes are fun way to express passion towards coffee because sometimes it is difficult to explain why coffee is so important for one another. I collected some of my favorite coffee quotes in this post. Please share yours in the comments!
Yearning for a good cup of coffee but struggling with all the different checklists and instructions across internet? Some basic things can lead to either a misery or a pleasure in the cup. Here are TOP 5 tips for good coffee!
Coffee drink names can be tricky and that's why we decided to collect you a alphabetical list of the coffee drinks you might bump into. So here you go: the list of most common coffee drinks!
Some time ago, Nanopresso arrived at my desk from my colleague Ella. Nanopresso is a coffee machine that should be able to make espresso without electricity. In this blog you can read about how Nanopresso works, how brew with it and what is my opinion about it.
Coffee has dozens of flavors and in order to pull out those flavors correctly one need not only sense of taste but also sense of smell. Without sense of smell it's almost impossible to taste anything from coffee. Once in a while our senses might be a bit out of order so in this blog I want to share tips how to improve your sense of smell.
So, what do we know about French press? It comes from France, it‘s famous all around the globe, one can make "cafe au lait" with it or use it for milk frothing, it‘s brewed at minutes notice, serves several people and gets you caffeinated so easily. Oh and French press is fuss-free to clean, yet nobody likes to clean still. Bingo. But is there more life to the famous French press than the above mentioned facts? Rest assured that YES, big YES. After reading this post, you‘ll be so knowledgeable about the French press that nobody can shake your grip of it.
