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.
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.
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.
Well I think we all know that our perception of flavour and taste are different form each other: what is sour for one not necessarily will be sour for other. And also that tasting actually is a really unique combination of all our senses - smell, hearing, sight, and of course the taste. In this blog I give examples how different senses actually effect the way we taste.
Coffee and chocolate are often compared thanks to the overlap between their growing regions and the similarities in flavor notes. Both coffee and cacao share a huge flavor profile; over 600 aromatic compounds in cacao and more than 1000 in coffee! Let’s dig into more similarities and differences between the two gorgeous plants!
One of the biggest and coolest coffee events in Lithuania is Vilnius Coffee Festival. What can you expect from this year's event? Make sure not to miss these!
Are you visiting Vilnius and want to find the best specialty coffee cafés in town? Then make sure not to miss this blog where I introduce the best cafés in Vilnius! Vilnius has been booming in recent years in specialty coffee cafés and new ones are popping up all the time in various locations. Let's see what are the best specialty coffee cafés in Vilnius!
Lithuanian coffee culture is a one of a kind. Coffee came to Lithuania 300 years ago via Turkey and it was available only to the privileged class. Nowadays in Lithuania, it is common to drink espresso based coffees but it's becoming more common to try out different coffee types. Also specialty coffee cafés are really booming in Lithuania. Let's dig deeper into the Lithuanian coffee culture!
