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

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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.

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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

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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 ;-)

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FVH in da house

Finca Vista Hermosa - our first Direct Trade coffee - has arrived.

The jute bags are of a very high quality and simply beautiful. You gotta love the FVH logo. Edwin has even printed our name on the bags.

Of course the first thing we did was taking some samples to roast in varying degrees and with different profiles. We cupped them the next day and we were astounded how well this coffee performs from a super-light to a rather dark roast. It's clean cup all the way through, but with a complexity that's rarely found in such a balanced coffee. We have decided on a medium roast, where the chocolate really comes out but without destroying the beautiful acidity.

Vista Hermosa will also be an essential ingredient in our espresso blend, of course in a rather different roast profile. The new blend will be out this week.

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New location!

We're sorry it's been kinda quiet here in the collective's blog for the past week. The good news is that it hasn't been quiet for no reason: We've been busy moving into our new location in Kastrup, Copenhagen!

We got our Probat L12 set up and almost ready, the sample roaster, the La Marzocco, Compak and Mahlkönig grinders, a desk, a big ass stereo and most importantly a lot of green coffee. Happy days! If you want a peak into the new location go check out our Flickr photo album.

We're also open for visiting hours every Tuesday and Thurday between 9.00 and 16.00 so you can drop by and pick up a bag of coffee or have a chat with us.

The address is ...
The Coffee Collective ApS
Kirstinehøj 52, Port 4
DK-2770 Kastrup

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Blogosphere

As the summer is officially over here in Denmark many people turn to indoors activities, such as reading coffee related blogs. A relatively new one (just like ours) is the Barista Magazine blog where Sarah and Ken post about coffee, magazines, barista stuff, movies, music and everything else they find interesting. I think the blog started as an advice from Ken's therapist to have an(other) outlet for all his mental creativity, but recently they also allowed the Editorial Advisory board - which I happen to be on - to post. Check it out!

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