The Coffee Professionals’ Committee

Leaping onto the Oslo coffee scene is The Coffee Professionals’ Committee. The brainchild of Rasmus Helgebostad, multiple Norwegian Cup Tasting Champion, fixture of the Bergen coffee scene and recent Oslo transplant, the “committee” will meet once every month to sample a broad range of both domestic and internationally available coffees. More »

For the Love of Fika

During my first visit to Sweden, long before deciding to move here, I knew that I could adjust quite well to Nordic culture due to its lovely traditions like fika—the Swedish coffee break. More »

The Nordic Coffee iPhone App

If you live in, or are travelling in, the Nordic countries, we hope you will enjoy our new – free! – iPhone app. It features all the coffee shops on the website plus a few extra, and will be constantly updated with new coffee bars. In addition, you are able to access a mobile version of the Nordic Coffee Culture website from inside the app itself.

For more information and screenshots, go to iTunes.

How Do You Brew? Tumi Ferrer, 2011 Icelandic Barista Champion

We caught up with 2011 Icelandic Barista Champion Tumi Ferrier, to ask him about his relationship with black coffee, personally as well as professionally. Tumi competed in this years’ World Barista Championship in Bogotá, Colombia, where he placed 19th out of 53 competitors from all over the world. More »

Stockfleths, Oslo

While founded in 1895, it was only in the 1990s that Stockfleths was transformed into a modern coffee shop. Since then, it has grown into a chain of seven coffee shops dotted around downtown Oslo and its surrounding areas. More »