While visiting Copenhagen, there are several places to have great coffee and try a delightful sampling of Scandinavia’s finest roasters. By walking (or biking) a straight line northwest from the city center, there are opportunities to taste coffee roasted by Solberg & Hansen, Koppi and the Coffee Collective—quite a Nordic trifecta. More »
One of the recent trends in coffee is that some of the smaller specialised coffee roasters around the world and in the Nordic Countries are starting to treat coffee as a seasonal product. For many of you this may be a bit frustrating as a lot of your favourite coffees might be unavailable from your local roaster for long periods of the year. More »
Sam and Corey are currently travelling around the Nordic countries on a mission to explore Nordic café culture and to eventually publish a book about the project. We wrote about Takk when the project was being funded on Kickstarter. Kalle Freese caught up with the two of them in Helsinki to have a chat about them, Takk and Nordic coffee culture. More »
On the 12-15th of June this year, the World of Coffee expo was held in Vienna. Held in conjunction with this event was the World Barista Championship, a now classic competition where baristas from all over the world showcase fantastic coffees, great skills and plenty of new ideas. More »
For a year now, we have been looking at what constitutes a Nordic coffee culture. Both in terms of concrete history and traditions, but more importantly also the more intangible sense of place coffee enjoys in our lives. More »
Our last contest winner is Hrafn Thorvaldsson, a university student from Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. He is the lucky winner of a Wilfa Svart Manuell and a Malt grinder! More »
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A small selection of the best coffee bars in the Nordic countries. Click here for the complete list.
Originally opened in early 2011 as a small place to do a bit of coffee research, JACU—named for a bird [...]
Since starting up in mid-2011, Djäkne coffee bar, a self-professed “entrepreneurs café”, has been busy serving the people of Malmö [...]
Initially opened as a store specialising in Cuban products, Cuba Life, now helmed by Steinar Svenning, has since 2008 turned [...]
Mean Bean is the second venture of the duo behind Cuba Life, led by Steinar Svenning. Since opening in May [...]
Opened in 1996, Det Lille Kaffekompaniet (The Little Coffee Company; DLK) was opened by four students at the local university [...]
Brian W. Jones 
Tim Wendelboe 
Jesper Bood 
Kalle Freese 
Tumi Ferrer 
Klaus Thomsen 
