A date has been set, and now registration has been made. It’s now time to unpack the necessary preparations and to find a training schedule and format that will cover all areas of the scoresheet at hand. I’ve taken account...
Relationships, we need them in our industry to survive. Last week I was in Sydney and got the chance to meet another April Athlete who happens to also live here in Australia, Simon Gautherin. Simon is competing in the French...
The people that say that millennials are a generation of multitaskers probably skipped my generation, or just skipped me. Considering that I can’t even write a text message while listening to someone talking, this week´s big question mark is how will I smile,...
That old good guy of Aristotle used to say that we should act like navigators: mastered the theory, what’s more, important is knowing where you want to go and being reactive to the changing circumstances in which you are. All...
After a few years working in different areas in the specialty coffee industry, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and start competing in Brewers cup for the first time this year. I see in this competition a...
Last week we finally started to practice together, four days in a flat between coffee and pizza in Porto, Portugal. We started by tasting coffee samples to understand the range of taste we want to showcase and more important, to...
Hello, it’s me Erik. This log, I would like to talk about roasting, including our experience in competition roasting and what I would like to do for future competition roasting. After reviewing our experience in previous years, we found our...
Putting things into context The roasting championship is getting closer. One of the greatest opportunities for preparing for competitions is to learn something new. This past month has mainly been focusing on the first of three disciplines – the green...
Start from the basic. I decided that if I really want to start this journey I’d need to put all in right from the beginning creating a daily training routine. I’ve been pouring water over three empty v60s every day,...
