March 2012
This Year
After the drastic movements of NYC market the last weeks and after unexpected problems in some of our supplying countries, we hope, and expect more smooth movements from now on. Still we can see that heavy rains in some production countries definitely will mean smaller production volumes from for us important suppliers – like Colombia and Dominican Republic.
February 2012
Tord Wetter,
the owner and heart of Mauritz Coffee was hounored by Västra Gastronomiska Akademin in Gothenburg on the 25 of February with a Diploma for “long and faithful service with endurance in the western Swedish gastronomy”. We applaud; Mauritz Coffee is our absolute favorite coffee shop in Sweden!
January 2012
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As usual we do not send you New Year cards. Instead we proceed paying for four pupils’ education in Madagascar, www.coeurmalgache.org. We also, as usual, support The Swedish Sports Organization for the Disabled which we think runs a most valuable activity, www.handikappidrott.se
We are looking forward to a prosperous business year 2012, and wish you the same!
Our nearest plans are to work, work, work. In April we will visit The SCAA Symposium in Portland, Oregon to get inspired, get new ideas and meet old and new friends from the coffee world.
December 2011
The number of micro roasters in Sweden is growing rapidly. We find it wonderful that
the interest for quality and specialty coffee increases in Sweden, a country that has the
second highest coffee consumption in the world.
We are happy to serve these roasters with green coffees from all over the world. Coffees
with the quality that suit their demands.
October 2011
Visitor from Rwanda
Mr Emmanuel Rwakagara from COOPAC MUSHONYI came to see us for some days and we made a trip to visit clients. This cooperative is located in the Western Province with very high altitude in Uganda. The coffee is grown on Island of Kivu lake and has been awarded for its’ high quality.
Colombia
To go to Colombia in October has almost become a tradition for Inge and for the second
time he visited San Alberto Estate in the Quindio area. This was a great pleasure; the
farm is managed almost like a botanical garden and is magnificent.
Here they produce a coffee which is most suitable for the Scandinavian single origin market.
The San Alberto Estate coffee is packed in beautiful 35 kilos bags.
Inge and Juan Alberto Villota the owner of San Alberto.
The plantation is planned and marked in detail.
A technique for drying coffee beans.
Cup testing – always essential!
August 2011
This years wandering took place in southern Sweden. Together with our friends and in magnificent weather we experienced Skåne for a week. Staying at B&Bs walking in a landscape that differed from deep forest to sandy shores we had a great time.
Passing KAFFEROSTERIET PÅ ÖSTERLEN we had to stop for a coffee. If you are interested in beautiful design and furniture from Norrgavel this is the place to go to. If you are interested in a nice cup of coffee – forget it. Rather you proceed to Stortorget in Ystad where you may enjoy one of the best cups of coffee you have ever had! We were served a wonderful cup of Yirgacheffe by the enthusiast Tilde Möller from her magnificent bicycle which she had constructed together with a friend. Apart from serving great coffee, the business idea is to build coffee bikes and sell to other coffee enthusiasts. kaffekaffe.patabomb.se
Inge, the backpacker and a little bit of Österlen in Skåne.
Foto: Kjell Johansson
Tilde Möller + coffee bike + good coffee machine + Yirgacheffe = a place in our coffee shop favorite list !!!!!!
June 2011
As a part of the education, when you attend high school with economic focus in Sweden, you have to start a company, run it for some time and then close it. During last winter we were contacted by three girls who had, in our opinion, a great business idea: to sell exclusive coffee from Dominican Republic. We were happy to support them with knowledge of this commodity and provide them with the coffee. They have sold at several types of markets and exhibitions, and they have made a success! Nice girls, nice coffee, nice booth! Their booth even won the first price at the Uppsala high schools exhibition.
As planned they have closed the business but are intending to start up a new serious company this autumn and then increase the assortment. We wish these ambitious girls all the luck!
Dana Elmalla, Julia Adebäck and Malin Yvell at the booth showing their first price diploma for having created the very best booth. Taste for Occasions was the name of the company.
April 2011, SCAA Conference
Forget about espresso, café latte, capuccino, café macchiato! No, we don’t think so!
But the new trend is definitely DRIP-COFFEE! Many booths at the exhibition showed brewing equipment, more or less successfully designed. There even was a Brewers Championship parallel with the Barista Championship. Though, however hard they tried to make it sexy - it was not.
As a show, we prefer big shining Italian espresso machines with all their wonderful sounds!
The yearly SCAA Conference occurred in Houston. The exhibitors were not as many as former years, though most of the absent companies were those that presented paper mugs, jewelry, magazines etc. There was no lack of interesting booths.
How on earth does this drip-thing work?
The Japanese really knows how to do things seriously and beautifully. UCC’s marvelous siphon dripping equipment is just magnificent! What a show!
March 2011
After 9 years we returned to one of our favorite coffee spots: KAROMA ESTATE in Dominican Republic. We were filled with admiration to see the amazing development of this farm. Begona and Bent Ahm have been determined to produce the very best coffee, they did it at our first visit and they certainly still do.
They have been dedicated in their work for a good environment, not only by constructing compost and facilities for purification, but also by planting flowers and prohibiting littering. The area is beautiful - dazzling and relieving free from garbage, half wild hens and chickens are moving around the bushes and the view towards the mountains is magnificent. In a special newly built little house is a Coffee School where they teach how you produce the best coffee.
We could clearly see their impact on the village nearby where the houses now are newly painted and the road totally clean. Nearby the village school Karoma Estate has bought a house with two apartments for the teachers who nowadays stay in this village situated far away up in the mountains. They have also sponsored the school with a huge greenhouse where the school children nurse coffee plants that they take home to their parents. In this area you have to grow coffee if you want make a living!
Proud Karoma Estate owners, Begona and Bent Ahm
View from the center of the Estate
I think this area is even more dazzling now (middle of April)!
Beautiful Coffee!
Conditions for good coffee.
Begona and Inge visit the schools greenhouse together with two teachers.
Village Street in Las Lagunas
Begona Ahm has been decorated by the President of Dominican Republic for
Exceptional Efforts in the Agricultural Area.
January 2011
We wish you all a wonderful New Year!
As you might have noticed we haven´t sent you any Christmas Cards. Instead we proceed paying for four pupil’s education in Madagascar. www.coeurmalgache.sitew.com 
We started this year with an amazing visit to Nepal
In the region NOWAKOT, about 70 km north of Katmandu, Mr. Ujjal Rana and his wife Nina have made their dream come true. They have created a wonderful Coffee Plantation where every plant is their baby. They started 15 years ago and formerly abandoned rice fields have got new life, they are not only nowadays filled with beautiful coffee trees, but also butterflies, birds and even leopards!
Snow-fed Trisoli River irrigates the fields and washes the parchment. This coffee is snow water washed, shade grown, organic, sundried.
The project has a considerable impact on the livelihood of the local of this backward region especially in regard to women employment and training. It has also contributed to reforestation, soil conservation and restoration of wildlife.
But as we are coffee traders - the main thing – here is a coffee of very high quality produced!
Mount Everest Supreme has a mild vanilla and jasmine flavor, a note of cocoa. The acidity is mild. We can highly recommend it.
Situated at the foot of Ganesh Himal we think this is the northernmost coffee project in the world.
On our way to the farm we stopped to enjoy the scenery. Himalajah!! Inge and Lotta.
There is an exciting jungle atmosphere in the plantation and you can hear the river stream.
The nursery. Every plant is “homemade”.
With Ujjal Inge got an immediate contact, they had some good laughs together.
September 2010
We are proud to announce two new origins in our assortment:
- Bugisu A and AA. A family farmed Arabica from the slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda.
It has an intense and round character. Bigusu has a bit less acidity and more body than other
East African coffees.
- Mount Everest Supreme from Nepal. Isn’t it amazing that coffee is farmed on the slopes of the highest mountain of the world! And what a coffee! And that we have the honour to sell it!
- We are also happy to have Tanzania Livingstone again.
Autumn arrived suddenly after this nice summer. The coffee market though has been volatile. NYC has moved from 135 to 195 USct/lb and has forced us to work harder. Still we had the opportunity to spend a week in Scotland with our hiking friends. We walked 110 km in 6 days and came home with a lot of new muscles.
Inge posing with Loch Ness in the background.
Summer 2010
This summer, by the Baltic Sea was extraordinary. We experienced an African heat for weeks, we felt as if we had been transported back to Mombasa where we were in February.
