"Haraka haraka haina baraka"

"Haraka haraka haina baraka"
Originally uploaded by safarinjema

One of the photo's from this year's SCAE photo contest.
My favourite from the list.

Level Ground Coffee Bags

Latte Art Exposé

Luca Siermann made some wonderful Latte Art photo's that are shown on his website via a automatic slide show. This way u can c how certain designs are done.
Have a look here. And click all the 6 different creations on the left. Very helpful for those who want to learn the movements and patterns.

(thanks Luca for the effort)

Cupping Event April 2010

6 Yirgacheffe's, 1 Kenia, 2 Brazil, 1 Malawi were cupped. Most from Espresso lab Cape Town.
No fancy or professional cupping sheets at hand. But this doesn't mean you guys have to stain them. ;-)

Aeropressing the Aeropress

Aeropressing the Aeropress
Originally uploaded by flippantfiasco

Caffenation Fans in Action

The above fan wants to stay incognito.
Nice boots!

Thumbs up Jef.
Coming for his latte from day 1 the bar opened, almost 7 years ago.
Very often he had the bar for his own. Nowadays he has to fight for a chair, but doesn't give up.
Always very welcome brother.

We end with the future of Caffenation.
These twin brothers know where to get the good stuff. They come all the way from the other side of Antwerp for a sweet machiato with honey.
We love you guys.

(Ex) Barista in Action : Bergami

Part III of my Barista in Action series : The manager in action :-)


The days I've been steering the machine seem to be history. Saturday's a couple of hours and the times I'm training rookie's at the steering wheel yes, but less and less the La Marzocco is in my hands.
Time for the slow bar to be launched. Still like to brew coffee's professionally, but bit by bit it's getting to much hard work, and with one thousand questions a day to be answered and phone calls to be made, I'm loosing Barista touch. Brewing filter and aeropress coffee's at the other (read 'my') side of the bar probably gets me back in touch with this old love of being a Barista, Antwerp Barista.

Here a couple of photo's of me at the bar. Photo's of Olympus man Bird.
Probably not the snappiest of shots, but that's all I got.

Bird in Action

Very innovative Latte Art by Bird. There's an Antwerp Barista (Peter H.) world champion, but as you can see there's a whole lot more in this town.
Enjoy.

Barista at Work

Getting ready for action :


Filling up 2 pitchers at once :

Behind the scene look :

Reward for excellence :

Trick with the Coffee Spoon

There was also a nice young girl who had some very exciting tricks with a coffee spoon, but no pics unfortunately.

Dogmilque's First Cup Photo Set

It all started with this cup July 2, 2005.
Up to November 8, 2009, this man posted his first cup every day.

I think this is a very cool arty set.

Direct Espresso Lungo Infusion

Here an example of drinking coffee straight from the tap. Respect Hidde.
Warning : Don't try this at home.

3 Caffenation Moments

Menu Art

The Kaldi Story Window (by Magali)

Teach 'em Young

Crossing Antwerp by Night

Shot this photo around midnight on my way back home from Kassa 4.
You can spot this van in the Verbondstraat.
I lived around the corner more than 11 years. In my days this Donko's Koffie van wasn't parked there though.

Latte Of The Day

latte Of The Day 9-21-2009
Originally uploaded by Mr. phelps

Wonderful

A Caffenation Espresso

San Francisco Coffee

Gerrit and his friend are back in town to dance for 'our' Ballet Van Vlaanderen.
Actually San Francisco is their hometown.
One of my dreams is to go their to see some good bars and taste their coffee's.

Oh lord I was happy when they brought along some goodies from San Fran this week.
Two Blue Bottle bags, One from Fourbarrel and a last one from Ritual. This Ritual Sundae Espresso Blend was a very full bodied drink. A bit comparable to the Stumptown Hairbender but not so brutal.
Then Blue Bottle's first was 17 Valley I think. Tasted like it contained a bit of robusta. Not as good as the Ritual, but still a very good cup.
The other two bags or for Saturday. If you're at Hopland fast enough you can taste them....

Meanwhile Apetown's art work is not getting the attention it deserves. Is this the reason he looks so offensive on this photo?













And a self portrait.
No, I wasn't drunk.