KeepCup Morning

Beautiful vid. These Keep Cups are now for sale at our Take Out Nation on Hopland. €10 for the 8oz and €12 for the 11oz, first drink for free.

Wifi

At Caffenation Hopland we had to stop the wireless internet because more and more people were occupying tables for hours and hours. On itself not the biggest of problems as long as the 'regular' and 'not-so-slow' clients still had a seat to sit on.
But once you end up in situations were your Barista's don't have a job while they want to serve someone a cup of coffee, but can't because there's no seating - the internet surfers are taking those, remember....?

Today at 'This is London' an interesting read on this subject.
Click this.

Today at our new bar - Nationale Bank - we have, again, more seats to sit on and the WIFI is on the to-do list. At least the internet company has this planned, but is very sloooooooow.

Pick Your Filter (Dutch)

Pick your Filter :
Al jaren droomde ik er van om mensen die Filter/Press koffie komen kopen of drinken, deze eerst te laten proeven alvorens ze tot een beslissing over gaan.
En in onze bar bij de Nationale bank hebben we dit nu voor mekaar gekregen.
De Bunn ICB is een schitterende machine die heel stabiel uiterst smakelijke koffie's brouwt.
Deze worden dan in super isolerende aftapcontainers gedaan en staan in de shop klaar om door u gebruikt te worden.
Vanzelfsprekend helpen wij graag een handje, maar voel je vrij om zelf een mok in de hand te nemen en de proef op de som te nemen.

















Caffenation filterkoffie - er is keuze uit 3 smaken - is een quality-time-drink waar je minstens een kwartier van kunt genieten.
Een kop van 25 cl kost €2,5 en een refill slechts €1,5!

Pakjes van 250 gram bonen kosten tussen de €4 en €6,5.

Federal Reserve Caffenation

Yes we moved. Well, not totally. The small room on the right hand side of the entrance at Hopland 46 is still ours. We call it Take Out Nation and it's the smallest espresso bar in town.
Opening hours : weekdays 8.30 till 17h. Saturday 9 till 17h.

The main bar is now located along the Federal Reserve on the Mechelsesteenweg number 16!
It's now our head quarters and the biggest specialty coffee bar in town.
Opening hours : weekday 8.30 till 18.30h. Saturday 9 till 19h. Closed on Sundays and bank holidays.

The first days were a blast. Very busy and lots of positive reactions.
We welcome you to test the latest filter roasts. All for free at the shop on the ground level.
Or see what our new espresso machine, the La Marzocco Mistral is brewing for you.

Look at this nice new Brewer

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LGB 2.1

We have a new Top Blend.

This Little Green Bag is the first new one for the quarter and therefor called 2.1.

It's two equal parts of the Colombia El Meridiano and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe.

Every year we do a lot of Yirgacheffe. It's for sure our most popular coffee region ever.

The first containers of the new season from Ethiopia, actually its for most origins, are sometimes a bit shaky. Very often they want to speed this up at origin and therefor we don't receive the best selection/screening of beans. Mostly 2nd or 3rd container is better, but of course you always have to test first, before drawing conclusions.
So, we ordered a couple bags of the new crop Yirg and were curiously waiting for the first roasts of this holy bean.
That day Jeff and I brewed, immidiately after the cooling down, an aeropress with the Yirgacheffe filter roast and discovered an insane sweet green jasmin tea flavor. Partially this had to do with the freshness, but anyhow, we knew for the first second on this was a stellar roast.

Now a couple weeks later we had it as an espresso and filter of the week and with such a succes we decided to blend it in already.

Probably this blend is going to last for a couple of months.
The Colombia is very creamy and stable.
And the Ethiopian always a good blender.
Both coffee are sweet, low on acidity and bitters and with a medium body. The espresso's are very complex and mild. The milk based drinks better then ever.
Also on filter we have great results with this blend.

Good luck to anybody.
Don't hesitate to review this LGB 2.1 and comment.

Aeropress Recept Jonas (Dutch)

Jonas :

"Mijn techniek is vrij simpel :

Eerst verwarm ik de aeropress en filter.
daarna giet ik 70° warm water op de 18 gram op 5.4 gemalen koffie tot ik iets onder de helft zit met genoeg turbulentie.

Ik start de timer zodra het water de koffie raakt en tel zo met opgieten en bloom zo een 20 seconden.
Na deze 20 seconden Bloomen giet ik de aeropress vol en zet hem vacuum en wacht even tot ik 50 seconden ver zit.
Daarna duw ik 30 seconden lang et voila."

En 2de plaats was een feit.
Good luck voor degenen die het thuis (of op de werkvloer) proberen willen.