One of the very reasons I got into coffee was that I liked exploring flavors. It started with a weird idea to mix instant coffee with ice cream (don't ask), to finding myself immerged into a subculture of professionals wanting to push themselves forward in their search for new flavors. Today, unfortunately, the coffee industry …
No Aprils Fool
The speciality coffee scene has never been as uninteresting as it is today. Most of the New Kids on the Block are reinventing the wheel, there's a shit load of disgusting fermented naturals out there, and labels without anything in it. Competitions are just regurgitating what has been done a million times. I'm glad I …
Train Kept A Rollin’
Back in the saddle It was time to get a job, after almost a year home with my little guy as unemployed. Covid running rampant still, basically killed off the hospitality industry after two years of restrictions. I admire the people still going at it, but I think it's more submission than choice. I'm turning …
The South Is Gonna Rise Again
Just home from a month in Mississippi. Things are getting crazy down there, with covid 19 Delta version running rampant among the young, poor and obese. People dying like flies, yet still people rather pray than vaccinate themselves. It says a lot about a state that is the poorest in the US. Did some local …
The Italian Job
Had my last shift at my friend Enricos place, Swedens absolutely best pizza place, focusing on only the best produce money can buy. They sell pizza by the slice, ironically the people that bought Kafe Orion do too, and it's absolutely crap. Anyway. Very little coffee served here, but the one they serve is speciality …
Why I leave the Devil behind
For a long part of my life, I've seen Satan as an adversary to the Christian God. It started when I was a very young atheist, thinking Christianity was stupid (probably it started during church choir practice when I was 7). But funny enough, I've also been intrigued by the lithurgy of churches, and the …
Shake Your Blood
2021 is here, and my good intentions are still there. Been hard to avoid social media and other media outlets when the world has gone crazy. On a personal level, I've changed my eating habits, but it's rough. I thought I'd miss sugar, but really it's the savoury stuff that I crave. So far I've …
Three is a magic number
In a previous entry in 2018, I wrote a bit about my earlier life as a therapist. I had a profound idea of your mental state being somewhat dependent on three pillars to stabilize life for you. In short and from memory, your life has main three pillars to rest on: home, work and relations. …
What once was
Just watched a documentary on Norwegian Black Metal. What was fascinating was my own nostalgia. As you know, nostalgia comes from personal experience, and to the forefathers of modern black metal, their nostalgia, and what they considered "trve", was going back in time to a less complicated, less technical aspect of music that deeply moved …
The Ghost of Orion
all that remains are memories So it is final. Orion is getting sold, and almost four years of my life is at an end, with the unknown to follow. It's been a beautiful ride in many aspects, gotten to work with some of the best people I've ever met, serving so many wonderful regulars. But …
there are no heroes in coffee 