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NORDIC ROASTER 2008 WINNER

The Aricha no. 7 from Tim Wendelboe was the best coffee on the Nordic Roaster 2008 cupping table. Out of the 10 nordic rosters his coffee got 16 votes from 55 leading thinkers and doers from the coffee world. Ola Brattås from Tim Wendelboe received the challenge trophy Saturday night in Oslo after the 2-day event Nordic Roaster 2008.

The roast master Ola Brattås at Tim Wendelboe explained that he roasted two batches of the Aricha. He first roasted one batch as a light roast and the other batch was darker roasted. This way he hoped to enhance the two caracteristic flavours in the Aricha: the fruityness and the acidity.

Ola's coffee was described as having an aroma with strawberry, dried figs, lemonberry, perfume and wax. The taste was like red berries, candy, ferment, very sweet. And the mouthfeel was fat and creamy and the acidity bright.

Ola can now call himself Nordic Roaster 2008. He received the trophy from Morten Wennersgaard from Solberg&Hasnen who was Nordic Roaster 2007.

You can read more about the results and the cupping notes for all the coffees at Nordic Roaster 2008 here.

Ola Brattås is the roast master at Tim Wendelboe and now also "Nordic Roaster 2008". Congratulations! 

For pictures from Nordic Roaster 2008 click here. 
NORDIC ROASTER 2008 RESULT AND CUPPING NOTES
Coffee nr.  Roaster  Blend/Single Origin            Cupping notes  Points
1 Johan&Nystrøm   
40% Kenya AA, Farran
60% Etiopia, Yirgacheffe Sidamo 3, sundried

AROMA: A bit burnt, not so open, notes of melon and strawberry.
FLAVOUR: Well balanced, fine acidity, fruity and fresh citrus. 
3
Brell 
50% El Salvador, El Borbollon, washed, sundried
50% Guatemala, Santa Paula Coban, SHB 


AROMA: Vegetable, woody, peanut, not so fresh, harshness.
FLAVOUR: Bitter chocolate, mint grass, hay, dry astringent mouthfeel. 

 0
Copa Con Oro 

60% El Salvador, Pacamara
40% Costa Rica, Tarrazú 


AROMA: Soft, sweet, bread, earthy, a bit burned, undefined fruityness, unclean. 
FLAVOUR: Dark chocolate, spicy, nuts, dull, fat mouthfeel, dry acidity, low acidity
 1
Kaffa 
100% Finca Mama Cata Boquette, Panama
Honey processed

AROMA: Floral, sweet citrus, bisquit, mint, light, pleasant.
FLAVOUR: Bergamot, clean, citrusy acidity, clean mouthfeel, elegant. 
 8
Paulig 
100% Kenya AB+, fully washed 

AROMA: Cedar wood, cinnamon, grapefruit,
FLAVOUR: Candy, Hubba Bubba, Grapefruit, Sweet bitter acidity, clear mouthfeel, clean cup. 
 10
Solberg&Hasnen 
40% Etiopia, Sidamo natural
35% Sumatra, Petan Kopi, washed sundried
25% Indonesia Java Blawan, washed 

AROMA: Kenya notes, freshness, burnt rubber, jammy, fermented fruit,
FLAVOUR: Slightly dry, earthy, jammy, Winegums, nicely balanced, fermented berries. Soft fat mouthfeel. Unclean cup.
 
 3


KONTRA Coffee 


70% Etiopia, Sidamo 3 Almaz Beleke
30% Kenya, Gethumbwini Peaberry


AROMA: Mandarine, light, flowering citrus, lightly fermented, strawberry sweet.
FLAVOUR: Juicy, balanced light, bubblegum, clean, lemon drops, pleasant sweetnes, full mouthfeel. 

 9

Tim Wendelboe
(Nordic Roaster
2008 winner


100% Etiopia, Aricha no. 7 


AROMA: Strawberry, dry figs, lemonberry, perfume, wax.
FLAVOUR: Red berries, candy, ferment, very sweet and fat mouthfeel, bright acidity, medium clean cup.
 
 16

David Haugaard 

30% Panama,Gonzalo Rojas, pacamara.
30% Sumatra, Lintong
40% Etiopa, Aricha nr. 9

AROMA: Strawberry, burned bread, candy fruit, bitter chocolate, a little herbal.
FLAVOUR: dark heavy, flat acidity, sweet, blueberries, ferment, dry heavy mouthfeel, blanaced, medium cleanliness. 
 4
10 
Kaffitár 

60% Kenya, Karigocho
25% Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Rio Azul
15% Costa Rica, Naranjo, micro lot

AROMA: Light vanilla, sweet, bread, dry, dark, earthy, nuts.
FLAVOUR: Earthy, dark, bitter chocolate, woody, dull, dry in the end, past cropish, caramellized. 
 1
         
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