benk kaffee bar - Sandnes

ben k kaf fe bar / Bench Coffee Bar

Cupping on the bench

Written by: Thomas Date: 02/03/2010
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Every Tuesday at 17 (5:00 PM) is the opportunity to taste the coffee on the bench.

Cupping is the term the industry uses it to taste the coffee.

What we want to achieve with tirsdags cuppingen is to provide our customers annledningen to taste different types of coffee next to each other and thus experience the great differences between countries, prosseseringsmetoder and brewing methods.
Hope to see you to a upretansiøs

photo: Thomas during 2008 Barista competition

NM-preliminary results

Written by: Thomas Date: 23/02/2010
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After 10 very good, and brave, baristas conducted yesterday nm-qualification with flying colors, it was nevertheless three worthy winners who stuck out.

Nils Jøssang (*see Nils in photo at competition), Kristian Bye and Simon Dahl (all from Total in Haugesund) went on to a championship final in Oslo 22 to 24 April.

Here on the bench, we expect the voltage on the final settlement of the points ifht rest of the country gives Kevin Ehrenberg and Thomas Jørgensen a "wild card" to the final. stay tuned ...

photo: *Nils Jøssang (from Total) during the 2010 Barista competition trials at 'bench'

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Personal Note - written by Sharon (me) 05/03/2010:

I was there! for an hour at least, during Nil's trial & the Chocolate Girl's too -

she ended up having the Best Espresso I heard about later?!

Every Barista competitor had to make an Espresso, a Cappuccino & a Specialty Drink

(many used chocolate & chili's?!)

All 3 coffees in under 30 min's I think was their time limit, with 2 tasting/scoring judges

& 1 judge timing...

Local newspaper were there & at least 1 local television station, got lucky days afterwards

& caught it on TV as was channel surfing (even though all in Norwegian, I "knew" what was going on--this time?!)

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Kevin from the 'bench' on to Oslo

Written by: Thomas Date: 24/02/2010
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After the points from all the qualifying places in Norway has been considered together,

there were still seats left in the final in Oslo. SCAE decided to provide a place special to each of kvalikkstedene. Kevin from the bench was next man on the list and are therefore further to the finals in Oslo.

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Webpage Link: http://www.benkkaffebar.no/
Blog Link: http://benkkaffebar.blogspot.com/

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Bench CoffeeBar Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10-19
Wednesday: 10-22
Thursday: 10-22
Friday: 10-22
Saturday: 10-17
Sunday: 11-17

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Benk CoffeeBar Location:
Olav Kyrre Gate 5
4306 Sandnes
95 82 17 25
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Note: text was translated from Norwegian, so not all the words translated to English