Coffee is no longer just hot liquid to me....
This past week me and 14 other staff members from all of the "Sweet Surrender" coffee shops headed to Copenhagen, Denmark. This is where we attended the 8th annual Nordic Barista Cup. The event is part competition/ part conference. It is where all 5 of the Nordic countries (Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden) come together to compete to see which team knows the most about coffee. Also during this time there are many lectures and MANY coffee tastings (also known as a cupping in coffee lingo) helping all of us coffee interested people learn all about what is happening right now in the world of coffee. You might think it is strange for a group of 10 Polish people + 5 Americans to go to a event where are countries are not even represented. But in Poland "Well made coffee" is still on the rise. It is still at the beginning stages so there is not a big championship for Poland and surrounding countries to compete in. This is as close as we can get to the expe...