Latte Art Throw Down

To celebrate cikopi.com’s fourth year anniversary, I hereby invite all the talented baristas out there to show off your skills in a Latte Art Throw Down competition, as scheduled above. This is a fun and less-rules-the-better event,…

Pemenang Quiz 1/15

Banyak peserta Quiz yang sudah menjawab dengan benar, 1/15 adalah rasio kopi dan air dan untuk mudahnya kami menganggap benar untuk jawaban : 1 gram kopi dengan 15 gram/ml air. Rasio ini bukan ukuran mutlak, tapi bisa digunakan sebagai titik…

My regular Coffee Column on Food Service Today Magazine

A month ago, Multi Flashindo Kharisma (MFK) – one of the well-known companies specializing in F&B in Indonesia – contacted me and offered me to write for their magazine called Food Service Today. An offer that I accepted as soon…

Jakarta Barista Championship

The following is a release from the committee of Jakarta Barista Championship, which will be held at Smesco building from 14-15 June, 2012. It’s a competition to fight for the Jakarta Governor’s trophy and it’s open for public. It’s…

It's the "F" word ...

Four years hardly calls for a special celebration, but my assumption about coffee as an endless topic to discuss is correct. From here to there, stories of unheard coffee plantations and unique brewing process and equipments, as well as…

Pemenang Quiz Namai Saya

Dari hasil jawaban yang masuk, Froco telah memilih nama BHISMA dan selanjutnya akan digunakan sebagai merek mesin roasting mereka yang bekapasitas 3 kilogram. Menurut Christian Heryanto dari Froco, sebelumnya tidak  terpikir untuk menggunakan…

The online store SCAI & Portland SCAA Exposition

The Specialty Coffee Association of Indonesia (SCAI) online website has launched a new feature – “Store”, a page that showcases several items such as Agtron numbers, posters, tasting spoons, coffee literature as well as Le Nez Du.…

Cultivating and Processing Coffee (Part 2)

Image 1: Coffee Cultivating Class. Attended by 18 participants consisted of farmers, mentors and representatives from various non-governmental organizations in Aceh, Toraja, Jambi, Medan and even Papua. “There’s an old Javanese saying…

Melbourne International Coffee Expo 2012

Konsulat Jendral RI di kota Melbourne mengirimkan media rilis kepada saya tentang event Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE),  yang akan berlangsung dari tanggal 4 hingga 6 Mei 2012. Sebagai catatan, inilah event kopi terbesar yang…