in memorial…

Present morning sad news reached me.
The announcement of Mr van Eembergen’s death came very sudden for me.

Mr van Eembergen was a true pioneer for espresso in the Netherlands.
He was the man who brought espresso to our country.

I remember Mr van Eembergen as a craftsman and an expert with a mission.
His mission was the same mission as we have today; ‘better espresso in our country’.

In a way we can suppose that Mr van Eembergen was one of the first baristi in the Netherlands.
Although his age of 76 years, he always showed up at the barista championships, trades, shows and other espresso-occasions.

Mr van Eembergen was very interested in our ‘new’ barista skills. He didn’t always agree with us, but he respected us. And we respected Mr van eembergen…

Jeroen

photo shoot

Hello,

Last week we were working on a new brochure. On Tuesday we were working with a professional food-photographer (Hans). For an amateur photographer as I am, it was a very special day.

Big brother is watching it!
My Sony camera was a really a small camera next to the Nikon d200 with the magical lens they used. I was very lucky with Hans, because it was no problem for him when I touched his baby.

Now we’re talking!

Until Tuesday I was quite sure that the Canon eos 400 was my favorite to buy. But since Tuesday I’m very enthusiastic about Nikon camera’s.

The real work!
It was fun to work with professional people, and I’m sure that the pictures will be awesome.
I’ll post them when they are ready.

Until than you have to do it with my Sony pics!

Yes, i’m am an addict! (we used this thing to fill up the coffees without breaking the crema)

Hello all,

On Wednesday 14th of February (valentines day) I had the change to make some nice cappuccini for the editors of ELLE magazine. In Holland we have a special ELLE edition about drinks and food. I asked them two months ago, to watch my barista skills. And I was hopeful to make them enthusiastic to write more articles about the barista scene.

So February 14th we went to club ODEON in Amsterdam. The ELLE people came with a camera man to make a small video clip. I reached my goal because two women who didn’t like cappuccino when they arrived are now addicted to coffee (that’s what they say)

And one of the editors was really interested. He likes to be a master barista as soon as possible.

The next positive thing is that I’m going (trying) to write some articles/columns for ELLE website.
ELLE is a perfect stage to reach lots of people (consumers).

On this link you can watch the small movie clip on the ELLE website. ELLE

take care, Jeroen.

Barista party Antwerp 2

goodmorning all,

Question: Are you going to Antwerp?

If yes: Do you like to join our barista jam?

If yes: Please vote yes in the poll?

If no: Please vote no in the poll?

I’m asking you this because we like to know in average how much guests we can expact at our party.

We have to know because of the amount of Heineken beer we have to bring to Belgium

take care, Jeroen

Examination

Hello,

I would like to inform you about an exiting exame we did last month. Louis, Moniek, Louis wife Micky and My self went to Germany, Frankfurt to passe for our international barista certificate 1 & 2. And we all passed!!

But I have to be honest, it wasn’t easy for us. Especially the theory about regions was hard to learn. We planned to visit the exhibition and German Barista final between the classes and workshops but… We had to learn.

So we sat there in a restaurant like 16 year old students. Louis brought his coffee bible and we had two ours to learn our stuff.Alf Kramer was our teacher for the day. On day one we did certificate 1. That wasn’t hard to do. But to be honest again, during the practical test I was a bit nervous.

We had to make 2 perfect espressi, two over extracted and two under extracted. Simple stuff but my knees were shaking all over.

But happy enough we all passed!

Take care, Jeroen

SCAE international barista certificate

ExaminationHello all,Welcome in my new world. I decided to move from Blogspot to WordPress. WordPress give me more opportunity’s to make things visual. I would like to inform you that Louis, Moniek, wife Micky and my self went to Germany, Frankfurt to passe for our international barista certificate 1 & 2. And we all passed!! But  have to be honest, it wasn’t easy for us. Especially the theory about regions was hard to learn. We had plans to visit the show and German Barista final between the classes and workshops but… We had to learn. So we sat there in a restaurant like 16 year old students. Louis brought his coffee bible and we had two ours to learn our stuff.Alf Kramer was our teacher for the day. On day one we did certificate 1 and that wasn’t hard to do. But to be honest again, during the practical test I was a bit nervous. We had to make 2 perfect espressi, two over extracted and two under extracted. Simple stuff but my knees were shaking all over.But happy enough we all passed!  Take care, Jeroen