This is a very special TNT (not because of the birthday thing) because it will take place just under two weeks before the Gothenburg area Barista Cup competition.

More information to follow!

TNT|GBG 4 (Facebook event page.)

To that end, I am very proud to announce that from here on out I will not be the sole party responsible for organizing and hosting the TNTs. First Degree Coffee will be splitting the organizational duties with former DaMatteo barista extraordinaire and former TNT winner, Ms. Camilla Pettersson. I am looking forward to working with Camilla and having her input on how to make the TNTs run a bit more smoothly. Also, between the two of us it will be a lot easier to hit the streets, visit cafés and promote the events.

While I am very proud to have Kaffemaskinen as our primary sponsor, I can’t foresee this thing going much further without some major support from some more sponsors.

Anyway, the winners of this month’s Throwdown was DaMatteo’s Viktor Steinke! Viktor took home a nice 750 kr prize (as well as a T-shirt designed by coffee geek supreme, Brian Jones.) Our second place winner, Edvin Vinthagen (also of DaMatteo), won a Clever Coffee Dripper and our third place winner Markus Garberg of Espresso House took home a bag of Guji from David Haugaard. I just wanted to add that Mr. Garberg finished in the top three at the previous TNT also so, it’s basically a matter of time before he takes home the big one!

Now begins the process of organizing the next one. I have a few ideas as far as potential venues goes and one very specific date in mind but we’ll see how the chips fall.

Below is a picture comprising the top four pours of the night. I hope to have more pictures up as they become available.

These are the best of the best from TNT 3!

So here we go! The third edition of Thursday Night Throwdown, Göteborg is just around the corner. The vital information is listed above. Big thanks to the wonderful gang over at da Matteo for volunteering to host. I have to say, even though the gang at da Matteo are pros, they have some big shoes to fill as the previous TNT at Café Con Amor went absolutely smashing. Jill and Johanna did a fantastic job providing wine and an amazing spread of baked goodies to munch on as the competition proceeded.

As for that previous TNT, there were 18 competitors (up from the twelve who competed in the first one) representing such a diverse range of cafés as the aforementioned daMatteo, also Bar Italia, Sweet Coffeebar, freakin’ ESPRESSO HOUSE (rep-ra-zent!), Mahogny (of course) Kaffemaskinen and, naturally, Café Con Amor. In the first version there was a simple 20 kronor entry fee to compete, in the second the fee was doubled to 40 kronor with the winners taking the whole pot. In addition to  the cash prize a gift package was provided by Kaffemaskinen.

Before I forget, I just wanted to give a big public congratulations to the winners of the first two TNT’s! The winner of the first Throwdown was Jesper Tullback of the just mentioned-in-the-previous-paragraph Kaffemaskinen! Winner number two was the lovely and talented Camilla Pettersson (formerly of daMatteo.) Congratulations to both of you and good luck to all who will be competing next week.

Anyway, I’ll be back to make this blog a bit more informative and what not. Eventually we’ll settle on a specific set of rules and those rules will be posted here on the blog. At the second TNT my friend Paulina deejayed and that really helped lighten the asmosphere tremendously so I cannot forget to give her some mad props. She (or her other half Johannes) will be spinning at TNT|GBG 3.0 as well as just about all the future TNT’s. With that, I’d like to perhaps post her playlists here on the website. There are pictures from the previous events on Facebook courtesy of Brian Jones  and dear friend Anders Perman (here, here and here) but I would like to consolidate all that and future images here on le blogue.

So stay tuned, make sure to keep an eye on den här blog as well as on the Book of Face. There is also a TNT|GBG Twitter account so if you have a Twitter account feel free to follow at @TNTGBG!

KLARA, FÄRDIGA, THROW!!!

As soon as we settle on a set of rules that feels most comfortable there will be a page here featuring the rules.

Also, I thought it would be nice if there were a sign-up function here on the website.

Right now, the Facebook page will be the main source of all things that  pertain to TNT|GBG.

Ciao!