Bryggen Coffeeshop

Café Bryggen is one of the cafés in town where you can sense the morning pulse of Copenhagen. Sitting on the bar-stools next to the floor-to-ceiling windows, you have a clear view over the morning busy Fiolstræde. Some people are coming in for a quick take-away coffee, some stroll straight by the cafe at a high pace, and yet others are taking a seat to read the newspaper and steal a quiet moment before going back into the street.

Everything in Bryggen is ecological - milk, juice, coffee, pastry... Our first impressions are that "ecological" seems to be the trend these days in Copenhagen. 
But what are people sitting in the café this morning drinking?

Surprisingly enough - it's tea! Wonder if the tea is better here or is it just a coincidence?Are Copenhageners substituting their coffee with tea? Is it because they believe it is more healthy? Or it warms them better in this endless winter?

Café Sommersko

“Girl from Ipanema” is flowing from the speakers. According to the old “flip” clock on the wall it is a (perhaps warm) Thursday summer morning in Copenhagen, more precisely June 12th, 8.10 am. This computer however, tells a whole different story - Friday, February 12th, 9.43 am.
Copenhagen fashion week has just started and Café Sommersko is located in the heart of Copenhagen, close to some of the hottest Danish clothing designer brand headquarters - Bruuns Bazar, Heartmade...

The Idea

Two coffee enthusiasts with bohemian inclination join forces. What's it all about? It's all about coffee!

One winter morning there is a mail in Casper’s inbox:

Di: "I have an idea! Want to write a blog with me about coffee culture in Copenhagen"?

Having caught the future co-writer having a swell morning, the decision is not hard to make:

Casper: “Of course”…
and just like that the coffee blogger team came to being!

Casper: “Where is this idea coming from”?

Di leans back, taking a philosophical pose, throws her hair backwards, with one hand scratching her chin and begins:

“How does one reconcile one's need for freedom, the desire to feel carefree and have fun on one side, and the expectations of the surrounding for you to behave as a responsible and productive person, on the other?
Well, we live in times where we are made to believe that having it all seems possible. Even if it is not, it seems worth trying. I want to be part of the urban life here and now, I want to observe, indulge myself in soul searching and come out of it a better person…or not :)”

(“Yeah, yeah right whatever “- thinks Casper, with a puzzled look)
Casper summarizes what he makes immediate sense of: “Ok… So we are writing a blog. I suppose you imagine writing about something like:

Which cup of coffee is the Copenhageners favorite cup?
Do Copenhageners take pleasure in the smell and taste of big cups of filtered coffee served early in the morning?
A big cup that prolongs the drinking experience and makes the morning pass at a slower pace? Or an espresso that gives a quick kick to run from an errand to an errand? Do they prefer cappuccino or latte? Or…”

Di: “Yes, something like that. To find out how Copenhageners drink coffee!
Why do they drink coffee? Where do they drink it? What kind of coffee do they drink? Do they have company when they drink coffee?”

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So, how hard can it be? On this blog we will try to answer these questions, and thereby try to draw a picture of the coffee culture in Copenhagen. In doing so we, of course, have to visit a lot of cafes in Copenhagen and drink a loooot of coffee. Lovely!