Fika Coffee Blog — FIKA
Choosing a Coffee That's Right for You
Light roast or dark roast? Ethiopian or Guatemalan? How do you choose the coffee you drink? Are you choosing the coffee you like best? We...
Dreaming and Doing
As we approach seven years with our roaster and three years with our cafe, we'd like to invite you inside our business to take a look...
The Breakup
I’m in the middle of a break up right now and it’s complicated. I’m breaking up with my (Fika’s) social media accounts...and it’s complicated. The...
"Coffee is People" - Finca la Esperanza
Hesitant to move as if it would break the beauty of the moment, I stood speechless and still on the rooftop terrace of the Villatoro's...
Tips for a Cause, Finca La Esperanza
No penny put in our tip jar goes to waste. But, we don’t ever keep them for ourselves - we give them to worthy causes....
Helping Our Brew To Do More Good
Have you brewed a cup of our Gishubi Hill-Burundi coffee yet? Known as the Cinderella of coffee (because its hidden, misused, misunderstood, and neglected), Josh...
Coffee, Patron Saint of Lost Things
Fika Coffee, the brick and mortar version, has been up and running for a few solid months now. We’ve seen a lot of great folks...
Tap, Sap, Brew & Sip
Springtime in the great north woods of Minnesota means a lot of things. It mostly means erratic weather patterns (40 degrees and sunny one day,...
The Story Behind the Red-winged Blackbird
A few months ago, we wrote a blog post about one of our most commonly asked questions: what’s the best way to brew coffee? This...