Swedish fish - behind the scenes rebuilding a public aquarium

Sallstrom · Oct 4, 2018

Brew12 said:
Very nice! You must like yourself!

One of the hardest coffee related things I noticed in Europe is that office buildings all had single cup coffee makers. I'm used to the 10 cup pots here in the states. Not to wander too far... but having to match the beer glass to the beer, and for that glass to have a fill line was hard to get used to, also. Seem to only have noticed that in Switzerland though.

I think it differs a lot anywhere you go. In Sweden the filter coffee is most common. We got that at work and I'm so tired of it. That's why I nowadays make my own morning coffe and bring to work

But I do a coffee americano - dubbel espresso and some water.
And a coffee in Southern Europe means an espresso. It's complicated..

But isn't the US coffee usually not so strong?

I love it when a thread wanders away into whole other subjects! But we will get back to building the new Aquarium, I promise!

Brew12 · Oct 4, 2018

Sallstrom said:
I think it differs a lot anywhere you go. In Sweden the filter coffee is most common. We got that at work and I'm so tired of it. That's why I nowadays make my own morning coffe and bring to work But I do a coffee americano - dubbel espresso and some water.
And a coffee in Southern Europe means an espresso. It's complicated..
But isn't the US coffee usually not so strong?

I love it when a thread wanders away into whole other subjects! But we will get back to building the new Aquarium, I promise!

Coffee in the US runs into a wide range of strengths, although espresso is relatively uncommon outside of coffee shops. The coffee selections I had in Germany were very similar to what I normally drink in the US.

Lasse · Oct 4, 2018

Who said Coffee machine - I can get Cappuccin0 too

Only Finnish people drink more coffee (per capita) than swedes.

And we love strong coffee. Once I work together with a girl from the US and on her first working day she said that she could make the coffee for us. O yeah. First taste - and all of us blow the coffee out - it was not stronger than Englishmens afternoon tea. After that day - she was not allowed to be closer to the coffee machine than 5 meters

But it could be that she was smart and put up the borders already the first day

However - she have never answered that question but today she make real Swedish coffee

Sincerely Lasse

Sallstrom · Oct 4, 2018

Lasse said:
Who said Coffee machine - I can get Cappuccin0 too
Only Finnish people drink more coffee (per capita) than swedes.

And we love strong coffee. Once I work together with a girl from the US and on her first working day she said that she could make the coffee for us. O yeah. First taste - and all of us blow the coffee out - it was not stronger than Englishmens afternoon tea. After that day - she was not allowed to be closer to the coffee machine than 5 meters But it could be that she was smart and put up the borders already the first day However - she have never answered that question but today she make real Swedish coffee

Sincerely Lasse

Easy now Lasse. This might be a sensitive matter ;Wideyed So I'll stay out of this. When I was in the US I stayed on a boat with Swedish coffee onboard, so I really has no say in this

Sea MunnKey · Oct 4, 2018

Coffee bashing? I like strong coffee although I don't really drink it too much myself. When we were in Hawi'i, I was so into the Kona coffee!!! Both hot and cold or brain freezing smoothie ones from their local McDonald's restaurants ... mmmmm

Brew12 · Oct 4, 2018

Sallstrom said:
Easy now Lasse. This might be a sensitive matter ;Wideyed So I'll stay out of this. When I was in the US I stayed on a boat with Swedish coffee onboard, so I really has no say in this

Don't worry, we understand!

Sea MunnKey · Oct 4, 2018

Lasse · Oct 4, 2018

Test of strong coffee. Hold a coffee-spoon vertical in your coffee cup. Take away your hand - if the spoon still will be vertical - drink the coffee

Sincerely Lasse

Brew12 · Oct 4, 2018

Lasse said:
Test of strong coffee. Hold a coffee-spoon vertical in your coffee cup. Take away your hand - if the spoon still will be vertical - drink the coffee

Sincerely Lasse

That may be a little extreme, but it may explain why you looked like this a few years ago!

Dr. Dendrostein · Oct 4, 2018

Brew12 said:
Don't worry, we understand!

Stop it Brew12, your killing me, just shoot me and get it over with, just killing me. ;Joyful

Dr. Dendrostein · Oct 4, 2018

Brew12 said:
That may be a little extreme, but it may explain why you looked like this a few years ago!

I thought that was Lasse's image

Now I see why one of my aunts married a man with Scandinavian heritage

Dr. Dendrostein · Oct 4, 2018

Like I said before, I bet when Lasse was in his 20's, he could set the world on fire.

Like Rob Schneider says "You can do it!!!"

Sea MunnKey · Oct 5, 2018

Brew12 said:
Don't worry, we understand!

Maybe we may have discovered the "secret" to why Sweden have so many talented hockey players ....

BTW my favourite Swede has always been Mats Sundin. Too bad I didn't "bump" into Mats while in Stockholm ...

Lasse · Oct 5, 2018

Sea MunnKey said:
BTW my favourite Swede has always been Mats Sundin. Too bad I didn't "bump" into Mats while in Stockholm ...

It means that you are to young to remember nr 21 - just look up in the roof

Beside nr 13

Sincerely Lasse

TheHarold · Oct 5, 2018

I thought the Swedish drink skimmate instead of coffee? ;Inpain

Love this thread, if you haven't noticed from the occasional like-spamming!

Sea MunnKey · Oct 5, 2018

Lasse said:
It means that you are to young to remember nr 21 - just look up in the roof Beside nr 13

Sincerely Lasse

Mats Sundin got drafted in 1989 (that was the same year I emigrated to Toronto) & he played for the defunct Quebec Nordiques hockey team and after it was all history with our Toronto Maple Leafs. Before Mats, it was Börje Salming. Our team has a very good connection with Swedish players ...

najer · Oct 5, 2018

They have a costa machine in the works mini restaurant, they ignore it unless something needs topping up, I always "accidentally" press the espresso button first and let it do it's thing before I press the americano button, bad Simon!

Sallstrom · Oct 6, 2018

Frags in different sizes on a phytoplankton diet. Looks healthy!

Unfortunately not enough food for the Scleronephthyas, they are fading away. This Dendronephthya sp still looks okey after 2-3 months. We have increased the feeding recently.

And here's two more propagation tanks behind the scenes. These will be moved and reused in the temporary Aquarium. But on top of each other.

Todays coffee incident was to use a old thermos. I got coffee with a taste of mold when I came to work and had my first cup... So today it'll be the city of Gothenburg's procured filter coffee. Yeey!

Sallstrom · Oct 6, 2018

TheHarold said:
Love this thread, if you haven't noticed from the occasional like-spamming!

I'm glad you like it!

This will be a long thread(and build) so I hope we can keep it interesting all the way through!

Brew12 · Oct 6, 2018

Sallstrom said:
Todays coffee incident was to use a old thermos. I got coffee with a taste of mold when I came to work and had my first cup... So today it'll be the city of Gothenburg's procured filter coffee. Yeey!

Poor mold. All nice and comfortable only to be scalded in coffee and digested.

Sallstrom said:
Unfortunately not enough food for the Scleronephthyas, they are fading away. This Dendronephthya sp still looks okey after 2-3 months. We have increased the feeding recently.

I wonder if they could be safely kept in a phytoplankton grow out system.