November 2010
23 posts
Nov 24th
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Sorry for the lack of posts this week.
Been super busy at the roastary. I’ll get some stuff lined up over the weekend and get the blog rolling. Thanks for your patience!
Nov 19th
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Nov 17th
seanrrwilkins asked: Hey thanks for the follow. Would you mind telling me how you came across my blog?

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Sean
Nov 17th
Nov 16th
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This Is My Kind Of Flickr →
John Ermacoff’s flickr. Lots of cool espresso equipment pictures.  Source: JimSeven 
Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
Cupping Observations
Recently some low-grade Ugandan coffee with some great direct trade opportunities found its way onto my cupping table. Perhaps through comunication and better practices, processing, shipping, and packaging (Grainpro), this coffee could be really good. I would have liked to upload my cupping scores and notes, but alas I was busy and didnt save them. But basically I found it to be a 76-78, very...
Nov 15th
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WatchWatch
socialbarista: check the beans Check the trier
Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 11th
Nov 10th
I've Been Sick :'-(
 Sorry I’ve missed a few days, I’ve been under the weather.  Feeling slightly better now, so I’ll get back to writing some new articles. In the meantime, please enjoy the Inverted French Press below, and if you didn’t read it check out the Defined Espresso Styles article also below.   New content soon, Promise.
Nov 9th
Nov 9th
Defined Espresso Styles
Coffee is not my only passion of flavor and aroma; in fact craft-beer brewing is where I got my first taste of the sensory experience that a specialty or craft beverage can offer. Through diligent brewing and tasting, I discovered the subtle changes that occur when parameters are tweaked. On top of developing vastly complicated and varied ales, beer brewers have done a great job of classifying...
Nov 6th
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Nov 5th
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Nov 5th
Nov 5th
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Cupping V. French Press →
As a cupping nerd, and a person who has put a lot of thought into French Press physics I find this very compelling. I’m going to run the test myself soon and report back.
Nov 4th
This one time at barista camp...Pt.2/3
 It was recently my privilege to have a quick phone conversation with World Class barista Sammy Piccolo. Sammy is not only a great barista, he’s also a really nice guy. I’ve run into him a few times at SCAA events and found him to be a very approachable dude, especially considering that he’s in the Pantheon of barista legends. While it was really fun for me to conduct this interview, I must admit...
Nov 4th
Nov 3rd
What Even Is Specialty Coffee?
Today I’m going to cheat. I have a lot of roasting to do, a couple of half baked blogs to finish, and an interview with Sammy Piccolo to prepare for (This one time at barista camp…Pt.2 of 3); so I’m straight up re-publishing something that I wrote a while ago for another blog. I like it.  So… what even is specialty coffee?  This is an astonishingly difficult question to...
Nov 2nd
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Coffee Cupping Photo Tutorial
 Coffee cupping is the industry standard method for grading and evaluating coffee flavor and aroma. As a coffee roaster, I cup coffee most days of the week. Sometimes just one or two samples for quality control or because there is a coffee that I’m thinking about buying. Other times I’ll have 10 samples on the table and a whopping 50 cup total. This is usually a weekly or bi-weekly...
Nov 1st
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