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Roasters + Baristas: We Can Work it Out
Welcome to a new educational series in which we find ways to bridge the gap between the roaster and the barista, whose common goal of serving great coffee can be achieved by finding some common ground. This will be a ongoing series with new topics posted regularly – so check back frequently for more posts. … Read More
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Mill City Roasters at SCA Expo 2018
The biggest thing we’ll be doing in 2018 is decamping to the Seattle State Convention Center for the SCA Expo April 19th-22nd. This year we’ll be shipping 9 roasters ranging from 500 gram to 30 kg capacity including two 3 kg roasters in the subterranean Roasters Guild training area where we’ll be supplying machines as… Read More
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Minneroasta 2017 – 1st Annual Coffee Roasting Event
For those of you who haven’t heard, over the last couple of years Minneapolis, Minnesota has a developed extraordinarily vibrant coffee community. Here’s a very abbreviated list of local companies you probably know or probably should know: Caribou Coffee Cafe Imports Dunn Brothers Mill City Roasters Buhler Peace Coffee Dogwood Coffee Spyhouse Bootstrap Up B&W… Read More
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Cook’s Illustrated Weighs In on Gear
As an avid reader of Cook’s, I found their ideas on necessary coffee gear a good read. It’s great to see them raising the bar. Cook’s full article is available for your review. Read More Read More
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Great Latte Art, eh?
My homeroaster group convened in Seattle for the SCAA convention. We stayed at a bud’s home and had a latte art throwdown. Read More Read More
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Blending? T’aint Easy
Confession time, and it isn’t even Sunday. When I started roasted 9 years ago, I was taken with blending. I thought that was the ‘end-all, be all.’ Wrong. Read More Read More
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Espro Press – Makes one Forget France
Initial impressions: Great eye candy; display worthy. Stainless steel chrome buffed to the max. Solid — weighty for its size. Great cup. It’s designed to make you feel pampered. Read More Read More
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Using a Vacpot
A customer recently asked for advice on how to best use a vacpot. In that we wish to be a resource to you on all matters related to greens and coffee, let’s tackle that. I know of no other prep that showcases a great single origin quite as well. Warning, long blog coming! Read More Read More
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A Film About Coffee
Sweeping panoramic vistas of Rwanda high tropical gardens, delight in the faces of farmers, snippets of a variety of interviews brokers and big-gun roasters on coffee, or Katzu Tanaka romancing his espresso machine in a small Tokyo shop. Any one of these scenes would have been sufficient for the evening. Fortunately, they were bundled, edited,… Read More