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Rwanda greens ready and waiting!

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We have new greens bagged and available for you today! Organic, Sweet, and Savory. This Rwanda grown bean has faint but clear pineapple, apple pie...

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Blending? T'aint Easy

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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,...

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BoldJava Tackles a Kilo

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On Roasting New Charge Sizes Worked most of the morning developing a 300 gram sample size in the 1K North roaster. Seemed to get it...

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Why do commercial coffee roasters cost so much?

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Most of the companies building coffee roasters in the US are producing machines in very limited volumes. I know from experience that in the 50-500...

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Espro Press - Makes one Forget France

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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...

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Using a Vacpot

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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...

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Sumatran Lintong Added to Inventory

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We cupped out three Sumatrans and bumped into a Lintong which we couldn’t resist. The Lintong area surrounds Lake Toba on the northern edge of...

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A Film About Coffee

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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...

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We just got back from Big Central

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It was a long, cold and blustery weekend here in Minneapolis, but we had a grand time roasting coffee and talking coffee roasters. Pictures below....

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Gas Orifice Sizing?

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You’ve lugged your bargain Craigslist or Ebay or Coffeetec bargain roaster home, connected an LP tank, mashed the igniter or ignition button and nothing happened....

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