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"A Love Affair with Coffee" - Rob Boyer

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The following is from our 1st place finalist in Focus on the Roast, Rob Boyer of ‘A Love Affair of Coffee’. The inception of ‘A...

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Soil Management - Coffee Farmers Look Beyond Rust

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For those of you interested in greens, long down the road, take time to read an excellent article on soil management from Daily Coffee News....

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Starting a Business in Coffee

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Adam Moore bought one of our 1K roasters and sent along some introduction thoughts. Adam has agreed to “think aloud” and discuss how he approached...

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Cook's Illustrated Weighs In on Gear

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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....

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Great Latte Art, eh?

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My homeroaster group convened in Seattle for the SCAA convention. We stayed at a bud’s home and had a latte art throwdown. The judge had...

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Seasoning the Drum

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Setting up the greens, Weigh out 1 kilo (2.2 pounds). Make sure the face plate is warm! Letting the machine warm up for 30 minutes...

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Coffee Broker Hedging

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The coffee brokers in North America (and elsewhere) are impacted by the price of coffee as traded on the commodities market. Coffee prices go up,...

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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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