My problem is that changing a 6 to a 7 is not easy. Now next year, changing a 7 to 8, that will be a breeze. How can people just blow a firework and declare it a new year? It takes me 4 months, or more. lots of scratched out dates on my checks. Anyway, we are revving up top reopen, inventory, deep cleaning, all that. Everyone comes back tomorrow and then we try to overcome the accumulated orders since Dec 26. It was so nice to spend a week just being a home roaster, going out on the porch with the Hearthware and 4 oz of green. Brewing in my TechnivormThe Technivorm is a Dutch-made electric drip brewer for the home that is known for it's good design, and good results. You can find them for sale on..., or AeropressA portable coffee brewer that makes a unique dense brew, somewhat similar to an Americano.: The Aeropress looks like a giant syringe: coffee grounds are in the bottom,... if it was just for me. I had to come in to my cuppingCupping is a method of tasting coffee by steeping grounds in separate cups for discrete amounts of ground coffee, to reveal good flavors and defects to their fullest.... room a couple times during the break, but it was nice and relaxed. I know it’s an inconvenience that we’re closed. I order a lot online too. But then again, it’s great to have a break, and I feel almost like it’s a genuine sign of respect for the significance of the holidays, to think about something other than the day-to-day. And it’s a rare chance for me to be a home roaster again. I messed up a few batches, but even those were interesting to taste … to wonder why the Yirg had no citrus, and the DP Sidamo was more earthyEarthy is a flavor term with some ambivalence, used positively in some cases, negatively in others.: Sumatra coffees can have a positive earthy flavor, sometimes described as "wet... than I expected. I realized that, even with roasting just for moi, how important it is for me to know what I am tasting, where it came from, if it is what I expected, if there is something new I find in the cup. I can see that, even if I wasn’t Mr. Sweet Maria’s, I would still be doing this, thinking about it in the same way, wanting to know a bit about origins, and ponder the flavors. It changes other things for me too. When I read the paper, there’s some extra significance to a flood in Banda AcehThe northernmost district in SumatraL Aceh District is north of North Sumatra and produces some very classic Sumatra coffees. The center of coffee in Aceh is Lake Tawar..., SumatraIndonesians are available as a unique wet-hulled or dry-hulled (washed) coffees. Giling Basah is the name for the wet-hulling process in Bahasa language, and will have more body..., or EthiopiaEthiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia, or a coffee cultivar: Ethiopia, or more specifically the Empire under Haile Selassie, was known as Abyssinia. The name is Latin, derived from... clashing with Somalia, or Evo Morales shutting down a newspaper. Oh, enough of this, happy New Year! -Tom
