I'm currently working on writing origin profiles by country and region for a company I work for and have encountered something I found surprising. I know its easy to view the DRC as a lost (or rather, misplaced) cause due to the many years of conflic
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I am running into some problems with my roast profile on my Diedrich IR-12. Below are two15# profile roasts that I have completed and am getting a coffee taste with a flat flavor. Any help from you all would be greatly appreciated.
15# Costa
Drop
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Read more…Everyone on here, are from different places. Big cities to small towns. I've been privileged to be able to have both of those experiences, however I prefer a smaller town. That's part of the reason Montana is my calling. So this is my question for th
Read more…hey all! moving on into february, hope everyone makes the leap successfully!
i posted a discussion before about offering free refills, or half-priced, etc., etc. wowwa!, got alot of feedback on that one...some education, some insight, even some v
Read more…The Barking Dog coffee lounge is a happy place to come and relax located in Downtown Orange and Beaumont Texas. We specialize in fair trade organic coffee roasted in Houston, Texas by Katz Coffee. Our goal is for customers to feel like they are famil
Read more…TO ALL TECHIES, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS OF THE MACHINE:
I am interested about learning more technical aspects of the machine, specifically the Synesso Hydra, Mirage , Speedster and of course the sweet Slayer. How does one learn the anatomy of these mac
We'll do a six month placement for our indi chain of four small rag-tag coffee shops... fly by seat of pants operation. Pay ain't great but it's half decent. Base would be about $1,900 a month US, plus tips figure close to another $1,000 a month... t
Read more…Paper towels or electric hand dryer???
Because we are on a little sandbar 420 miles south of Miami everything has to be shipped in and accordingly costs are much higher than mainland. Recently I saw an invoice for paper towels for automatic dispense
Read everything about both, we've always used Vita-Mix... but all of a sudden I have this uncontrollable desire to blend my cell phone.
Would like to hear comparisons from Blendtec users.
so, i recently became a coffee psycho. before i was a coffee "this is fun!". (a coffee psycho would be "this is fun and addicting! its like a healthy cigarette!") so i work at this little shop and we have a lot of down time, so i train alot. lately
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Read more…Everyone here on BX has some sort of strange, comedic or unbelievable story that happened to them while working in the cafe'. I think i have the craziest one ... but i want to hear some others first ;) Got a good one? post it here! ZEKE!
Read more…Just what is a fair price for coffee and who is not paying it? I recently read the book "Starbucked" by Taylor Clark. He has some great insights on coffee producing countries and their struggles and just who is responsible for much of it. It would s
Read more…Hey guys. I am curious to hear some stories on how people have benefited from using the bX site. I am constantly trying to keep it fresh and add features and would love to hear from retailers, baristas, consumers, farmers, etc., stories or ways you h
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