Fresh Roast Coffee Roasters

Home coffee roasting allows you to safely and efficiently produce the freshest coffee beans giving you the most flavorful cup…

the world is full of many fine barista and the culture they define...a new book entitled The Dark Roast will be available this upcoming Christmas 2012...see the inner workings of busy coffeehouses and the odd happenings of the worldwide coffee culture...all written by a well-versed barista of nearly 20 years!…

The 5th competition of the Barista Throwdown League is happening at 6pm July 29th at Evocation Coffee Roasters in Amarillo, TX.

The Barista Throwdown League is a monthly latte art competition for baristas in the Texas Panhandle. You…

I LIKE TO STORE MY COFFEE IN LARGE MASON JARS. THEY HAVE AIR TIGHT LIDS. YOU CAN GET THEM AT ANY GROCERY STORE OR WAL-MART.

If anyone is interested in opening a coffee shop with a CLOVER machine and first class beans from Starbucks or Peets in St Augustine along St George Street with extremely high foot traffic in partnership with the owner of the building please contact me directly to discuss the venture.  My email is matthewrice17380@comcast.net.

Hey there baristas and coffee professionals. A new web site has just been launched that you need to know about. 

It is FindMeCoffee.com, and we'd love it if you could check it out and let us know what you think of it. It's a directory of every coffee shop we could find. Right now it covers North America, but we plan to extend it to the world in the near future.

See if your coffee shop is listed! You can…

Teresa von Fuchs, a coffee and espresso consultant for iconic New York roaster Dallis

Bros. Coffee, will percolate a specialty caffeinated cocktail during the second annual

Coffee Cocktail Mash Up, which will take place on Sunday, June 24 at 5 p.m. at

Weather Up in Tribeca.

Teresa makes no beans about participating in specialty coffee competitions and

educational events. She was a judge for the U.S. Barista Competition, trained competitors for the Northeast Regional…

From Woodinville Works:



I don’t have anything against big chain operations (really, how would I live without Target?), but I kind of like stories about little independents besting them, or at least finding success in their shadows.…

Interesting article from CBS news:

Three cups of coffee per day might prevent Alzheimer’s in older adults

(CBS News) Is coffee a cure-all for chronic disease? Previous studies have tied drinking coffee to protective benefits against Parkinson’s disease, stroke, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

Now, new research shows drinking about three cups of coffee each day might stave off Alzheimer’s for older adults experiencing memory…

I think I have signed up with this site for quite some time but do not get the chance to check things out.

Now that I am unemployed and looking for opportunities to brew coffee out of my comfort zone, I decided to drop by here to see if I can get some advice.

Oh, any recommendations for a single head espresso machine? Looking for one with a good milk steamer, too.

Happy brewing!

Rebuild the machine other research centre thrown away

http://colinwen.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/saeco-via-venezia.html

some google translate may help.…

Brazil Serra Negra

Patrocinio, Minas Gerais

Acid: low to medium

Body: medium

Texture: mainly clean and juicy, slight nut skin in middle.

Flavor Profile: the acid profile is juicier and shows more complexity than in some of our previous brazillian offerings. Prototypical sweet orange with just enoughrind to be noticed, coffee cherry and sweet green grape are also present. Hazelnut liquor and dark chocolate follow and sink into a just slightly grainy texture. It’s…

Attended my first cupping at New Harvest. This technique is vital when it comes to being able to pick up the nuances between growing areas. I plan to attend a cupping weekly and will post my notes as I become more engaged.

We've been wanting to add a profile monitoring system like Roastlog or Cropster to our roaster. We gave both a good look at Expo last week but am still not quite sure which direction to go. There seems to be more similarities than differences.

Our primary uses would be for roast logging and profile monitoring. The cupping feature on Cropster would be useful, but it looks like Roastlog is working on that also.

Any opinions about preferences, functionality, etc. would be greatly…

Colombia Los Cauchos

San Augustino Forest, Huila region

Acid: Medium High

Body: Full

Texture: Sweetened Gingerbeer and cola

Flavor Profile: classic “Diner Coffee” profile. Slightly spicy, very sweet and texturally rooty, with big body and good balance. Almost cherry cola-like, if the cherry wasn’t too over the top. The textural body is similar to Gingerbeer without…

Kenya Muthunzuuni Peaberry

Machakos District

Acid: high

Body: medium-full

Texture: clean, root beerish

Flavor Profile: cherry jolly rancher, lemon and sweet tomato flavors in the acid. Root beer, fresh pine, cane sugar liquour and dark chocolate in the sugars. Fairly subdued coffee for so much complexity. The acid allows the…

In its January Volume, the Institute of Food Technologist featured an in-depth article titled Coffee Quality Testing. After explaining the coffee basics, the author relies on the expertise of Starbucks and Coffee Analysts to explain how and why coffee is tested.

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