Yesterday evening after about an hour dialing in the PID's for the brew boilers pulled the first shots on our Roastery Cafe's new Linea 4AV (new as in newly rebuilt from the chasis up with dual brew PID). No brainer cuz have up to manual functionality only, Friday electronic controls and brain go back in. Somewhat surprisingly first shot was quite decent. Somewhat surprising since no dial in the grind shot on the Major, simply adjust the grinds by feel between the fingers before grinding for the shot.

Bryan's been a GREAT help since arriving from Michigan last Saturday evening. Last couple of days his primary focus inbetween helping bag roasts and general keeping my in line has been cleaning a bunch of used grinders I've sourced the past months and haven't had time to deal with. Bunn G3 ready to rock-n-roll and the 2 Majors and 3 SJ's taken apart and thoroughly cleaned ready for various needed wiring mods (defeating auto-fills etc., getting rid of a couple of those stupid timer switches for on.off swithces and converting start/on/off swithces to on/off only to use with plug in shot timers), doser sweep mod and doser snozola mods. He also got 7 or so snoz plastics cut from milk jugs yesterday.

Also yesterday got enough people together to finally get that 4' deli display cooler out of the trailer and then out of the cart it was bolted into. (Had been used at a farmer's market.) I got it rewired and re-tested, came right down to temp no problem. Since it had been mounted in a cart had no idea how the front bottom looked (customer side), as luck would have it pristine. What a steal for $300! Just need to pick up some rubber non-slips for the bottom before placing it today.

Also got the pecan stain coat on the oak pour station yesterday we'd built the day before. Really brought out the grain beautifully. Today will get the first of multiple Marine varnish coats.

The place looks like a disaster area! Took some pictures yesterday. (will post 'em later) But it's really not as bad as it looks. Just tools and parts and boxes of stuff like all kinds of porcelain everywhere. Though besides my mind I've temporarily lost all but one of the four Synesso 14g ridgeless PF baskets I got for the Roastery coffeehouse....they might still be over at Paradise Cafe....I hope....or it could be days before they get unburied from where ever they're hiding!

Lots still to do but we'll make it to open by or before NY Day, no problem!