Posts from the ‘Home Roasting’ Category
I have a secret stash of COE coffees and special micro lots that I have been saving for a later time. Well, this week I thought it was time to finally break into that stash and get some of those coffees roasted up. My first pick out of the box was this Brazil COE Fazenda [...]
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I was very surprised to find that I have not already gone over my thoughts of Flores Green Dragon. Seriously? This is one of my favorite offerings that I have. It is one of those coffees that surprises you every time with such amazing notes. Each batch I’ve has been different, but just slightly. I’ve [...]
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I cannot believe how long it has been since I’ve done a home roast. Well, I am not here to disappoint. I am back in full coffee roasting force and I’ve got a Nicaragua Nueva Segovia from Sweet Maria’s that I roasted up to review here. This coffee, Nicaragua Nueva Segovia is said to be [...]
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Introducing a new adventure… Roasting with blends. Roasting with blends will be a new installment to The Coffee Adventures. I’m bringing you good or bad my blend concoctions and my thoughts. First up, The Odd Couple You may have heard me talk about The Odd Couple quite a bit on Twitter. Well, now you can [...]
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I’ve been slowly getting back into my roasting schedule, but with this cold front that Florida has been kindly given it’s kind of hard to roast in the cold. Last week, I roasted up some Nicaragua coffee to a nice Medium roast. I let it rest for 4 days before I opened the bag. This [...]
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My Behmor has been fixed and is going strong. I am still not sure the exact cause of the fan issue, but at least I have it working again. I couldn’t wait to get back to roasting so I started my first roast with Panama Elida. Either I was a little rusty from the few [...]
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The first time I had Bali Blue Moon was from Buddy Brew Coffee. I don’t know what about this coffee that struck me. Maybe it was the name or the notes that they described in the coffee, but it was a coffee I wanted to enjoy again. I decided that I wanted to find some [...]
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Debbie Ring from Kona Cloud Coffee sent me an email the other day wondering if I would like to roast up some Hawaiian Kona Peaberry. I couldn’t pass up roasting up some Kona so I agreed. I haven’t roasted any rare coffee myself for the fear of messing it up. Well, fear caught up to [...]
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I haven’t had any Guatemala Antigua that I can recall so this was a nice first. What drew me to this particular crop was the word “chocolate bomb” that was in the description. That was it. There was nothing else I needed to read. The coffee was ordered, and I was anxious to get this [...]
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I bought this coffee more on a whim, and didn’t read to much about it. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this coffee. After roasting to the beginning of the 2nd crack, I began cooling the coffee. I then waited a couple days to rest before tasting. I was actually excited to try the [...]
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