Cold brew is my favorite base for iced coffee. Toddy brewed overnight makes a stiff brew that needs to be diluted, rather than fully diluting it you can leave it at 3/4 strength and add ice.
It is breezy and 68 in Volcan tonight. Lots of really great coffees to cup and there will be coffee blossoms by weeks end.
Rose, the only place I know that has weather like that is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. other than that, not too much wind.
Minnesota will be cold!
JBM is a solid coffee, however for the prices you pay for JBM you can try some amazing coffees for half the price. If you like espresso, look for natural Ethiopians. A few nice sidamos or Nat. Yirgs will sing in a press pot or in an espresso machine.
Miel coffees from central america...
It was an improvement. Older central American coffees in the blend, a bit of woodiness and not a really sparkling acidity. Less roasty but a bit ashy in the finish. I suspect it has a fair amount of catimor which makes me think HG Costa Rican play a role in the blend. It will be interesting...
I agree, clover won't replace the big brewers, however it gives SBUX an edge against the fast-food coffee competition AND it removes a tool from the most progressive shops, thus lessening the distance between the avant garde and SBUX. There were many compelling reasons to own the company...
The IR heating system is best thought of as gentle and even, that said if you adjust the airflow and/or reduce the energy input too much you can easily fall behind your desired profile. The response time of the IR system does not allow you to catch up. The most common roast defect with a...
SBUX is well on its way to getting back on track, they bought the company that builds Clover and took it out of the hands of the industry leaders who were leaving SBUX in the dust with made to order coffee. Re-introduced the old logo, getting back to grinding in house, stamping roasted dates on...
Renegade does not use Joper as a base anymore. They are built from the ground up in San Diego. Great machines, not for beginners. You'll drive yourself nuts trying to roast for the first time on one of these.
U.S. Roasters Corp. is another nice machine made in the US with US parts. Dan is...
The site is nice in terms of presentation.
A few comments and questions:
Good copy, well done and informative without going too far. Often times you either see too much copy or not enough, it is rare to see a balance.
How will you handle customers ordering more than 5 pounds as I see your...
Uhhhh, wasn't Starbucks around at the beginning of the specialty movement? They were trained by Al Peet and despite their insane growth they are deeply rooted in specialty coffee. Erna, the grand dame and person behind the term "specialty coffee" used to sell them beans. They were among her...
Probat's US plant is in Memphis, you can't get much closer to home in terms of parts and factory trained service techs.
They have a used equipment department that may have something nice, or there are a lot of L5's and L12's on the market. An L12 can roast between 8 and 24 pounds with ease.
More Chavismo from Hugo!
Seems Chavez has been covertly paying FARC to the tune of several hundred million in an effort to offset the US funding 600 million a year and now he has gotten his hand caught in the cookie jar after all of the digital trails were found in a computer snatched from...
Most of the time the people you are currently working with to bring in your coffee are more than happy to make this happen for you. Just getting out to the farms takes planning and contacts. We often set up our clients with our exporters who can take them to the regions and/or specific farms...
We have a Fetco Extractor in the office. It makes fantastic coffee and has been trouble free since we installed it three years ago. We brew quite a bit of coffee, not quite cafe volumes but in a day we'll run 6 to 8 airpots and we use the water spout for heavy volume cupping days.
Cirqua...
All of those things add to the the COGS and not to your expenses.
Supplies would be things like paper towels, toilet paper, mops, dish soap and all of the other things that are not going into the construction of the product you are selling.