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coffee a-ha holiday moment

Theo — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:41:45 +0000

Christmas gifts.. a new eight cup french press, a new three cup french press. Courtney gets a fancy-pants Technivorm. Holiday get togethers. Terrible coffee in general that you have to choke down. .. A few days at Di’s with the mega-big container of C-Grade coffee (that’s old & stale C-Grade coffee). Making the best of [... click to continue reading]

Hurricane Irene, No Power & Out of Chemex Pourover Coffee Filters

Theo — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:12:30 +0000

Sitting out Hurricane Irene wasn’t so bad and with all the initial talk about a Category Two Hurricane passing right through Boston’s North Shore area .. got motivated. Cut down this dead tree out front that had these white mushroom looking things growing out of it … and so the neighbors are pleased. Drainage pipes installed etc., and of [... click to continue reading]

Rainy Day, Cup of Coffee

Theo — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:07:08 +0000

Monday … Had a good and bad sort of weekend. A little birthday thing for Di. She came over and headed about 40 min up the coast to Ogunquit, Maine. Really an awesome place with this walkway above the rocks called the Marginal Way. Here’s a link to the town if you’re interested. So it was [... click to continue reading]

Coffee Green Bean Review: Brazil Cerrado DP Fazenda Aurea from Sweet Maria’s Coffee

Theo — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:33 +0000

As coffee prices continue to skyrocket upwards we’re looking for value and quality in green coffee beans for home roasting. And we found one that’s on the radar and will become a staple to be used in blends. Here’s the deal .. we have a handful of green coffees that we use individually and as [... click to continue reading]

Coffee Storage For Green Beans And Roasted Coffee

Theo — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:26:44 +0000

Coffee as you know is one of those delicate things that can’t be consumed too fresh (typically a day after roasting .. please). But once this peak has been reached it’s all downhill from there, and it’s not a pretty thing. Your beautiful coffee becomes this flat old grouch who takes up space and [... click to continue reading]

Coffee Review: Sweet Maria’s Sumatra Grade 1 Mandheling Green Coffee Beans

Theo — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:49:56 +0000

We roasted some Sumatra Coffee from Sweet Maria’s at a few levels and found their recommendation of finishing in a range of a Full City to a Vienna to be pretty spot-on. And, in line with our previous experience with Sweet Maria’s we found their order entry and fulfillment to be totally seamless and drama-free. The cost for [... click to continue reading]

A Coffee Pairing Good Enough For Specialty Coffee

Theo — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:34:08 +0000

I was at a specialty coffee shop the other day and paid $3.00 for this cranberry scone that was just sitting in the case looking Soo Good. Settled in, nice seat by the window looking out at all the boats, sip of the coffee, then a bite of the scone. … Now you all know [... click to continue reading]

Coffee “Love The One You’re With” but “Living on Borrowed Time”

Theo — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:50:22 +0000

I recently had the chance to visit with Courtney & Chris x2 in the Washington DC area and had an absolute ball. The coffee at Courtney’s was Chemex Pourover from some home-roasted coffee beans… Somalian? I don’t think I asked. But unlike the previous trip that included a visit to the Counter Culture Coffee [... click to continue reading]

Cafe Review: Dottie’s Coffee Lounge

Theo — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:22:21 +0000

The level of coffee to be found in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts continues to improve as evidenced by a recent trip made to Dottie’s Coffee Lounge in Pittsfield MA. I happened to be there in order to help out Diane, who had this knee thing going on … And was a very pleasantly surprised to learn that there was [... click to continue reading]

Coffee Micro Roasters 2 of 2 After Roasting

Theo — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:29:06 +0000

Coffee beans just from roasting and still smoking. The beans are then agitated to maximize contact with the ambient air and to prevent the beans below from retaining heat and baking. Close up of the hot coffee beans under agitation. After packaging the cooled roasted coffee. The Agitator. The brushes to handle the chaff. Related [... click to continue reading]