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Home Roasting

I know it has been a while since I have posted. I recently have been involved in a home roasting renaissance. it has been a while since I have home roasted. I just started this past quarter. I forgot how much I love roasting. I love roasting. At it’s best roasting is perfection. at its worst really frustrating. I am roasting for espresso. medium roast normale as the italians call...

Oct 30th

Sep 10th

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The is my rant on roasting and roasting Philosophy It outlines what roasting is and how coffee is roasted. We talk about sourcing and roast profiling to bring out the maximum potential the coffee has. We are taking about the individual nuances and characteristics of each coffee how they are developed from the soil elevation mineral content volcanic soil content. Universal practices and...

Sep 10th

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Episode 8 Homecho Waeno We review Organic Ethiopian Homecho Waeno Another Intelligentsia Coffee 82-83 Points

Sep 10th

Sep 9th

Hot Coffee Syrup Ratios

These Recipes are places to start you may need to adjust the ratio of ice syrup or half and half to your liking. 8 Ounce Cup 6 to 7 Ounces of Coffee 1/2 of an Ounce of Flavored Syrup Add to your liking Half and Half, Whole Milk, 2 Percent Milk, Skim Milk 12 Ounce Cup 10 or 11 Ounces of Coffee 3/4 of an Ounce Flavored Syrup Add to your liking Half and Half, Whole Milk, 2 Percent Milk,...

Aug 31st

Iced Coffee Syrup Ratios

These Recipes are places to start you may need to adjust the ratio of ice syrup or half and half to your liking. 8 Ounce Cup 6 Ounces Iced Coffee 2 Ounces Ice 3/4 Ounce of Flavored Syrup 1.5 Ounces Half and Half, Whole Milk, 2 Percent Milk, Skim Milk 12 Ounce Cup 10 Ounces Iced Coffee 2 Ounces Ice 1 Ounce Flavored Syrup 2 Ounces Half and Half, Whole Milk, 2 Percent Milk, Skim Milk 16...

Aug 31st

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Coffee Enthusiast 7.5 the added addendum to episode 7 We talk about using natural flavored syrups to flavor your coffee. We have Monin Natural Flavored syrups. We make an easy iced coffee with cold coffee vanilla and half and half.

Aug 31st

Links for episode 7 Comments

One thing I did not mention is an alternative to flavored coffees. Brew good quality coffee and a simple syrup which is reduced sugar and water in a liquid form. You can get syrups from a variety of manufactures that can easily flavor your coffee naturally in a variety of flavors. Hazelnut Vanilla Amaretto Caramel Irish Cream Raspberry are all common flavors. Brew your coffee and add 1/2 and...

Aug 30th

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Coffe Enthusiast Episode 7 We respond to our first question about flavored coffee. We talk about Grocery Store Coffee and Local Coffee Roasters that roast fresh coffee. Robert Boles fan of the show recommended Liam Finn we play one of his songs. Fresh Mango on the table is there anything better?

Aug 30th

Here are the links for the Hario Hand Mill and...

Hario Hand Mill is at Espresso Parts http://www.espressoparts.com/cgi-bin/ep.pl?pgm=co_disp&func=displ&strfnbr=71&prrfnbr=10056&sesent=0,0&search_id=325579 Coffee Klatch http://www.klatchroasting.com/Cerro_Paldo_p/cos_ric_cer_pal.htm

Aug 24th

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The Coffee Enthusiast Episode 6 Coffee Klatch Costa Rican Cerro Paldo 89 90 points Herbs Hario Coffee Mill

Aug 13th

Jul 26th

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Inteligentsia San Jose Nicaragua Amazing coffee inteligentsiacoffee.com

Jul 26th

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Compelling Interview with Ron Cortez one of Tempe Arizona’s oldest roasters Part 2 of 2

Jul 15th

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Compelling Interview with Ron Cortez one of Tempe Arizona’s oldest roasters Part 1 of 2

Jul 15th

Jul 7th

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Coffee Enthusiast Episode 3 Sumatra Gayo from Water Avenue Coffee Portland Oregon Song of the Day Lil Wayne Prostitute 2 Tasting raspberry preserves

Jul 7th

Here are the links from Episode 2

Here is the vac pot faq on coffee greek that Mark Prince put together http://www.coffeekid.com/coffee/vacpots/vacpotfaq Here is a link to avenue 18 for the Hario brewer. http://www.avenue18.ca/TEAPOT/HAR.htm Keepin in mind this is a candaian company they may import to the USA not sure it would be worth it to make an inquiry. Here is a link to sweet marias for cool cona vacpots and other...

Dec 3rd

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The coffee enthusiast episode 2 This is an episode about vacuum brewing. We have a demo of a very lovely hario vacuum brewer and some lovely blue bottle dry processed sidamo.

Dec 1st

Whats up yall

We are getting ready for numero 2 episode coming soon where we will talk about my favorite coffee brewing method are you ready hope so because we about to bring it to yall stay tuned it should be all the way live soon.

Nov 24th

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The Coffee Enthusiast Episode 1 Brazil Fina Monte Alegre

Nov 15th