Test roast 1 reveals a fairly delicate coffee, certainly free from the tea like tannins that we find unpleasant in so many african coffees (others will describe this as gamey and spicy). At this early stage we are getting pleasant…
You may have noticed by now that we did a u-turn on the roast that we decided was optimum for this coffee when it came down to it. This is a classic example of how a roast changes as it…
A few weeks ago we purchased a copy of this and didnt have all the programs closed that we should have before downloading the updates and we locked it all up and it ended rather badly with a complete reinstall…
A customer in Finland tells us we’re a bit boring; he’s probably right so we’re taking action. It’ll take more than the introduction of some new and interesting coffee beans to resolve that I hear you mutter! Anyway, we’ve got…
You will have noticed that we have updated a number of our prices 1. Olympia machines: since we started selling Olympia machines in 2008 we have consistently sold them at around cost price in order to establish a name for…
… wonderful brown sugar notes are developing in this coffee. we think we’ve nailed it & hope to realise this coffee for sale on monday, 13 december. mellow and pleasant, even first thing in the morning. a desirable tanginess in…
Top rated coffee beans: what are they? Traditionally there were a relatively small number of coffees that were considered to be top rated coffee beans, with people generally offering up Jamaican Blue Mountain, Hawaiian Kona, or some other prestigious coffee.…
We’ve umm’d and ahh’d for a couple of days over this 6th test roast. In the end we think it is too tangy so we ran a 7th test roast tonight & found ourselves in need of some inner warmth…
that’s it, this roast estbs the baseline, with its tangy notes. this is more objectionable first thing in the morning than in the evening, so we will run a 6th test roast at 1F higher, and we will have a…
…its good, but we’ve not reached rock bottom & there’s a sniff of soot lurking in the background, so in the name of science & the pursuit of excellence we’ve roasted a 5th test roast (1 Dec), another 5F lower…