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First test roast seems to be very close to target. We’ll try it over the next few days and make up our minds what tweaks are required. Makes a very nice espresso & cappuccino.

Well today we finally took delivery of a Mypressi, a handheld espresso maker As you would expect, you can find them online here; mypressi Have only opened the box and the most striking thing is the size and weight It…

In our enthusiasm we’ve roasted this a little too light. We’ve eliminated the sooty notes, but replaced them with some grassy notes, which you dont need reminding are equally undesirable. The next sample roast we’ll set somewhere between the two,…

We’ve umm’d & arh’d a lot this week over this roast, having worked our way through numerous iterations. We’re pretty close now to having the espresso edition agreed, we think it just needs to go a fraction or two darker.…

Bodum Antigua grinder We’ve used a couple of the Bodum Antigua grinders to death in the past. The quality is variable, with some seeming to fail after 12 months, but the two units we had just kept on going for…

a curious discovery this morning – i found the Java Semeru robusta makes a really good cup of filter coffee through the Swissgold filter. All we have to do now is get out to the roastery and perform some more…

We’re quite surprised with how easily the oil comes to the surface of the bean. We want to roast another test sample and try roasting this bean significantly less and see what it tastes like.

We want to try roasting the Daterra Monte Cristo fractionally darker to see if we can dampen the acidity slightly and round out the taste to give more balance and fullness

We’ve roasted a test roast of the Java Semeru robusta, and hope to get a chance to run it through the espresso machine during a break in the festivities tomorrow. In fact we’ll probably schedule it early in the day…

We’ve been working on roasting the newly received Daterra Monte Cristo. Call us heretics, but we are pleased to tell you that it is still shipped in a conventional, environmentally friendly, jute bag. This is significant as a great number…