Archive for the 'Roasting' Category

Thoughts on the last Esmeralda auction

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

According to the owner of the stoneworks auction website, I was one of up to 3000 users watching or participating in the latest auction. It went on for 9 hours and you had to feel very, very sorry for the Japanese who would have started bidding at 10pm and finished around 7am. (though [...]

The Probat Museum

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I am not going to write up the visit to Probat too much - Klaus has already done a great job at the Coffee Collective Blog.
However I think the photoset from the Probat Museum will be of interest to quite a lot of people. I’ve tried to add a little info to the pictures [...]

A trip to Probat

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I haven’t managed to get around to sorting through the photos I took whilst there with Klaus, Casper and Anette. It was one of the WBC prizes - a trip to Probat to learn more about roasting.
I will post more once I’ve sorted the photos - the museum alone is worth the trip to [...]

Finally got a GB5

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Whilst I am painfully aware that Tokyo is looming over me, today I finally managed to get hold of a GB5 (thanks to Darlingtons), though like a fool I forgot that they don’t ship to the UK with flow restricters and I didn’t order any.

So I pulled a few shots this afternoon and I now [...]

Yes, but is it tasty?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Tasty. I love that word. Its like delicious but slightly less camp. It implies, to me, more than simply tasting good - it implies moreishness and comfort, perhaps even satisfaction.
Those of you I encountered on my roadtrip, and Stephen especially, will be sick of this particular rant/”philosophy”.  I will start with food, because food is [...]

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