We have three E61 Rocket Plus V2 espresso machines complete with:

Mini Mazzer

1kg coffee

58mm tamp

6 ceramic cups

steaming jug

espresso machine cleaner

2 hour Barista Fundamentals lesson at our roastery.

All for $ 3800 incl GST pick up

We stopped first to have a look at the mill, where two workers were pulping the coffee. Natural & washed coffees were drying on the patios & some specially selected lots were drying on the African beds.

We then drove up the road to the farm. Whereas Erwin’s farm was pretty dry with mostly pine trees, this farm was much greener, with rainforest along the edges of the farm. We had {very luckily} with us a coffee farmer called Pedro who was our interpreter. He was amazed by the farm, the coffee shrubs & the soil – he thought it was perfect and kept passing around handfulls of the stuff.

El Sauce has placed in a few Cup of Excellence competitions & it was not hard to see why. The farm was very lush, the coffee shrubs all looked very green & healthy, they had a big peach tree, many avocado trees & a big patch of tomatoes that Pedro liked the look of.

The next day was the first of three days of full-on roasting training at IHCAFE’s Le Fe agricultural training centre. We had two, 2 barrel sample roasters, a 1kg roaster & a couple of lab assistants available to us.

We had buckets of fresh crop coffees to roast – different varieties, altitudes & regions. From our theory lessons we had ample time to discuss what we planned to do with the coffees, then roast, cup & discuss how we could roast better, and to discuss what went wrong and what went right.