Monthly Archives: June, 2010
santa guadalupe pacamara
last Wednesday I roasted the 26 samples from the Nicaragua cup of excellence, then spent 3 hours on Thursday cupping them all.
there were some stand out, sweet, juicy, ripe coffees in the line up. it was the cup of excellence with the most presidential awards (coffee scoring 90+ points out of 100).
the auction was thursday [...]
new {old} roaster is finished
our new {old} Petroncini is finally ready, there were a few trying moments, two bolts that took a few minutes to take apart, took two hours to get back together, we also had a box of miscellaneous parts that we had to guess where they went……
this has been quite a long time coming, [...]
fazenda irarema yellow bourbon
We have been using coffee from Ipanema Coffees for a few years now, so when we were in Brasil last year judging in the 2009 Cup of Excellence, they invited us to spend some time with Marcio {head cupper} and Edgard, who set up a table of some special lots, this was one [...]
