Capt Insano Emeritis
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SpaceX? WTH is that? He works for Elon? Did not know Musk owned coffee interests… looking SpaceX up… I like to know stuff.
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Capt Insano Emeritis
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Okay that was interesting…
Wayne Kohan
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How about “it’ll blow your doors off.”
My SIL works for SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. He works on Starship which I find very cool, very interesting.
NOW, no more thread drift. Back to coffee. I'm grinding Indonesia Java Preanger beans (roasted four days ago) fro breakfast. I like to sparge the ground beans with 204F water, let them swell, off gas and get wet before I begin the pourover. (or is it pour over?)
I keep some of the alleged medium roast Sbux via packs around. Some in the camp kit and some in the cupboard. At home I mostly use them for iced coffee drinks, especially for guests. You can dissolve it straight into milk/cream, add sugar, serve over ice and you’ve got a coffee drink that most people usually like.
Anyway, I bet the SpaceX instant coffee could be used similarly.
My ice cream-making buddy (not a bad buddy to have) uses the Via stuff in his coffee ice cream.
Anyway, I bet the SpaceX instant coffee could be used similarly.
My ice cream-making buddy (not a bad buddy to have) uses the Via stuff in his coffee ice cream.
wanderingrichard
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Goddess forgive me, I've been drinking Maxwell House drip for the last month while I'm staying with relatives. I miss my grind and brew.
mtskibum16
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Just picked up some green from a local roaster. They don't get descriptive with the specifics, but I grabbed 10 lbs Columbia, 5 lbs Costa Rica, and 5 lbs Ethiopia.
Had some good batches with a variety of Columbians from my last online order so thought I'd buy enough to play with and figure out how we like it. Never overly exciting but can make a good well balanced cup of coffee. My favorite were pretty light roasts where I got a nice juicy/citrusy brightness.
I've been absentee on here. Anyone have any cool new roasters commercial or DIY? I'm still chugging along with my bread maker, heat gun, and data logger setup. Have to be somewhere around 500 lbs roasted at this point.
Had some good batches with a variety of Columbians from my last online order so thought I'd buy enough to play with and figure out how we like it. Never overly exciting but can make a good well balanced cup of coffee. My favorite were pretty light roasts where I got a nice juicy/citrusy brightness.
I've been absentee on here. Anyone have any cool new roasters commercial or DIY? I'm still chugging along with my bread maker, heat gun, and data logger setup. Have to be somewhere around 500 lbs roasted at this point.
I upgraded from the heat gun and metal bowl to a Fresh Roast SR800 with the extension tube around the turn of the year, and it has been reeeeeal nice.
What do you pay per pound for green coffee from the mystery local roaster?
mtskibum16
Life of the Party
Nice! What kind of batch size can you do? I'm always somewhat interested in upgrading or building something. Hard to justify much cost when my setup seems to work pretty well. But you never know what you're missing without trying something new I suppose.
Well, they used to sell at $4.50/lb for everything they stocked. Went yesterday expecting the same and got rung up at $6.80/lb. Their old pricing was double the green for roasted coffee. Now green was increased 52% and roasted only 22%. Seems odd. Roaster is Ootopia in Bremerton. At that price I'll likely stick to online where I get more choices. Still not bad for a local pickup.
Most of the time I do the max recommended capacity, which is 8 of the little scoops they give you, and it ends up being about half a pound of green beans.
$4.50/lb is a great price but even at the recent markup it's nice to know you can go grab some solid green beans if you're in a pinch and that's not a terrible price. Sweet Maria's and Bodhi Leaf have also gone up in the last year or two.
Wayne Kohan
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I've been trending to using lighter roasts lately. I just finished a bag of light roast Ethiopian beans from a local roaster. Interestingly I started the bag after I returned from a short out of town trip where I drank only Starbucks. (My wife really likes their chai tea lattes.) I use a Chemex and the coffee was wonderful. As I ran out, I went over to another roaster and got a very light roast of Ethiopian. He suggested I try making iced coffee with it. I did that this morning and it is wonderful!. I have never been a big fan of iced coffee except after exercise but this stuff is good. And the best part is that this roaster is moving to about 15 minutes closer to me. Coffee life is good right now.
Have y'all coffee roasters heard of Mercon Coffee Corp.? "Netherlands-based global coffee bean supplier Mercon Coffee Corp. on Dec. 7 filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to seek a sale of its assets, wind down its operations and pursue a liquidation plan, according to court filings. The debtor in court papers reported less than $11.8 million in cash on hand and $363.3 million in funded debt obligations, including $7.5 million owed to Starbucks."
Here is where I found the questionable information: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...1&cvid=8a1cf911d8c24f7e8bb0a9ed19924adc&ei=81
Here is where I found the questionable information: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...1&cvid=8a1cf911d8c24f7e8bb0a9ed19924adc&ei=81
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I’ve been working my way through this thread since listening to Matt and Nick talk about this on the way back from tuna fishing. I’ll drink just about anything, including the Folgers that comes in teabags, but I’m intrigued now. My only concern is that the same thing will happen as when I traded the three buck chuck for Walla Walla’s best.
It probably won’t cost as much as that switch if you roast your own. Some of the devices can get pricey but they are optional, and last a long time. Buying the good stuff from commercial roasters will set you back.
I just put in an order for 10lbs of green beans at $7-8/lb. As others have noticed, the days of $5/lb green coffee are gone. But even drip coffee sells for $4+ a cup at shops. I’m curious about the espresso blends in this order. Sweet Maria’s puts together some unique flavors. 
Ok, so what’s a good first purchase of beans for someone too lazy to do his own research? I already have a heat gun, a bowl, and a stick.
Calling @troutpocket, @Matt B, @Nick Clayton, @mtskibum16 ..........
I've been ordering green beans from morecoffee.com for maybe five years now. Most recently I've been roasting and really enjoying their Brazil Oberon Ayabas. Me and my heat gun and a light city roast. You mention "stick", my stick is a large bamboo spoon as a stick just does not stir well enough. My roasting bowl (stainless steel) rests on 1X12 board in a cardboard box. The boards are pretty scorched after all these roasts, that bowl gets hot.
I LOVE the smell of the roast and how the aroma changes as the beans darken during the roast. Enjoy!!
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Central American coffees are a good starting point. Lots of good, classic flavors available from Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and others. If you decide you enjoy roasting you’ll naturally want to do some research and try some different stuff. Different brewing styles, different coffees, different roasts.