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I just arrived in Kerala India for a stay of several months. I am looking for green coffee but all I see for sale is for weight loss, antioxidants, and other medical claims while I need it for mental health. Even on Amazon I have a hard time discerning when all the flavor notes...
When I first started roasting I had grassy/hay tasting coffee on occasion until I further developed my understanding of the process. I never cared for those tastes and associated them with a very underdeveloped roast or a roast that blew through the Maillard phase. Recently,...
Typically I'll order two blends from a roaster. e.g. 5# of one blend and 1# of another. Invariably I order a small quantity of the coffee I prefer. I haven't had Olympia yet and am about to order from them. Question = do I order the larger quantity of Big Truck or Little Buddy?...
After buying it from the roaster, I immediately froze a 250g bag of coffee. So, I did not open it at all and it was fully airtight, so it could not get contamination by other potential freezer smells.
When I opened it after a few weeks in the freezer, I was not impressed...
Hi I'm more of a passive person on the site for the past 12 years or so and have been reading more lately since time is aplenty during the Covid shutdown.
First some background, my wife and I lived in Zurich, Switzerland for several years in the '90s and used to travel to Como...
I was caught short - didn't order fast enough so stuck with junk beans and 2 in the mail that I won't get until Fri or Sat. Junk beans hit trash (I really did try. twice...) and I hit a larger WholeFoods hoping... Found this roasted June 13, so 9 days old. Just got home and...
There has been a good amount of talk about Black and White Roasters on the What is wow'ing you? mega-thread so I thought I would give them a try. Big thanks to IMAWriter for bringing this to everyone's attention over on that thread.
I have just recently moved to EU (Czech Republic). I am completely new to the scene.
My previous two favorite coffees were Nicaragua Los Pinos and Ethiopia Worka Wuri, both by Ukrainian boutique roaster Mad Heads.
The roasts were both quite light, 'scandinavian style' light....
