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Home Barista is developing a consolidated space for folks interested in buying or trading green coffee in one easy to manage location. If you are interested in distributing, acquiring, or trading green coffee, this is the thread to do so.
Since hunting down exceptional greens can be a challenge nowadays maybe heads up are in order.
here are a few recent listed lots I just ordered that should have exceptional potential for espresso and/or brewed.
SM Kenya Nyeri Ngunguru
SM Aida Batlle El Salvador Finca...
Hi,
I saw that some of the members on HB are Ikawa Home owners. Are you willing to share successful profiles (espresso) for:
Guatemala-Delicia SHB, Brazil Y. Bourbon, India Parchment, Monsooned Malabar (arabica)...or any other?
Here are two screen shots of two different roasts of a Guatemalan bean roasted on a Cormorant. They are very different roasts but both seem to have a similar defect (maybe baked but hard to say.)
Does anyone have any advice on how to improve it or things to try? I am...
Really really enjoying this Guatemalan Coban coffee as a SO espresso. Choosing it every morning of late.
If you haven't order from Hacea I suggest you try them. Especially if you roast 1lb at a time as you can just cut the bag and dump it. Also they fully support Artisan Plus.
If you happen to use the Mastech 6514 to send roasting data to Artisan, you likely use the string /dev/ttyUSB0 in the Artisan setup to link Artisan to the meter via USB; it's about the only way to do it :wink: Alas, upgrading to the latest version of Ubuntu, 22.04, breaks this....
If you do not mind I can tear down my Ikawa home 100g and share the picture for those who may be interested in this post. Since mine is not working last month and went through the email communication for almost one month period. It turns out they judge mine is...
Curious to know tips on how to access a yoshan roaster front bearing. Also, anyone have any links to replacement bearings for yoshan roasters? I have the DY-1 model.
I've always had this issue with a sagging R0R between 3 minutes & 5 minutes probably due to the fact I don't listen and am a slow learner and have been afraid to touch the fan. I've been set it and forget until yesterday, always with a leaning flame near 90 deg with a setting of...
