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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...
The popper is light enough to put it on a scale while roasting. I'm sort-of used to roasting by colour with iRoast2, but I might try this for decaf. 4:01 long
Hey crew!
I have a homemade fluid bed roaster and I'm having some trouble with the PID. I typically do 400-500g batches and have had success manually roasting but I want to get the PID system to perform properly. For the first PID-controlled batch, I simply copied these...
With a lot of inspiration from the IKAWA Home - profiles thread I am releasing a beta version of an online tool to create and edit IKAWA profiles. It is mostly what I would have loved from the standard app to have. Open to feedback to add features to make it more useful.
I took at 10 year hiatus from roasting. Randomly got the itch again got on sweet marias a few weeks ago and got pretty nostalgic when I saw the Popper!
Has anyone been using this? Need to some tips to before I get too frustrated. If I keep my DE at 4 min I tend to roast too...
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?
All five are containing Pink Bourbon, which has nothing to do with Bourbon, as it is an Ethiopian landrace. People would say it is a mutation of Bourbon; it could not be further away from truth.
Very long blog on 2 series of DNA testing on Pink Bourbons. Both show that Pink...
