The Reading Room

This is the eleventh post on the coffees I’m working my way through. Up this time is PT Roaster’s Sumatra - WAHANA ESTATE - Natural.   PT’s has some cool looking bags. Valved, but kinda look like a simple brown...

From Google image search for Trifecta MB -- this does my heart proud.Sleep DeprivationAs the wee hours ticked by since my first taste of coffee on the Trifecta MB Friday evening, I could barely wait until breakfast time, when I would...

First -- fair warning. The video quality is really poor -- I was playing with new tools and I'm a coffee person, not a production person. That said, I figured I'd share my big coffee roasting oops this weekend: Friday...

Some Encouragement For you stalwart inquirers into the art of brewing the absolute best cup of coffee, and whether said holy grail is (shudder) even approachable utilizing the Bunn Trifecta MB, and furthermore whether patiently following this particular blog will eventually...

We are having relatively nice weather. I was sitting out today and was reading. Suddenly I hear a lapping noise and see my dad reach for the camera. The dog was drinking my iced coffee. I stopped him (it is...

I am a gambler at heart. I will buy something based on the name alone. I was looking over a couple of purchases that I have made on Roaste and so far (knock on wood) my impulse buys have been...

A recent blog post by broseph on Able Brewing’s new DISK Fine made me wonder. I’ve been playing with (and enjoying!) my own DISK Fine prototype for almost a week now, but I’ve reserved most of my comments about it...

Social media is what the gentlemen who broke with Intelligentsia in order to form Handsome Coffee used in order to build their brand.  They had something called the "Handsome Wager," where they'd send their roasting samples to forty folks at...

I had been wanting to pick up Jamican Craze for a while as I have been intrigued by the flavored coffee that is offered by Latitude 23.5. I am not normally a flavored coffee person, but when it's done right...

I remember a few weeks ago reading blogs about adding flavor and about coffee creamers. Yesterday I downloaded a book for my Kindle on DIY coffee creamer. I am not always a fan of creamers but this looked like fun...

Chamie asked "What's your favorite roaster up to?" recently. I don't know to be honest. I do know what I have been up to recently - roasting with a heat gun and a metal bowl. I saw this method being...

What do our favorite coffee roasters get up to when they're not firing up beans for our enjoyment? Well, if it's Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans, it could be just about anything... and it will almost always be fun. I'm...

Like most of us who enjoy espresso, I understand the importance of the grinder in the process. I have good grinders already, but there is a bit of mystque surrounding the 68mm conical burr set among the online espresso community....

Today is good indeed even though I did not get enough sleep last night (only four hours of sleep per night has become quite typical for me in the week day). What make today so good is because I woke...

A couple of days ago, I posted about the TextSpresso machine developed by the tech and coffee geeks at Zipwhip -- you remember, right? The ultra-cool coffee machine that makes an espresso when you send it a text -- and...

Back in my coffee geek days, I would get pretty doctrinaire about coffee preparation. That water's not hot enough! That grinder produces way too many fines! And so forth.But I'm still digging through a bag of pre-ground coffee--granted, not the...

I was really excited to see P.T.'s back here on Roaste, about two weeks ago and took no time to make an order with them. P.T.'s is one of those roasters that is held in high regard and so it's...

returns. I've more or less been away from coffee from the past few months, and it's nice to bring it back into my daily ritual. My first cup was stale pre-ground Starbucks Blonde in a papered Aeropress. It was delicious....

This is actually in response to two posts that I have read in the past few days one here on roaste written by Gazy and then another written by James Hoffman. They both are just talking about the prices of...

Before I continue writing about the coffee growers, please allow me to divert a little to talk about the price of coffee. A few days ago, there was a blog here, which reflected concern about the relatively high current price...