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Bought some local roaster's light roast to compare against mine. Wow, it has almost no flavor. Maybe I'm onto something...
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We're not sitting on our laurels. Got some fun stuff to come.
Seems pretty common for people to dropship coffee. I do not do that. I spent a long time buying and roasting beans from a local trader until I got the flavor I wanted. I personally bag and label everything. When you get coffee, it's straight from me.
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I've been trying lots of other coffees for espresso. Gotta say, my stuff absolutely competes.
I'm still alive! I've started roasting a bit just to make sure I haven't lost my touch, and I certainly haven't. Definitely still doing this.
Quick update: once the labels are done, I'll be opening the site to orders, but that's not going to be very soon. There's a very specific person I want to work with on this and for a passion project like this, I don't believe in replacing people like cogs in a machine.
Brewed some Ko-Bold today. Almost got a perfect shot (I'll post a vid on it eventually) and boy that is a DEEP flavor, definitely lives up to its name. I think I can roast it a bit darker next time, though.
Interestingly enough, Happy Orca Medium tastes best when you slightly "overextract" the espresso. Normally you'd go for a 30 second extraction, 36 grams out. I went for 35 seconds and 32 grams out. It smells as if it might be a sour shot, but it ends up being very earthy and bold
Beans have been sent out to the sponsors, boy do I ever hope they like them.
Great news! I've got the sponsor roasts sealed and packaged. The padded envelopes are just barely big enough, and I got to use an impact heat sealer for the first time. They're very slick, just one second to seal the bag, no need to preheat anything. It's like magic.
Roasted 4 pounds today. Ko-Bold on the right, Happy Orca Medium on the left.
Yeah, if I'm gonna roast, it'll have to be Saturday. way too cold this week.
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I was initially going to do a proper esign contract and everything, but a) it's expensive and tedious, b) you can form a binding agreement with checkboxes and a google form. You don't need a signature in blood for that, there are plenty of implicit contracts.
Heat sealer and coffee bags should be coming in Thursday. I'm still trying to figure out where I should source some bubble envelopes, so I might look around to local stores for that. It's still EXTREMELY cold, far too cold to roast. This weekend's looking good though!