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Longer reads about coffee, from seed to cup: pricing, processing, fermentation, roasting and the ideas that help make sense of the cup.
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One Month with the Kaleido M2-C: Twenty Roasts Later
A month and twenty roasts with the Kaleido M2-C, from early Artisan adventures to more consistent, drinkable coffee.
Closing the Gene Cafe Chapter
After 215 roasts, heater replacements and a lot of added instrumentation, I am closing the Gene Cafe roasting chapter and carrying the lessons into…
How Coffee Gets Its Price, From the Farm Gate to the C Market and Specialty Coffee
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE · ECONOMICS How Coffee Gets Its Price, From the Farm Gate to the C Market and Specialty Coffee Coffee pricing confused me…
Coffee Roasting Thermodynamics – A Beginner’s Attempt to Understand What Is Actually Happening
Coffee roasting thermodynamics: a beginner’s attempt to understand heat While researching the move from my Gene Café CBR-301 to the Kaleido M2, I kept…
Coffee Fermentation Isn’t Good Microbes vs Bad Microbes
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE · MICROBES & FERMENTATION A better way to understand coffee fermentation is as a changing ecosystem. When I first started trying to…
From Seed to Cup – How Coffee Is Shaped
UNDERSTANDING COFFEE / FRUIT & SEED What is a coffee bean? Before coffee is green, roasted, ground or brewed, it is a seed growing…