Coffee Tao

Used the machine for its first roast today.  How’d it go, you ask?  Terribly, ha ha…turns out our gas pressure is too low, so the flame kept going out.  I tested it with a pound of Brazil Cerrado–almost got something manageable, but the third time the burners lost their flame, I couldn’t relight it for […]

So what’s going on with the roastery?
Glad you asked. After a week’s sprint of laying gas and electrical line, we worked out the kinks, hooked it up, flipped the switch, and we’ve got flame!:

If you’ve never worked in a roastery, let me tell you they take a long time to set up. […]

New York coffeeshop Roasting Plant Coffee Company is pioneering an interesting design for the sale and delivery of their coffee–by turning the entire store into a coffee machine. Dubbed the “Javabot”, in truth it seems to be really just the various aspects of a typical roasting plant and retail shop joined together by pneumatic […]

[I haven’t gone anywhere…for some reason WordPress keeps eating my posts. Going to try to tackle this technical issue but if it seems like there’s a recent posting drought that’s why. -a]
The UK paper The Guardian ran a story today about a “50 GBP cup of espresso” (about $80), served at the Peter […]