Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

December 29 2007

Sneaky Time

It's early in the morning. I call this my sneaky time because it's just me, the cats, some tunes, and the first cup of coffee of the morning.

The music this morning is Patty Griffin, who recently received a well deserved Grammy nomination in the Americana category (which sure seems rockish-folkish to me). The coffee of the day is Nicaragua Matagalpa - Pacamara Peaberry, a wonderful bean that expands so much during roasting that I use 15% less, by weight, when I brew. It also seems to get stuck in my grinder, making me very glad I have removed the finger guard from my Rocky, and very careful about making sure that the power to it is off when I stick my mitts in it to get it going again.

Who knew that the simple act of drinking good coffee could be fraught with danger?

If the sun ever comes up again, you'll find me roasting in the garage today. Work has been so busy, and I am so tired by the time I get home, that I have taken to roasting just once a week. I do two roasts in a row, with the first one a bean that I like without much rest and the second a bean that comes into its own after three or four days sitting in its mason jar home.

A couple of friends have asked for coffee this week, so I may be doing some extra roasting. Actually, they didn't come right out and ask for it. After all, these are good friends and they know that roasting in my garage at -25 C/ -13 F is not the dancing in the grass activity that characterizes the act of turning green beans brown in the summer. They are also Canadian, and Canadians hint, but they do not ask.

It's cold enough that my friend Scott will not be receiving homeroast as a gift next week. He came out of the closet ( in his Macleans blog, no less) as a coffee hater recently. Normally, I would take that as a personal challenge and bombard him with vacuum packed bundles of various beans, but that will have to wait until spring.

On second thought, I may roast up a bit and send it to his mum, dad, and sister Jenny with strict instructions not so share it with the beastly boy. Gag, my ass.

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#1 29 December 2007 - 08:50

It seems to me that coffee is a love-hate relationship, from one cup of coffee to the next. This morning, I had a bad cup of coffee that I carried with me on the first lap in the park. By the time we finished our walk, we ended up at a restaurant not known for good coffee, and the first cup there was really awful. However. The next pot brewed must have used some of Jack's magic beans, because there was a chorus of refill requests all around, and it was the best cup of coffee I've had in a month, I swear.

Keeps me coming back for more.

InMyLife

#2 29 December 2007 - 17:21

>> It's cold enough that my friend Scott will not be receiving homeroast as a
>> gift next week. He came out of the closet

Scott isn’t going to be very happy when he finds out that nice caffeine he likes in his Coke is 'Pure straight in your vein' type coffee. All those nice crystals of caffeine they use in all those other products are you guessed it COFFEE. Usually it isn't even good quality coffee but the very poor quality coffee that ends up in Taster’s Choice decaf.

Treshell Jones OMD

Anonymous

#3 29 December 2007 - 17:54

LOL. Treshell. I'm thinking Scott doesn't much care where they get the caffeine as long as he likes the taste. My avatar, btw, is a caffeine molecule.