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Delicious old coffee
One of the first things I picked up when I became seriously dedicated to coffee is how important freshness is. For a while I was studying roast dates on bags of beans that I was buying, sorting through...
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Roasting for Hombres: Bars for Beans
Costa Rica, Perla Negra, Las Lajas beans, airmailed to us ahead of the shipmentA year ago I roasted some samples of Costa Rican beans for Erik Rauws (http://www.anemoicoffee.com) of Tres Hombres, a...
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Alarms to actively help with your roasting
During the roast described in the previous blog entry I noticed that the beans heated up slower than I expected and as I was also chatting with a visitor, it took me a while to realise I had the drum...
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Good Coffee: Let it Breathe
I added this as PS to the recent "Delicious Old Coffee" blog entry:Yesterday, Jan van der Weel told me that the Italian owner of a cafe in De Pijp here in Amsterdam purposely keeps his beans in open...
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Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster: Jan's technical story
(Adding the following contribution by Jan van der Weel to http://kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.nl/2016/08/tiny-cheap-fluid-bed-roaster-by-tije.html)Hardware and electronic design(copied / merged from...
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Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster: Tije's construction
(Adding the following contribution by Tije de Jong to the main blog about this roaster)We asked Tije to make us a sketch of the construction he built for this roaster to assist anyone who would like to...
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Roasting Ethiopia, Oromia, Nefas Farm
The FZ-94 ready to get roastingRoasting a new stock of beans on a new roaster is exciting because one needs to get 'the feel' for the machine and at the same time find out what could be the best...
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Espresso on vacation
I know, vacation can be awful, the very word can give one the shivers. But remember, even vacation can be pleasant if you just bring along a basic coffee set. Then, waking up in a strange place can be...
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Tweaking a PID for La Pavoni
"On the road" set for coffeeBeing on a holiday trip is a great time to work with smaller equipment and to take a closer look at the configuration. Spending the day with these machines saves you much...
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Batch 17 spot on, finally
After weeks of experimentation which was documented in the previous blog about roasting beans from the Ethiopia Oromia Nefas farm, I have at last found what I think is the optimal profile for 1.25kg of...
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TinyTonino in Town
There's a new and very nifty Tonino device to measure the roast color of your cofee. It is small enough to fit inside a standard portafilter basket and it works wirelessly using its internbal battery...
View ArticleTiny Fluid Bed Roaster, an update
An update after the earlier blog:Today, Jan updated the Arduino software, also trying out a new Artisan setup that supports a "background roast" using the Artisan PID to follow a pre-designed roast...
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FZ-94 warmup, profile design and roasting Guatemala Las Delicias
It's not easy to estimate the amount of energy inside the warmed up Coffee-Tech FZ-94 machine so sometimes after charging the load of beans, the Turning Point is later or sooner than expected, at a...
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ConTeXt meeting 2016 in Kalenberg
http://meeting.contextgarden.netHans HagenBasic and vital requirement: espresso travel setSunrise at KalenbergTaco Hoekwater & Hans Hagen on 'koeienletterOT' open-type font designaudienceTaco...
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More about the PIDded La Pavoni
(also see the earlier blog about tweaking the PID and the original full blog about all installation details)At the 2016 ConTeXt meeting in Kalenberg there is enough time to study the behaviour of the...
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Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster: Artisan background roast test
This will be added to the original blog entry. Text and screen snapshots by Jan van der Weel.Yesterday we tested the “background roast” feature of the free Artisan software, with Artisan activating and...
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Probat factory collection and tour
One of the best experiences during my visit to Probat & Emmerich this week was visiting their museum collection and factory tour. The very early roasting machines, many hundreds of antique...
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Jochen, an avid collector of coffee machines, sailed to Amsterdam on his fast Pogo 10.50 "Avanti" sailing boat and once there, he visited Tije's workshop to finish a project he has worked on recently,...
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Visiting Van Gülpen, Germany's oldest coffee roastery
Hosts, participants and the assisting team of the 2016 German Coffee Roaster Championship all shared a pizza at the Van Gülpen roastery in Emmerich, invited there by Lutz Reinhardt-van Gülpen who is...
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Roast Color Measurement at the German 2016 SCAE roastmaster championship
Every selected roasted batch at this week's German SCAE Röstmeisterschaft was weighed and then measured for roast color, using precise digital scales, a Compak E8 "red speed" grinder at finest setting,...
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