I'm part owner and roaster at a little coffee company in Wisconsin. Author of Typica, a popular free program used to capture and work with coffee roasting production records that's used at roasting companies all over the world. Volunteer on the Roasters Guild education committee. Available for paid coffee consulting, training, open source software development. Living with a cat who broke into my house and decided to stay. Likes: cute, travel, food. Dislikes: blinking lights.
Got one of those "I want to buy your house" things in the mail. This one stands out for actually having a number on it (a little over twice what I paid for it which I assume they'd want to chip down after looking it over) but I'm not particularly interested in looking for a place to move to or dealing with the hassle of moving or helping to build up the stock of investment housing.
Tasting production test batches of new coffees today. Before any new lot goes out for sale I sit down with a cup and make sure it's delicious. Sometimes what's very good on the cupping table doesn't translate very well to how any normal person would drink coffee so it's good to have that final check of trying the coffee prepared in the manner most customers are likely to experience it.
Coming with that is more Colombian coffee. Price on that was set before coffee prices went crazy so I should be able to charge on the lower end for that. Unfortunately, I don't have much where I've similarly locked in good prices contractually so most upcoming orders are likely to remain somewhat scary.
The Costa Rican coffee that I had on contract isn't in the country yet but there's other lots of the same mark and this has been very consistent year over year so I'm not worried about trading a couple bags with a different customer whose coffee has arrived. Depending on sales I might run out before the new coffee is ready, but it'll be close. At least the usual online customers have all gotten their orders in recently.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.