Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Wish I had better quality copies of some of these images.

as opposed to normal email that doesn't have any computers involved at all.

Eating dinner with Dad's cat.

bonus cat

Daily #cat visit.

This is the cat I'm visiting after work until my parents decide to come home. She prefers to stay in her own home rather than just move in with someone.

Construction #cat wants to build a shelf.

#cat

Opened the new cupping spoon I was given at Expo. I like the detail with the flame.

This notion of maximizing differences among samples (while keeping the sample preparation the same) applies to every possible variable. Grind is often too coarse.

The importer sent a roasted sample of one of the Ethiopian coffees along with the green coffee. My standard for sample roasts is a little darker, exhibits fuller expansion. My aim with that is to maximize perceptible differences among coffees while not masking defects. This is not to be confused with making the coffee taste as delicious as possible, which comes later in the product development process.

#coffee cupping setup.

lap #cat

That's an odd thing to see.

Should have looked at the other half of this before roasting it. Will pick out the defects before roasting the rest of this.

Loaded a new roll of paper in the batch tag printer at the roaster.

He did it for the vine.

He also died young, probably from doing this so often.

Each bag weighs approximately 60Kg (132Lb).

Lavender flavored lattes are weird, excessively obscure the espresso, not sufficiently purple.

I should probably do a hand sort before roasting the other half of that to at least pull out the pods. Want to taste this before roasting the rest of that. #coffee #roasting

#cat close up.