Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

A while back I wrote some articles about this, but it's probably time for someone to write a new book on practical coffee evaluation methods. If nobody beats me to it I might get around to that after the roasting book. https://typica.us/cupping/2016/10/04/centerlining-in-cupping-a-follow-up.html

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.

I only got shipping notifications on 1 box of tea, but two boxes arrived today with 50 pounds of tea (5x10#).

How does Konpaku Youmu even work? #touhou

Don't fax me. I cancelled the line.

@cwebber@octodon.social Have you tried banana pizza? Pre-bake a thin crust, use honey for the sauce, banana slices, dusting of cinnamon, put it back in the oven just long enough to get hot.

Browser interface broke when I tried out the new 2.4.0rc1 (mobile apps still worked perfectly). Failed to figure out the problem so I decided to try redoing the upgrade targeting master instead of the release tag and that appears to have gone flawlessly.

Sorry for any inconvenience users on this instance may have experienced.

@yomimono I've just recently become aware of PeerTube and it does seem to check all the boxes in terms of things that I was concerned about when considering self-hosting. The videos only bring in ~$100/yr so losing that isn't that big a concern if it's me opting out of that vs. them just screwing people over. There would be some work to do removing music that I'm only licensed to use on YouTube (not that I think anybody would even notice) but it might be worth it to not have to care about YT.

Was about to roast one of the coffee samples that arrived recently and discovered that the coffee in the bag was already roasted. That cuts down the number of batches I need to run. Not used to getting roasted samples.

Last night I had a dream in which I was checking into a hotel and then got on the elevator, but the elevator was a large, dimly lit, but furnished room and pushing the button for the floor that I wanted to go to made the walls move horizontally. At this point I remembered that I'd already had that dream, that it wasn't all that great the first time around, and I could just wake up and skip the rest of it. So I did.

Could actually be a practical solution to some of the problems with roasting companies with multiple production facilities.

Random thought: federated social #coffee roasting?

lap #cat

924 followers on birdsite but I'm getting more interaction in the fediverse. Yes, this was a good idea.

Recently someone bought my darkest roast and wanted to know what I added to it to make it shiny.

One of my (paying) side projects is going well. So far the client is pretty much just letting me do what I want, which means I get to work on new stuff that nobody has yet. That's always fun.

There will be at least a little splash over into Typica as a result of this project.

Another project that I'm not very involved in yet will require a new Typica release as well. All of the code for that one will end up MIT licensed but I still need to keep it to myself for now.