We decided to go with $1200 as the total amount to write on the check and someone else chipped in a personal check for another $50 that will get mailed along with that. #HappyBrewYear
The key here was stretching out time while the coffee was yellow to push the sweetness then blast through time between cracks fast to preserve acidity, ending right at the start of 2nd crack to bring the body up. Quite happy with how this turned out.
Starting the day by tasting production test batches of new decaf coffees. Starting out with an Ethiopian coffee. This is the one that I was least confident in as rather than finding exactly what I wanted in my initial exploratory testing, I found some different things that I liked and needed to design a new roasting plan to try to get all of that in the cup at the same time. Worked out well. Good balance of body and acidity, citric and melon flavors.
retail work
This is the time of year that I'm especially grateful for having spent the time writing Typica. It's so much faster (and more accurate) to sanity check quantities from a report pulled from the database than to estimate quantities of partial sacks of green coffee, match up stock with the right invoice in a filing cabinet, and multiply all of that out by hand.
Also, someone snuck in an online order for Holiday Blend. I'll be pulling that off the site probably tomorrow, so if anybody else wants to get in on my last batch of this year's Holiday Blend, now's the time to place that order.
There's not as much distinction in the colors as would normally be the case because decaf coffees start out brown.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.