Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

For the decaf Colombian coffee, the intent was to try to get something that's a good match for the previous lot of decaf Colombian coffee. That happened. This is the motivation for having the Mexican coffee as I was going to run out of the decaf Colombian and needed some other stuff to put on the order to not get killed on the freight charges.

I tried doing a darker roast with the Mexican coffee and this came out I think a little too sweet compared with what I had in mind for that. I was hoping to bring out a classic Vienna Roast flavor profile and while this is good, it's not that.

This one is a brighter, more vibrant coffee compared with the roasts I did for the Bolivian coffee. Lighter (more medium) body, good sweetness.

Next up is the new coffee from Mexico. We used to work with a supplier who specialized in finding nice Mexican coffees as opposed to the more common cheap flavor base sort of thing that has long dominated the expectation of Mexican coffees, but I guess that was a bit too narrow a niche. Still, it's nice when the timing works out that I find something a little more interesting and have space to bring it into the product line.

I decided to also try running a dark roast of this, stretching things out a bit compared to the exploratory roast. This subdues that melon note, though a bit is still present, and that ended up coming out very smooth, still a bit sweet, very nice. It's still very obvious in comparison that these are the same coffee roasted two different ways.

It has sort of a honeydew thing going on in the aftertaste, lots of body, easy to drink. I still need to run the numbers on this but I probably need to charge somewhere around $30 per pound for that and I'll only be getting a few small batches of this out of the roaster.

Tasting production test batches of new coffees today. First up is the medium roast of a super fancy Bolivian coffee that I'll be charging a lot for and selling out of hopefully very fast. I wasn't too worried about this since on the exploratory roast I had a couple cups that were my favorites for a medium roast flavor profile that I couldn't tell much difference between. Pushed that roast a little faster and aimed for an end temperature in between those two cups.

The cat wants to lick the bleach off my hands.

Are chocolate chips a berry?

Today I learned (from reading a recipe she left me) that my eldest sister thinks chocolate chips are a berry.

One of the two coffee shipments has been delivered so I'll be sorting out how I want to roast a couple new things in that. There's another thing getting shipped in boxes and the last time I checked the tracking all 3 boxes were in the same facility, but 1 was scheduled to be delivered tomorrow and the other 2 were scheduled for the day after.

Nap time

One more cat pic

It's a cat.

A cozy cat.

The cat found a bug.

Supplier is going to try again and is blaming FedEx for apparently dumping out the original contents of the box and putting someone else's shipment inside instead.

Yesterday I got a big box (about 2x2x3 feet) that should have contained 45 pounds of cinnamon pieces. Instead it contained a bunch of air bags (packing material) and a tiny box under half a pound labeled as a shipment from an entirely different sender to not me containing some electric gadget.

Lap cat wants to be shoulder cat.

Uploaded half an hour of me talking about coffee roasting while showing how to use CRUCS to design and edit plans for profile coffee roasting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSSoy58zKV4