Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

For the two coffees from Burundi, I'm using different roasting styles to make these seem more different from each other than would be the case if I picked similar roasts. In both cases there were nice possibilities through a broad range. The first one is on the lighter side of a dark roast where it develops a nice bittersweet chocolate flavor that's absent at lighter roasts of this coffee while still preserving some body and acidity.

The French Roast tastes like French Roast. This is the one that came in at 25.6/25.6 yesterday.

Lots of taste testing on my work schedule today. First up, production test batches of four new coffees: new French Roast, new Colombian, and 2 new coffees from Burundi. After that it's reworking half a dozen blend recipes to use coffees that still exist.

According to this Super Scientific™ poll, nobody has enough cat spit on them. https://social.typica.us/@neal/102466172048303295

Did a test batch for a new dark roast, ran it through the Javalytics, whole bean measurement was 25.6 on the gourmet scale. Ground coffee measurement was also 25.6. Those numbers do tend to get closer to each other the darker you roast with most roasting styles, but they're not usually exactly the same.

Do you have enough cat spit on you?

Need to buy cat food before going home today. The cat knew she had the last of the food in her bowl when I left this morning and expressed concern over the lack of additional cat food in the house.

Picard named his dog No. 1. Based on this, what should we infer about what he really thinks of Riker and Science Fair Kid?

Some pics of the inside of machine #2.

Here's how machine #2 came off the installer's van.

Left half of new machine #2 of 2, power light on. The espresso switches turn blue when they're on but the switch blocks enough of that light so it's not obnoxious.

Both machines are up and running and we're doing all drinks half price through Sunday.

Some internals

It lights up

New machine #1 of 2.