Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Once I've created the images, put those in place, and gotten through at least a couple rounds of editing I'll be contacting the people who agreed to do technical review for the print book and find out if they're willing to take a look at this one as well.

It's a somewhat opinionated guide to roasted coffee product development. Five chapters. Starts with having a plan for your product line, moves to sample roasting and cupping practices (sourcing coffees that align with your plan), then figuring out how to roast those coffees, a chapter on blending, and ending on finished product quality testing.

I have an ebook draft done. It needs all of its figures and photos, editing, layout, and technical review, but the draft is done. Very much hoping I can get that slammed out by the end of the month, but it could take longer.

My father made the local newspaper's list of notable people who died in 2019.

Why doesn't the princess just wait for Bowser to go out on his bridge, jump on the axe and save herself? We all know she's capable of it.

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 decaf Sumatra turned out to be quite a bit closer in overall flavor profile to my regular Sumatra. There's a hint of apricot in there.

No surprises on the decaf Brazil.

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.

Quality time with the cat

In the 4 hours the shop was open today, we raised $991.72 for the food bank. The check we write will be larger because we always get some people who couldn't make the event chipping in a little extra and the shop will also put a little extra in.

Full shop for today's fundraiser. Every January 1 for the past 25 years we open for limited hours and donate drink sales to charity. This year that's going to Racine County Food Bank.

Roast level testing on the new decaf Sumatra gets super sweet on the 2nd sip.

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.

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Happy Inventory Day!