Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

For the medium roast (4°F hotter than start of 2nd crack for end temperature), I really stretched time while the coffee is yellow to push the sweetness and the result is that even just smelling the brewed coffee you might think someone added honey to it. The rate of temperature change consistently and slightly increases throughout the roast and the result is nicely balanced.

The dark roast uses a traditional S curve, often a good place to start for dark roasts as it hits the balance of producing flavors that only develop at darker roasts without completely destroying the pleasant flavors developed earlier in the roast. Especially as the coffee cools it's a medium-heavy bodied coffee with good sweetness and clove spice. A bit of smokiness on the first sip that diminishes as the coffee cools.

To use as an example in the book, I took the latest coffee from Sulawesi which so impressed me during the initial exploratory roast and developed roasting plans not only for the dark roast version that I intend to sell, but also a medium and light roast version so I could write about the process from those different perspectives with the same coffee.

Roasted some coffee for a book example today. The coffee behaved as I intended in the roaster. Tomorrow I'll get to taste the coffees and see if the flavors match expectations.

Today's tasting is so good. Very clear progression from floral to caramel to resinous to spicy to smoky aromatics, bimodal sweetness curve, really nice coffee for training.

12 grams, 4 roasts, 1 coffee

Draft acknowledgements

Lots of words on paper today.

Alternate shot #coffee

Coffee

Punk the cat says *loud meow*

I have produced onion rings.

(I'm a huge fan of editing)

Put lots of revision related ink on paper today during the waiting portions of other tasks. Will need to transcribe or otherwise act on those notes after dinner. This will not be the last round of editing before I'm happy with sending this off for technical review.

Thought of the day: vertical shooter played on a Tetris board. Falling blocks follow your character left and right, shoot to rotate, pieces become deadly when they reach the bottom so the play area effectively shrinks until you clear out lines.

Fresh batch of chai concentrate is in the ice bath. Needed to make more to cover a wholesale order. One of these days I should really build some kind of giant chai concentrate making machine. I suspect I could mostly just repurpose beer brewing equipment.

One of my employees just answered a robocall where the entirety of the pre-recorded message was, "Congratulations." I think I've gotten that one before, but I always hang up before finding out that there isn't more.