Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Took a look at how the shop's web site is doing for sales now that that's been taking orders for more than a year. It's down from the April highs, but still like an extra day of sales per month, which is better than I feared it might be when I started working on that.

https://wilsonscoffee.com

The cat usually doesn't go for human food, but she seems intrigued by tonight's shrimp.

Searching for "coffee roasting" on https://sepiasearch.org/ my videos pretty much dominate the first three pages of results. Works as expected.

Supplier tasting notes are citric fruits, and I can bring that out in the roast and get something that smells amazing, but the flavor intensity wasn't following from those aromatics, making the whole experience there somewhat disappointing.

What I ended up doing was pushing through yellow quickly to modulate sweetness into a caramel apple expression (so completely different from the supplier's tasting notes), stretch the range after that but prior to 1C to get more of the reactants I'd want available later in the roast, then accelerate into and through first crack right to the edge of 2C to boost the body and get a really interesting cup complexity going on with chocolate, caramel, and apple notes richly textured and changing.

At the time I joked that the experience made me want to enter the competition to be the one person who wasn't afraid of 2nd crack.

The roasting plan I came up with also fits nicely in the narrative of what I found somewhat disturbing that time I judged USRC. While all profile options were on the table for this, the overall approach and final profile decision was very different from what competitors in that described, especially with their compulsory coffee which everybody roasted too light.

It took three runs through the lab roaster, but I think I've decided what I want to do with the competition coffee. I still need to do a production test batch to verify that it's what I want when brewed the way a real person might enjoy the coffee and get my final product spec details documented. If all goes well, I'll probably have 3 or 4 small batches total before I run out of coffee. I'd rather do that than roast all of it at once because this will have to be expensive and may not sell fast.

Found a baggy of voter information on my porch on the way out of the house. Wish I'd noticed they were there. They could have left mine somewhere else since I'm already a registered voter and I know where I vote. #IVote

Apparently I'm a horrible person now because I'd like customers to please stop asking my employees to break the law. As in, food safety laws. In other news, nobody has read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

I've seen Escaflowne so I know better than to trust something like that.

In other questionable email, I got spam from a psychic offering fate alteration services.

Someone pretending to be my mail admin at work just tried to phish me in Spanish. Of course, that's unlikely to succeed because I am my mail admin at work and I never send messages like that in any language.

assume a spherical cat at rest

What's wrong with the Argrathi? They have tech that lets them live decades in an artificial reality while their bodies only age a few hours and the best use they can come up with is SimJail? #DS9

The competition coffee is very obviously a high quality coffee with a lot of potential for different flavor expressions, but I think a different roast profile would give me better results.