Today is a good day for online sales. New orders coming in while I'm roasting to fill the ones I already have. Keep em coming.
One of my customers is moving to Thailand for a few years and wants to know where he should buy coffee in Bangkok. I've mostly used Pattaya as a home base while there so I'm not really up on the scene, but I don't expect he'll have too much trouble finding a good place. Any recommendations for me to pass along here?
Anyway, this one is going to be labelled Decaf French Roast and it's consistent with that. I considered the Peruvian for this role as well, but the Brazil holds up better at my darkest roasts.
For those wondering about the difference between the two decaf processes, MWP is using the expired SWP patents and both have developed slightly different variations as trade secrets (the main difference from a sensory standpoint is that they're running at different temperatures and the resulting chemistry is discernible if you know what you're tasting for). One is done in Canada, the other is done in Mexico, but they're basically the same that just need to be differentiated because trademarks.
Next up is a test of one of two roasts that I'm going to be doing with a Mountain Water Process Decaf Brazil. With this coffee I'm leaning toward doing dark and darker and it's the latter that I'm tasting today. This is intended to be good on its own for people who enjoy a very dark roast, but it's also useful to have this available for the couple decaf blends I make here.
During product development, this consistently tasted as if I had roasted it about 10F° hotter than I did, which was interesting when I started comparing my cupping notes to my roasting records. I wanted a medium roast flavor profile, but this peculiarity massively compressed the range I had to work with there. This one has a little less body than I usually get out of a Peruvian coffee but a lot more sweetness.
Trying production test batches of some of the new coffees that arrived recently. First up is a Swiss Water Process Decaf Peru that's Fair Trade Certified and was organic until I touched it (not because I'm doing anything that would sensibly make the coffee not organic but because Congress botched the law around how that works and I refuse to support something that's equivalent to a mob protection racket in the US.
covid
My mother has an appointment to get vaccinated. I'll have a bit of a wait because on the one hand the federal government considers my work essential for national security and the state also considers me to be an essential worker, but not so essential to get me protected earlier. (It's okay, I can wait)
I feel a little bit sorry for my Qiqi. Every time I'm about to max out her weapon I end up swapping it out and starting over. Started with The Flute, got it to level 85 max refinement before getting Primordial Jade Cutter and switching to that. Now that weapon is up at level 89 and I'll be passing that on to Keqing (who I expect to pull after work tonight) and starting over on Aquila Favonia which I got failing to get Keqing on the permanent banner so I could save my pity guarantee for Hu Tao.
Went into work pretty much only to make the decision to shut down early for the day. Too much snow, not enough sales, and the road construction people went insane yesterday setting up barrels and closing side streets 6 weeks before they're even scheduled to start prep work (my alder has yelled at the mayor's office to get to the bottom of that mess).
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