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8/21/09--The case of the questionable caffeine level! Coming Soon!
With this blog Global to Local Coffee returns to promote our
Adventure of Coffee. A new strand of the adventure is exploring
how coffee and wine relate. And likely with food like cheese as well!
And of course how does all this relate to coffee prices compared to wine prices?
All the more in this The Great Recession?!
More Soon!
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Your Guide: Specialty Coffee Micro-roaster Peter Friedland, Global to Local Coffee, Worcester Mass
About Dark Roasts, Chapter 99
January 12th, 2009
Roaster’s Rumination 1/6/09About Dark Roasts, Chapter 99
Ah Dark Roasts. You’d think there was nothing left to say, not to mention write about about this
EXTREMELY worn topic (for people like me who don’t like to Ruminate, much of which is repetition, one of the banes of my existence…)
But so more about Dark Roasts isn’t necessarily Rumination or Repetition: consider it repeatedly chewing BUT on a new cud material, or from a different MP (Mastication Procedure), if you get my drift..(!)
No, especially not when something as wondrous as Timor 467 emerging from this latest interchange. So consider this the latest twist in this roaster’s ever unfolding journeying through the depth and breadth of coffee and coffee roasting.
What’s at stake in this seeming numerical nitpicking is arriving at the Peak which is really a synthesis of, or a meeting of, two phenomena, Origin Traits and Roast Traits.
Just to tweak this further, we’re about to come into Timor from 2 different regions and harvest stages at the same time! So we’ll be able to really play with this dark roast issue much more! Stay tuned!
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Serendipitously, a coffee biz phenom has occurred with this season’s Timor crop
January 12th, 2009
1/12/09
Serendipitously, a coffee biz phenom has occurred with this season’s Timor crop in that both the early harvest (Ermera region) and the later harvest further up the mountainsides, (Maubesse region) arrived in New York at the same time!
This was due to shipping problems in Timor, not surprisingly after all the civil war level “unrest” over the past 2 years, and which has several ramifications, both Good and possibly Bad, and these may differ depending on where one is in the coffee continuum.
One Good Ramification is that we can now cup these two crops against each other rather than ending up trying one while trying to remember the other one which we forgot to hoard such that when the one ran out, we’d have enough to use to compare to the newly arrived other one.
And since we roast in both medium and “dark” (”but not too dark”!), now we have 4 coffees to compare! And just to rebut in advance the shrug of the shoulders belligerent indifference and principled ignorance “how could the same coffee be different just because it’s a few weeks younger?” or rather asserted more closed-mindedly, “The same coffee can’t be different just because it’s a few weeks younger.”, yes, our broker tells us that “There are a few differences”.
So that leads into what are those differences? And then for us coffee adventurers and coffee intellectuals/savants/connoisseurs–as distinguished from coffeestickinthemuds, or coffeecouchbeans–all those questions about WHY are they different?
Which in turn leads into a more on the ground approach to the idea of “Fair Trade” and “Relationship” Coffees, which are about respecting and helping the growers improve the quality of their lives: on the ground because farming is in many ways about the particular crop, in the particular weather conditions, in particular soils and with particular seeds and bushes and trees and how it all ends up looking, tasting and what happens to it as it makes its way into being sold in competition with other such products, in this case, coffees.
More next time! Like the Timor shipping foul up, your not so humble Blogger Dr Koffee couldn’t ’ship out’ (upload) the first part of this blog because he forgot the D’d password for the blog account, so you readers get 2 blogs in 1, kinda like what’s happening with getting both timors at the same time!(?)
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