I am drinking coffee
Jun. 6th, 2022 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeedaivNot a big deal. Right.
I am drinking coffee I roasted myself.
Again, if we have met, no big deal.
I am drinking coffee I roasted myself in my brand new Popper.
Now we are getting somewhere.
You see, several weeks ago, my roaster ... died. Just flat out stopped working. Which, having been of use for many many years, is tragic but not unreasonable. So, a new roaster was shopped for, while I made do with coffee that other folks have roasted (Seattle Coffee Works (a high 2 / low 1 most of the time) and Stumptown (a mid to high three).
How I rate coffee. 1 to 5, on a pyramid shaped graph. My own roast, in my own home, with my own french press, is generally the pinnacle of this system. It gets bonus points since I don't have to put on pants to make it happen (leaving aside I don't actually wear pants). A low five? Peets, for a start. I have had it many times, and it tends to make me sick. It is SO dark, so over roasted, so acidic, that I literally horf after drinking it (I drink black drip, or black espresso, when I am ordering coffee, unless it is a special occasion (one does not go to Dilatante for coffee; they are a mocha bar, and it is a shame to deny oneself of their chocolate (when i was working at the airport, I invented the Triple X Mocha; Extra Large, Extra Dark (chocolate), Extra Shot (of esspresso)))). This rating system is Entirely and Gleefully subjective. No coffee I am served by anyone in their home is less than a 2. Unless it is my oldest brother who once had Peets, and kept the beans in the freezer...
That should be a cut tag, but I don't know how to do that, so I will leave this here and someone will tell me.
I ordered the Popper (https://www.sweetmarias.com/popper.html) from Sweet Marias. A bit more expensive than the "buy a popcorn air popper" method, but not much. Largely because it is, in fact, a somewhat modified air popper. It has timer and heat and fan controls, and many many years of many many many coffee geeks using it. It is, in a nutshell, the Linux of coffee roasters. I bought a digital scale for use with it, and (after running the "do this first" roast, per instructions) I roasted my first batch yesterday.
And now I am drinking it. And it is, indeed ... it's a 1. Maybe not as high of a 1 as it is possible to be. I have much to learn. I am looking forward to it.
Oh, and. The Popper says it comes with four pounds of assorted green beans. They sent 5 pounds of green beans. I am not complaining at all.
I am drinking coffee I roasted myself.
Again, if we have met, no big deal.
I am drinking coffee I roasted myself in my brand new Popper.
Now we are getting somewhere.
You see, several weeks ago, my roaster ... died. Just flat out stopped working. Which, having been of use for many many years, is tragic but not unreasonable. So, a new roaster was shopped for, while I made do with coffee that other folks have roasted (Seattle Coffee Works (a high 2 / low 1 most of the time) and Stumptown (a mid to high three).
How I rate coffee. 1 to 5, on a pyramid shaped graph. My own roast, in my own home, with my own french press, is generally the pinnacle of this system. It gets bonus points since I don't have to put on pants to make it happen (leaving aside I don't actually wear pants). A low five? Peets, for a start. I have had it many times, and it tends to make me sick. It is SO dark, so over roasted, so acidic, that I literally horf after drinking it (I drink black drip, or black espresso, when I am ordering coffee, unless it is a special occasion (one does not go to Dilatante for coffee; they are a mocha bar, and it is a shame to deny oneself of their chocolate (when i was working at the airport, I invented the Triple X Mocha; Extra Large, Extra Dark (chocolate), Extra Shot (of esspresso)))). This rating system is Entirely and Gleefully subjective. No coffee I am served by anyone in their home is less than a 2. Unless it is my oldest brother who once had Peets, and kept the beans in the freezer...
That should be a cut tag, but I don't know how to do that, so I will leave this here and someone will tell me.
I ordered the Popper (https://www.sweetmarias.com/popper.html) from Sweet Marias. A bit more expensive than the "buy a popcorn air popper" method, but not much. Largely because it is, in fact, a somewhat modified air popper. It has timer and heat and fan controls, and many many years of many many many coffee geeks using it. It is, in a nutshell, the Linux of coffee roasters. I bought a digital scale for use with it, and (after running the "do this first" roast, per instructions) I roasted my first batch yesterday.
And now I am drinking it. And it is, indeed ... it's a 1. Maybe not as high of a 1 as it is possible to be. I have much to learn. I am looking forward to it.
Oh, and. The Popper says it comes with four pounds of assorted green beans. They sent 5 pounds of green beans. I am not complaining at all.
