I've been at work now for about 31 hours straight. No home brew. So, why not give the local roaster another-nother-nother try? I mean, there's a beautiful Dedrich roaster just inside the door with a dozen giant half-bags of greens laying against the wall...
The stroll up to the counter is immediately disheartening. I ask if there are any single origins available, and the guy says, "you mean variatels"? I say, "yeah," to his, "oh, people 'round here don't want that. This blend is variatels, but just several of them together." (Glad we cleared that up.) So with the black coffee choices of House Roast, Dark Roast, French Vanilla, and Hazlenut, I go for the House Roast. I pay the $1.82 and stroll back out the door. *sip* and my first thought was, "this is interesting." And then it occurred to me that this coffee is vanilla, irish creme, cinnimon, toffee, licorice, christmas spice, hazlenut flavored House Roast. Basically it tastes like the last 15 random pots of coffee they poured into the carafe. I'm cheap, but I only sipped 3 times and tossed it. Stupid me for not just going to the sub-par but reliable Dunkin Donuts. I have absoluely no idea how business like this exist. It's been this way for years. In fact, it's worse because they used to throw in a (bad tasting) "Kenya" or a "Sumatra" in the mix. Nada. Looking at the big bags of greens, the only bags not facing the wall were a Product of Brazil... the bottom of Brazil's exporting barrel from 3 harvests ago? Who knows.
CHAD
Don't put the cart before the horse. Put the horse in the cart and listen to him say "weeeee" all the way down the hill.
Seems like we never learn do we Chad? There's a local place here in Springfield, MO that people just rave about. I asked a friend of mine what blend he usually gets and he said "The French Roast". I stopped in there one day and the roaster wouldn't even tell me what The French Roast was, just acted like anyone should know what French Roast was. it was $3.95 a cup so I just left it with him. I just came on home and brewed up some home roasted Guat.
Bottom of the barrel Brazil is always a bad sign. Sounds like a roaster who is just after a buck instead of selling coffee. Roasters like this are so common, and this was the main reason I started roasting for myself. Long work hours for me mean that I will bring coffee with me to brew there. Maybe I have just become to much of a coffee snob, but it is just hard for me to justify paying someone for poorly roasted and brewed bitter coffee.
Lynn
"Some days it's spice, other days it's bitter dirt."
Hey, Lynn, it's great to hear from you. And you thought you were busy with finals week...
This shop will sell their greens for $12/lb, the same price as roasted. I haven't bought any. They probably could've included a pound with my $1.82 cup of coffee and still made a nickel.
CHAD
Don't put the cart before the horse. Put the horse in the cart and listen to him say "weeeee" all the way down the hill.
DANG!!! $12/pound!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really think highly of themselves don't they. That is what my coffee sells for and it ain't cheap to begin with.
I have been rather crazily running around all summer. Work, work more. Then a bit more work just for fun. 12+ hour shifts are quite draining. But I am setting aside time now every other day to pop on here and make sure you aren't making to much trouble! LOL.
Lynn
"Some days it's spice, other days it's bitter dirt."
Trouble [bats eyelashes]? Mois? Surely you jest! I'm just trying to burn up my house with a new roaster, but money limits me like technology limited DaVinci. Then there's that problem of unequal distribution of grey matter...
Anywho... laugh often, drink coffee, work hard, save some money, give away some money, and spend the rest. (Don't tell anyone my secret.)
CHAD
Don't put the cart before the horse. Put the horse in the cart and listen to him say "weeeee" all the way down the hill.
The next pay period you work all those extra hours, buy a camera. Then the next day you have more than 12 hours off, take a nice picture of that 200+ stash for me. I imagine about 19 different gianormeous bags chucked full of beans and about 30 others with a few pounds in them!
CHAD
Don't put the cart before the horse. Put the horse in the cart and listen to him say "weeeee" all the way down the hill.
Actually I only have a couple 20 lb bags and they are probably only half full now. The rest are in the five to ten pound range. I offer a really wide variety of coffees, because some customers are hard to please. It's fairly simple though once you know what people tend to like.
Lynn
"Some days it's spice, other days it's bitter dirt."
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I can attest to folks being out and about. Me and Julie were out hitting the garden centers for loading flower pots all day. Nice weather! Tomorrow the Kamado/egg gets fired up!
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Jack, it is quiet today, I think the lovely day has folks out and about.
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