http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:36:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not being one to give up on a idea, I have been actively experimenting with storing Fresh roasted Coffee in a Food Saver Freeze and Steam Bag. I bought a couple of packs one day from  Target when there were on sale. I had a theory that the vents in ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/11/10/freeze-and-steam-mania/ So I took the taste challenge... I wanted to see if my palate could tell the difference  between Starbuck's new instant coffee (just add hot water) and stuff the has been brewed the proper way. After much contemplative mouth swishing, I correctly determined which coffee was the Folgers 2.0 and which one ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/10/08/via-challenged/ I am leaving on a jet plane.... Okay and now I am back again Why is it that the week you go on vacation ends up feeling like only a weekend? Perhaps this is a overstated sentiment, but still that is what our (the girlfriend and I) whirlwind week in Maui felt ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/09/27/maui-wowee/   Here is a batch of the Rwandan Gkongoro Nyarusiza (or however the heck you spell it) that I roasted then immediately sealed into a Foodsaver Freeze and Steam bag. I got a bunch of these bags on sale at Target a few weeks ago, They were half priced and I just ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/09/13/eureka-regularity/ I got some nice 8 oz degassing bags from the Green Coffee Buying Club  last month. Here is a a batch of Tanzanian Blackburn Estate AA resting in one after being roasted. This batch was sort of an experiment with my Behmor in which I Roasted 13 ounces on the ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/09/05/bags-of-mogiana-and-stuff/ Here is a pic that I took at a coffee shop that sits next to the Grand Lake Theater here in Oakland's Lake Merritt District. The place has a  skull theme throughout, which makes it cool in my book. It has pretty good hot dogs too. Their coffee is called ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/08/19/skull-and-beans/ Hello y'all Well, I told yah that I would get around to posting up one of my hand drawn roasting curves, so here it is. This recent one is a bit nicer than the others, since I decided to actually use a little carpenters square to make it look all prett ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/08/05/jacu-bird-coffee-is-the-sht/ I found this comic in a used bookstore (walden pond bookstore in Oakland) the other day and decided that a guy like me just had to have this. I haven't read it it, just kind of thumbed through it to get the general gist. The writer is not quite as ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/07/27/pissing-folgers/ Last year, as you regulars might recall, I could not stop yammering about how much I liked a certain coffee from Tanzania called the Tanzanian Blackburn Estate AA. I still find myself yacking about it and I have been hanging on to the last remnants of a five pound bag that ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/07/19/tb-pb/ Last weekend, during the Fourth of July,the girlfriend and I decided to go on a little camping trip up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, kind of by Truckee. I also saw this as a great opportunity to try out my newly purchased toy from Sweet Maria's: the Clever coffee dripper ... http://homecoffeeroasters.today.com/2009/07/12/clever-campfire-coffee/