My year in Coffee - March 7 Thrift shop Score!!

Look what I found at a thrift shop!

I needed to roast coffee today anyway - so it will get a trial in just a bit.

I check the various thrift shops out pretty regularly but I've not found a Poppery I before.  I was doing quite the happy dance.   

The coffee is my very last cup from my Barefoot Coffee Roasters Malacara B Yellow Reserve.  It was a great bag of beans.  I have a review partially written that I will get to posting tomorrow.  Actual work to catch up on today.  Somehow I seem to be running forever behind.  Must need more coffee!

The happy yellow cup is from Ikea, though to be honest I paid 25 cents for it at a Goodwill.  I like yellow, it's one of my favorite colors and it seemed like the best choice for celebrating our spring like weather today.  

My year in Coffee - Jan 8

Today I'm back to Costa Rica for my coffee.  This time it's a yellow honey process.    Machine A (Poppery 1) for a 5 min 50 seconds.  The time depends so much on the room temp, humidity and so on.  With this machine I usually go for between 5 and 7 min and sometimes 6 is dark, sometimes 6 min is 2nd crack.  Coffee roasting is as much of an art as a science.  Maybe that's why I enjoy it so much.

The taste was clear, bright and kind of nutty.  Darker nuts and again, lightly sweet.  I put the normal amount of cream in my daughter's coffee and she told me it was pretty sweet - bordering on too much.  I had cream in my cup, but only about a teaspoon.  I taste black (or reddish brown) in a smaller cup before I pour my drinking cup of the morning.

My Year in Coffee Jan 7

Today is a great day for drinking coffee and working on an infinity scarf.  I made one for my oldest daughter and now her friend wants one.

The coffee is from Papua New Guinea and this time I roasted it in one machine.  Machine B - West Bend Poppery II.  It's an almond colored popper.  I have a white one too that's on loan to the kid.  It's my second favorite machine.  It used to be #1 until I got the Poppery 1.  That one wins because it has an ON/OFF switch.  Why they did away with that in the second incarnation I have no idea.

Anyway, the coffee is kind of nutty with kind of a chocolaty flavor.  Lightly sweet, I wasn't able to pick out specific fruits but overall there was a delicate sweetness.  Yummy.  Mellow is a good word for this one.  I drank it black because I found I didn't care for cream in the last batch.  Each batch is different though, so who knows.  It might have paired well with cream.  

These may all look the same to other people, but I look at the grids and can tell very a lot about which day it was.