insects and Coffee

Coming right along… having some troubles with the steam boiler over filling, one of the steam valves not obeying my Restoration Commands, and a leaky connection on the brew boiler… but, the good news… ESPRESSO!

Yes. Sam and I pulled some pretty amazing shots of the Big Truck on the 2 Group Paddle Machine today.

So exciting to have it up and running, with most of the bugs worked out… still a few weeks off yet to Coffee Fest Seattle, plenty of time to finish polishing up the chrome and get it all together (still waiting on the glass side panels to show up from the glass people).

This weekend, I’m headed to SF hoping to be working at the Slow Food Nation event.

just a quick test note to test the WordPress posting APP.

here at cafe Vita, nice espresso tonight.

here for an Olympia All Ages Project meeting.

:)

At first I did not think about it much… in fact other folks too were just walking down the side walk without a care… but then I thought to take a closer look at the floating debris… and it turned out to bee ants. Lots and lots of ants. Thousands and thousands of them, in a cloud of mating joy.

Here is a close up shot >>>

Espresso Notes:

Roast date: 8-14-08
Pulled: 8-23-08 w/Triple Basket

1.25 to 1.75 oz.
28-30 seconds

Huge amounts of body, little sweetness, almost no acidity. Coco nibs, raw chocolate. Buttery.

I can see this coffee being a great base to a blend.

Yes it has been quite some time since I have posted to the insects and Coffee… and a lot of things have happened in both of these worlds…

First the Big News:

As of two and a half weeks now I no longer work for Batdorf and Bronson… I have moved across town and I now work with the folks at Espresso Parts and with Olympia Coffee Roasters.

It has been a great change for me… work is good >>> most of the past two weeks I have been working with Terry Z. and Dave Ringwood (the two leads on this project) restoring a Marzocco GS2 Paddle Machine and a Single Group GS Semi-Auto. Things are coming together quite nice with both of these Machines (we’ll have them both at the Espresso Parts Booth at Coffee Fest North West… the 2 Group will be fired up and ready to go!)

Been working the Cafe at Olympia Coffee as well, two days a week now. getting the feel for the Big Truck Espresso Blend and all that. Top Pick right now in the Cafe >>> Olympia’s Ethiopia Sidamo as SOE. Awesome! Heavy body, sweet, sweet, sweet, touch of fruit, and Coco finish… did I say Heavy? Yes!

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Finished up with the Mazzer/ROBUR MOD… (at least until tonights tweak idea…). Dave White has cut some out of a sheet of plastic with Espresso Parts <Laser Ingraver>, so clean and crisp. Actually looks like something real.

Did I say I love my new work? Well I do, great crew here at Espresso Parts.

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Other news >>>

The Carpenter Ant that I have in Captivity (that does not sound nice), rather I have homed in a NASA Space-Gel Ant Farm has 6 Eggs, 5 Larva, and 3 pupating young in Cocoons. Very exciting! I had just about given up on her laying viable eggs.