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.

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here at cafe Vita, nice espresso tonight.

here for an Olympia All Ages Project meeting.

:)

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.

that’s all I had to say. sweet, heavy, cherry, chocolate, bright and
wonder-full.

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A long drive to Portland last night, down… back to Oly almost as I reached the bridge, just as I was smelling the Espresso that I would have the folks from Albina Press make for me (forgot something, one of the reasons for going to PDX in the first place… Ok, so we forgot the Cello we were dropping off with the Tour Van, Mira’s crew would not have been happy at all, for a band without their instruments in no band at all). …and then back to PDX again.

Alas, woke this morning a few blocks from Extracto and got an Espresso from them (they were top on my list for this morning). Currently serving Del Sol (Vita’s Blend), looking to start roasting there own soon: it was nice, no complaints, it was like Chocolate-Cherry Water. Sweet, delicate, lighter bodied than I prefer, but no complaints, served right about an ounce in volume.

I hope I did not come across as rude for my lack of excitement to the news of them having Vita’s Del Sol, until now it has never been so good. Could be most of Vita’s Espressos have been served to me at restaurants, and we all know how that can go.

…and back to Oly again.