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Anders Gulden Olstad came for a visit yesterday. He’s a big time espresso lover and coffee enthusiast and a really nice guy. We ended up roasting 5-6 batches in the popper as well as drinking way too much coffee. In the space of three hours Anders had something like 3 double cappas, two espressi and [...]

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Hey, this blend proved to be nice for cappas:
50% Monsooned Malabar
20% Brazil Cachoeira
20% Guatemala Antigua
10% Monsooned Malabar Robusta
And I even suceeded in a nice heart in the “prototype cappa”

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After a week of roasting coffee in the popper I can safely say that this is worthwhile stuff. The roast is very even and it is easy to hear the cracks and judge the color. Only negative is the small capacity and the chaff that flows everywhere.
I am reading about blending for espresso and doing [...]

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My popper finally arrived a couple of days ago. Up until now I’ve been using a borrowed Alpenrost drum roaster, so popper roasting is pretty new to me. I’ve been reading a lot about it lately so I sort of knew what to expect.
I did my first batches right away, three drip coffees, a mocha-java [...]

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Hehe, gotta love Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a recent interview he said that deciding to run for governor in california was one of the toughest decisions he had ever made, almost as hard as his decision to strip away every hair on his body with wax before a 1978 bodybuilder championship

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Blessed be the local coffee bar which carries the Ottolina Maracaibo top espresso coffee!. Since my dealer Temperato went off on vacation I’ve been using depressing and often stale beans from other bars. Today I bit the bullet and bought a pound Maracaibo top at double the price I usually pay, but it was worth [...]

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The english version of my interview with norwegian barista champ Eirik S. Johnsen has been published on coffeegeek. Check it out.

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