My god...where to start. A lot has happened during my 2 (or so) month long blogger hiatus. I think I remember them in correct order.
First, We had a barista jam. A pretty good one I think. We were lucky enough to have David Latourell from Clover, who we all love, out for a Clover demo and a night of drunken revelry. We were also lucky enough to have some amazing coffees sent in by some of our favorite roasters to run through the Clover. Lots of Bolivian COE #1 (some from Victrola, some from Paradise), a small amount of some Brasilian COE from Miguel at Paradise, Ecafe Natural Yirg from Paradise, some mind blowing Mercanta European Lot Harrar from Victrola, and a slew of others, (Great Northern, some of our coffees, some Counter Culture). We ran batches through the roaster, let everyone play on the Synesso, drank an ungodly amount of Clover coffee, stared at a vacuum pot, and snuck cigarettes out back. At the end, I kinda felt like I was on drugs, tasty drugs at least. I think if we bought a Clover, I'd be in the ground within a month.

The last few months have been strange. I feel a little like I've been in limbo. I've been, I wouldn't say uninterested in coffee, but definitely stagnate. We've gotten in some great coffees, almost finished our espresso blend, and have had some wholesale business. But things have, overall, seemed kind of slow lately. We're doing a bunch of renovations in a week or so, which will be a really nice change of scenery. And we're getting in some new coffees in soon which will be REALLY nice. It's suprising how boring it can get to roast the same five coffees everyday. I'm not sure what we're getting yet, I'll make a post of it when we get them. Also, a big "roasting secrets" post is still in the works. I'm going to really try to post at least once a week from here on out. I'm sure that won't be the first time say that though. We have some new stuff going on our site too, thanks to Josh. It's still very much under construction, but should be in decent shape soon. More to come....