The Morning Coffee
I continue to have great fun roasting coffee beans – mad, wild experiments in SCIENCE!
The beans I did before my most recent batches were Sumatran. All the Sumatran beans I’ve ever had have always been done with a dark roast.…
Thank you!
I ran a Goodreads giveaway this past week for Poisoned Pearls, in anticipation of the sequel, Tainted Waters.
I wanted to thank everyone who signed up, who put the book on their “To Be Read” list, who’ve read the book and have done reviews.…
The Three Day Roast
No, I’m not actually roasting coffee beans for three days.
However, some beans take longer to reach their full potential.
When last we met with our intrepid explorer, she’d roasted some Columbian beans that were good. Even by the third day, though, they were still just merely good.…
The Morning Coffee
Yesterday, I roasted a fresh batch of coffee beans. This morning I had my first cup from those beans.
One of the lovely things that I’ve discovered from roasting my own beans is that generally, they smell different when they’re whole, in the canister, from when they’re ground.…
Experiments with roasting
As I mentioned in my previous post, I got a coffee bean roaster for Christmas and have been having mad, wild science experiments with coffee beans ever since.
My roaster came with five pounds of green beans. I got two pounds of what they describe as “starter beans.”…
General Updatedness
I’m not working on a novel right now. Instead, I’m writing a short story a week (sometimes two) for an upcoming workshop. It’s been a lot of fun, lots of different characters and ideas. Possibly the start of a couple of series characters (if I can convince my butterfly brain to write about the same people in the same world!)…