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as this is my first real post (after matt tagged me), i thought i’d do a very quick post on something completely unrelated to RSS. so, here it is…my first experience with coffee roasting…

about a year ago I commuted with someone at Yahoo! who roasted his own coffee beans. while i’m an addict, i thought this guy was crazy. but then one day, he brought over a little baggie filled with some beans from costa rica…they were amazing. of course, i still thought he was a bit nuts…

fast forward 12 months and I discovered that some close friends in Berkeley had started to roast their own beans as well. After two or three lbs of “pushed” beans i was hooked. so, for my 3?th birthday last week, i got a coffee roaster - the iRoast2.

while, the iRoast2 doesn’t handle enough beans (4-5 oz at a time), it’s pretty amazing. the coffee is far superior to peets, sbux, whatever. the flavors are subtle / nuanced. it’s become my version of wine collecting / tasting.

for more information about roasting, machines, beans, etc go to Sweet Maria’s

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