Posted Fri Sep 19, 2008, 7:59am Subject: Re: Atlanta Area and North Georgia GeekTogether - Summer 2008 Edition
In addition to the gourmet food that we always have at the home of brokencup, we now have another special treat: the fine folks at Counter Culture Coffee will be conducting a coffee cupping for us. Come early to be a part of this.
hylndr11 Senior Member Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 3 Location: ATL Expertise: I like coffee
Posted Fri Sep 19, 2008, 2:24pm Subject: Re: Atlanta Area and North Georgia GeekTogether - Summer 2008 Edition
kinda new to the whole scene and .....finding out that I didnt know what good coffee was has been somewhat of a revelation, .......looking for some places to find some real espresso etc... also try some diff cups.. thanks
Posted Sun Sep 21, 2008, 6:09pm Subject: Re: Atlanta Area and North Georgia GeekTogether - Summer 2008 Edition
17 adults and 3 kids! One person drove two hours and another an hour and a half to join us. A very fine turnout for nice breezy early fall afternoon. The food was plentiful and delicious, of course.
David Lamont of Counter Culture Coffee led us through the steps of a cupping using three CCC coffees and three home-roasted coffees. Two of the three CCC coffees were from the same farm in El Salvador, but with different prep. The first was the usual wet-processed variety. The second involved letting the cherries go past full ripeness to the point of drying on the trees before harvesting. They are then "hulled." These beans from this microlot were termed "pasa" -- which in this context means "raisin." To me the flavor was much more complex and intense, and it had a bit of a rustic finish.
Two of the three home-roasted coffees were the same Nicaragua beans, but roasted with different profiles in WesT's split-wired popper. For the second of these two roasts, WesT turned down the fan speed to see if he could get some of the tastes of a drum roast. I like the original one at first, but as they cooled I thought the second [low fan speed] coffee became much more interesting and flavorful.
The third home-roast was the notorious India Anohki Liberica. Whoa! That was pretty unique: "blueberry barnyard" seemed to be the common experience. Blueberries at the beginning and, well, the finish was quite different. The glorious positive notes of blueberry were almost canceled out by the finish, but not entirely. Several people went back to taste it more than once. One fellow, a serious geek who shall remain anonymous, really liked it...wanted to take some home. ?! ;^)
There were two roasting demonstrations. One was with a seriously modified BreadMachine and TurboOven. The other was with Thomzilla's new Behmor. It was certainly a nice roasting appliance, but it is definitely not plug-and-play. We could tell by Thom's fiddling with it throughout the roast that each bean type would have to be "dialed in." We only had time for once through, so we could not see the whole process, but it looked like it could be done quite easily.
The other demo involved some El Salvador Peaberry in my latest and greatest highly-modified BreadMachine/TurboOven incarnation. I thought it went great, but most of the others had already gone inside for the next event. :(
Which was: the espresso lessons and some latte art. CCC's Espresso Tuscano blend was remarkably smooth, nutty and chocolate-y. It's easy to gone on and on about the latte art, but suffice it to say that there were lots of Oooh's and Aaah's.
Thanks to brokencup and his wife, Libby, for hosting another fine meeting. And special thanks to his daughter, Debbie, for the fine, fine food.
hylndr11 Senior Member Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 3 Location: ATL Expertise: I like coffee
Posted Mon Sep 22, 2008, 10:23am Subject: Re: Atlanta Area and North Georgia GeekTogether - Summer 2008 Edition
dang.....due to my "unique" work schedule I ended up having to miss this event.....I have so been trying to learn what real espresso is and how to get it going.....Verde, is there any other way for me to get some lessons in ATL ...I heard about the counter culture thing on friday....do they do that every fri??? thanks
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