“Fidalgo Bay Coffee is a roaster of fine specialty coffees, serving a growing family of coffee houses, espresso stands, restaurants, hotels, offices and homes. They also sell commercial espresso equipment and offer repair services. Their responsive customer service and high quality coffees are the hallmarks of their business and the cornerstone of their success”.
Well, with that said I had to get my hands on some of their coffees. A post on their blog/news section indicated that they were just recieving their 2008 crop of Peruvian Café Selvanica. This …

The Best Home Coffee Roaster
A while back, I purchased a Hottop home coffee roaster for use in my roastery as a sample roaster. I had investigated quite a number of home roasters including the Iroast, Alpen, the Gene Cafe and many others. For my purposes, the Hottop was the one I picked.

Wth the Hottop being a drum roaster, and my production roaster being a drum roaster as well, the hottop seemed a good choice in creating roast profiles that I could easily transfer to my Probat L5. …

Cupping Ethiopian coffees is probably one thing that I can easily say I look forward to. Especially each summer when the new crops begin to arrive in North America, where I spend each day roasting. After a couple of bad years for Harrar crops, I was worried that when this coffee arrived, I might be disappointed again. Luckily, coffee producers in this region of Ethiopia have managed to put out a great crop this year.
These beans are dry, or naturally processed. This means that the cherries …

Ethiopian Sidamo Coffee Review
Roasted By Planet Bean Coffee - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Planet Bean is a Micro-roastery. They roast with 5 and 25 kilo probats on a roast to order basis. I recently had the opportunity to cup several of their coffees, and here is the review for their Sidamo roast:

Roast: Full City (-)
Origin: E. Sidamo - OROMIA
Grade: 4
Crop: Current (2008)

Aroma: Berry, berry, berry!!! Wonderful floral hints underneath!

Wet Fragrance (crust): Very nutty aroma in the crust, which pleasing underlying berry notes. It seems when the crust is …

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Coffee Review
Roasted By Planet Bean Coffee - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Planet Bean is a Micro-roastery. They roast with 5 and 25 kilo probats on a roast to order basis. I recently had the opportunity to cup several of their coffees, and here is the review for their yirgacheffe roast:

Roast: Full City
Origin: E. Yirgacheffe - OROMIA
Grade: 2
Crop: Current (2008)

Aroma: This roast is full of floral and citrus notes. The aroma is not too intense, and not too mellow, its actually quite perfect! There are hints of …