Coffee. That is how it is spelled. Not cooffee. It is never spelled cooffee. The first time I attempted to spell it incorrectly here at got out some correcting ribbon, whited it out, and carefully typed it again. Just want to ensure for all of you that I do know how to spell that word. Coffee. I drink it daily. Almost all the time. Not every day, like doing Duolingo, which is now up to 858 consecutive days of Spanish practice. I will skip coffee every once in some time. I could not tell you when the last coffee-less day was but I am sure there were some days when I did not have any. I also do not remember the last time I bought some coffee to brew. The brown beans or ground bits. It was some 15 years ago when I started roasting coffee. We had been to Bali for, among other things, my wife’s birthday. She brought back some green beans and roasted them on the back porch in a hot air popper. I got curious. I got irritated with roasting quarter pounds of coffee. Well, that came after I was modifying my air poppers. And buying green beans by mail. And learning about roasting and how it was not all about making deep oily roasts and making a lighter roast and well a lot of experimentation. I have been through a bunch of, well just a couple. Except for the fire in one. Had to replace that roaster. I still have the original roaster that was built to roast a pound of coffee at a time, a Behmor. And then one that did a half-pound at a time, but with greater control over the airflow and heat, a HotTop. I have upgraded it a couple of times also. Both of them cost what seemed like an insane amount of money. I think the Behmor was $400 or so. I bought the HotTop used. I do not recall how much it cost but it was probably $750? something like that. Gosh, that seems like a lot of money. One could get a metal bowl and a hot air gun and roast as much as you would like. Or a big heavy pan, like a cast iron pan, and roast coffee there. But I do not do that. A roaster is kinda like a bicycle or a guitar or a ukulele there are bunches of prices and people have their reasons for paying a, well what seems like, a lot of money. But once you start knowing about how to do and why you do something it all seems if not cheap at least reasonable. So I roast my coffee. It is fresh. It is like I like it or something different so I can see what coffee tastes like when roasted ta in that way, I try different things to see how it will taste. But damn it is good really good so I do not much around with the coffee, I just roast it and we drink it and we are both very happy with the way it tastes. There is a lot to learn about roasting, but I have coffee so I do not muck around with it like I said earlier. So I seem to be rambling around and around the subject without saying much about coffee. So I will quit. Except for one thing. If you are curious about coffee order some from my place taste theirs. No, don’t taste it, enjoy it. Because if you like coffee, well theirs is one of the best.
And today will I forget to name them? No: of Oakland it is Sweet Maria’s,
—- MichaelRpdx