Victrola Coffee Roasters
Auction This!
Thanks to Jodi's expert bidding skills and our friends at Solberg & Hansen in Oslo and Barefoot Coffee Roasters in California we won one of our favorite Colombia Cup of Excellence coffees, La Esperanza #1 this morning at auction! Participating in these auctions is fun AND nervewracking! Fun when your...
Faux Ding Dong
Hiroki Inoue is a genuis. He bakes some of Seattle's most incredible desserts out of his charming shop in the Greenlake neighborhood right across the street from Eva restaurant. His most recent creation is a grown up verision of the classic ding dong. He calls them chocolate & chiffon Lamingtons....
23 Coffees
There is no better way to end a long and interesting week than with a massive cupping of some of the worlds finest coffees. By the end of Friday afternoon, Jodi, Chad, Daniel, April, Chris and I were high & happy from sniffing, slurping and (very little) spitting of the...
Sample Roasting
While V2 is under construction, the mother-in-law cottage behind our house has become the "sample roasting shack". The kitchen shelves and drawers are filled with green bean samples and our lovely 100g Probat sample roaster stands proud on the counter. Chris is the master of the sample roaster and the...