Maybe I should not laugh at this, but by Jaysus I did!
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Archive for April, 2009
Baisc Chemical Reactions in Roasting
25/04/2009I have some spare time over the coming weeks so I will go into more detail of what we think is happening when we roast and how we perceive some of these reactions in the cup. Let’s start with some information I learned from Carl Staub, on basic chemical reactions in roasting.
Staub says, “Many thermal/ chemical reactions occur during the roasting process, decarboxylation, dehydration of quinic acid moiety, fractionization, isomerization, polymerization, and complex sugar reactions. The principal thermally reactive components are monosaccharides and sucrose, chlorogenic acids, free amino acids and trigonelline. Both arabinose and Gollactose of polysaccharides are split off and the basic sulphur containing and hydroxyamino acids decompose. Carbohydrates both polymerize and degrade, liberating thermally unstable mono saccharides, decomposing 15 to 35% of the polysaccharides, depending on the degree of roast.”
Some meanings that I could not find links too
Hydroxyamino-acid (a protein constituent in coffee)
What does that mean to us? Well, like some of the Irish roasters that I used to work with would say, “when it’s brown, feck it out!”.
Soon I will post about sweetness and what it means to me when evaluating coffee.
In other news I am contemplating a trip up to Seattle and Portland this week, contemplating…
Deaton
Rare photo?
21/04/2009I don’t normally post photo’s of myself but this came across my way today courtesy of Paul Stack of UberBoiler fame.
In the picture is Arther Wynne of Wicked Cafe Vancouver (hope you’re enjoying west coast Intelligentsia Arther), myself and Stephen Morrissey.
We were representing Ireland in the UK v’s Ireland team barista challenge in Dublin, going head to head with non other then James Hoffman and team.
Oh and in case you are wondering, yes, James did win…
World Barista Championship 2009
16/04/2009It’s been a busy week here leading up to the SCAA and WBC as we have had a heap of Australian visitors dropping in on their way through LA.
And
Plus there will be a few others dropping by on their way back home.
Last night we had a BBQ sponsored by Intelligentsia to give the staff at our cafes the chance to meet one another.
A big special thanks to Tim Varney for sending some us some of Tim Wendelboe’s coffee; we can’t wait to get our lips around that deliciousness. With their fancypants packaging they, Tim and Tim, have once again proven that they are indeed the Tim-est of them all!
Sorry Tim Styles.
Oh yeah, I will be watching the live stream of the World Barista Championships, all weekend.
Tim Styles BlogMovie
12/04/2009Tim Styles is trying to Blog…
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INTELLI(dot)LA
03/04/2009Hey all,
So a few of us are pitching in to give new life to our old blog INLELLI(dot)LA, it was my turn to introduce myself, but to date Jared and Mike Hudson have had something to say as well.
Check it out
Deaton
Oh yeah, the ball is no longer in my court, I will let you know the outcome of my visa as soon as I know, thanks for all the support!
Visa Update
02/04/2009Well tomorrow looks like it could be the day that we sign off on our visas and submit them to the powers that be. Myself and Julia have been up to our eyes in paper work for weeks and we are ready to meet with our lawyer at 3pm to give it our seal of approval. So with red ribbons tied neatly around each of our weighty bundles of papers, we hand our fate over to the US immigration department.
So with that I have a new sense of zen knowing that we have done all that we could have done, starting almost 18 months ago. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank publicly, those who have contributed to and helped me along the way with my visa application.
Not in any particular order and if I leave a name out please, please forgive me.
Kyle Glanville
Doug Zell
Geoff Watts
Cara Miller
Chris Hallien
Benita Barnes
Karl Purdy
Andrius Valiauga
Tim Kinsella
Jo Smith
Henry Hueck
Emily Oak
Brent Fortune
Sarah Allen
Klaus Thomsen
And last but not least my good friend Mr Stephen Morrissey.
Also I would like to thank all at the roasting works and Silverlake cafe in Los Angeles in particular my roaster buddies Mr Steven Lee and Jared Linzmeire, who have put up with my mood swings, tantrums, tears and whom have carried the load when I have been away. Of course this extends to all at Intelligentsia, no matter who or where you are!
Fingers crossed will let you know the outcome in 13 business days.
