Merry Christmas Jerk

Merry Christmas You Jerk.

What did you give me? Nothing but some cheap plastic toys that I ate in less than five minutes and this stupid ass hat that I can't shake off. Sure laugh it up, but while you are messing around with your new espresso machine, and gorging on chocolate without giving me any, I am going to go chew on the cord for the Christmas lights.

That'll teach you to turn me into Santa's little helper: Asshole

I say young man can you let me go? Or at least give me some milk and cookies, I am all bones and beard. I am sorry I did not bring you a new hot top coffee roaster that you wanted. But times are tough. You should be happy with your new espresso machine and five pound sack of beans.

Grinch is going to a Ween concert

Just finished up doing some internet shopping this weekend.

Tis the season, right?

Bullshit. All of it was for me.

Sure, I thought about looking for some stuff for the fam and other loved ones: Scouring ebay for that perfect lame ass christmas themed sweater, taking an machete to amazon to see if perhaps I can get everyone I know a book or something (i do my best to encourage literacy).

I even (too keep this post some what relevant) contemplated buying up ten elbows of some very very expensive Organic Ethiopian Harar Biftu Genema Coffee and roasting it all up and shipping it out to some of my closest Facebook friends. This was the best fucking coffee I have had the pleasure of roasting up in the last couple months, probably one of the tastiest of the year and ironically one of the priciest. Okay, so its 8 bucks as pound tag is not so bad compared to Kona Coffee, Geshas, or any coffee that comes out of a animals butt, butl when you are looking to buy up a big sack of it, the price can be a bit hard to swallow.

But, still I was ready to do it. Ready to by a whole bunch of this kick ass coffee and roast it all up and ship it off to spread some good old fashioned mother fucking Christmas cheer yo. I was not even going to drink any myself, just ship it all off to everyone I knew, sending the message of peace on earth, goodwill and other shit while blowing away everyones taste buds with the awesomeness that was fresh roast.

Then I found out that Ween was playing in Oakland.

Since it was was already sold out, I had to pay out the ass plus a little more in the form of a convenience fee (fucking convenience fees) to get two tickets on Stub Hub. It was a bundle but its Ween you see and I had to go.

I just had too.

I did buy some coffee from Sweet Marias, but it was just a meager six pounds for personal use, the ten pound monolith was sent to the shopping cart's trash can.

Hey, quit looking at me like that. It was Ween okay, and they only tour once in a while. Besides, I probably would have ended up keeping most of the Harar for myself anyway. Go ahead call me a Grinch. But, this grinch is going to a Ween concert.

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Tanzanian Blackburn Estate AA

Today, I am drinking up the last of the Tanzanian Blackburn Estate AA that I had roasted last Wednesday and was intending to mail to a friend back and Michigan but was dissuaded by the long line at the post office. After going through the first pound of this stuff last month, I liked it so much that I decided to get myself another two LBS to add to my stash. This Tanzanian coffee is unique in the fact that it tastes just as good if not better cooled off than when it does while warm. When cooled, it has a rich nutty taste that dances around your taste buds making you feel like there is a party in your mouth. Mmm so good.

I roasted this coffee for 24 minutes, up until the beginnings of the second cracks resulting in a nice full city roast. The coffee seems to have reached its peak flavor today on its fourth day of rest, which makes me ponder whether or not I should be letting my coffees sit a little longer before I enjoy them.

I feel a little guilty about not shipping off this batch to my friend, but I will make it up to him as soon as I figure out how to print shipping labels online (the process does not seem that involved). I really need to do this before christmas time, so that I can starting spreading the yuletide cheer in the form of freshly home roasted coffee that I am planning to send to all my various family and friends around the globe. Hopefully, my little Nesco coffee roaster will survive the ordeal. The machine is not meant to raost large bacthes at a time and doing so could overheat the little guy. I am saving up for a Behmor roaster, which supposedly can roast up to a full pound of beans at a time and I hope to some day own a semi-industrial roaster that will allow me to spread my coffee love around the globe. Until then, I will just have to convert people one 5 oz batch at a time.