An exploration of ultracoffee, radiation safety, and more often than not a beer or two.
Alright, I have decided that sufficient testing has been done for survival of flavor in shipment. I have put BBotE available up on the store in the 1000ml size only. Though preliminary shipping tests show that the 750ml and 375ml sizes survive without bursting their lids, the locking bail top of the 1000ml bottle gives …
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To celebrate the nuptials of Jessica Johnson and Royal Hebert, joining together in a configuration no Transformer can defeat, I will be bringing a truly obscene amount of BBotE and a few extra steins. People of Portland…now is the time for your handoff!
Behold the 1L, 750ml, and 375ml bottles in all their labeled glory! Many thanks to the artist, Erin Hall, who created the erupting Mt. Caffeination and did the much more arduous template design to make things fit on the different bottle sizes. It is important for a man to be able to admit the things …
For the week of April 1st, I chose to revisit an old favorite that had met with good reviews, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. Previous iterations of Yirgacheffe BBotE had been described as pleasantly earthy with peanut overtones, but this time came out different. In fact, there was a strong gender based difference in opinion on the flavor …
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I was going to try to recreate the post I made on 4/7/10 before communist fifth columnists who hate freedom destroyed it, but under the conditions of exceptional insobriety courtesy of the nice people at the St. George Distillery that’s not going to happen. They have just held a release party for the Firelit coffee …
Following a three week countertop exposure of Kona BBotE at room temperature in sealed bottles, the verdict is in: Black Blood of the Earth can survive shipping without prohibitive cold packaging. I did testing with both air in the headspace of the bottle and with carbon dioxide. A future test with nitrogen may need to …
Coffee Science is a forever advancing field. Like other disciplines, it comes in fits and starts, though this could be due to caffeine. Even more important is the role of happenstance in the advancement in the body of human knowledge; the headscratching declaration of “Huh, well, that wasn’t supposed to happen.” This last Sunday, I …