Daniel's World of Coffee

Coffee Tasting All Over America

How do coffee buyers decide which coffees they will carry? They taste them. In this video you can get an inside look at this process.

We put over 60 fresh-crop lots of Ethiopian coffees, each with a different flavor profile, in front of coffee buyers all over the United States this past spring. I posted about this project in the spring, here, here, and here. This video explains the outcome.

Jeremy Explains his Non-burning Afterburner

I'm in California to teach a roasting course and host a cupping. But in the meantime here's a little video from my trip last week to Portland with Sarah Dooley. We were putting on a cupping of Ethiopian coffees for the local specialty coffee roasters. Jeremy Adams of Cellar Door Coffee Roasters was kind enough to let us use his space. After the cupping he showed us his new baby, a Diedrich IR-12 roaster. To cut down on smoke without installing an expensive and carbon-hungry afterburner, Jeremy installed this cool scrubbing system instead.

Check it out... the videos a little shaky, but if you stick around till I get my camera in the right spot, you can see the super-fine particulate mist he's talking about.

Ethiopia Cupping Thursday in Portland

I'll be hosting a cupping at Cellar Door Coffee Roasters in Southeast Portland this Thursday, May 13th.

On the table: fresh crop Ethiopian coffees, from all sides of the specialty industry in that country. Private exporters, farm owners, and smallholder farmer cooperatives. We'll do two flights of top grade coffees, and I'll be giving a short presentation on the state of the coffee industry in Ethiopia.

Thursday, May 13th, 2 pm. Cellar Door Coffee: 2001 Southeast 11th Avenue. Portland, OR.

This cupping is primarily aimed at roasters and importers. Please send me an email at danielh@bootcoffee.com if you are interested in coming.