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I pulled an espresso on my Robot consisting of a washed Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, a natural Brazil, and a little bit of a natural Robusta from India. It was pretty good, I think I'll lean a bit more on the Yirg next time.
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I roasted three coffees on Monday the 11th from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Peru. The coffees from Africa were naturally processed and the coffee from Peru is a washed coffee. This morning I used up the last of the three coffees that I roasted on April 7th, using a few grams of the freshly roasted coffees from Africa to brew my pot this morning.
I've been enjoying blending my coffee origins together lately, depending on how these coffees turn out I may brew them as single origin or continue to blend them together. I've also cut back on my coffee consumption, down to about 200 ml of coffee a day going into my upcoming trip to Japan. I'm banking on being able to avoid any withdrawal migraines while traveling, though I'm sure I'll be enjoying coffee over there. My daughter has been brewing in a moka pot lately and there are some highly rated coffee shops in Tokyo that we'll probably visit, though the pictures of the drinks I see have a lot of milk and other things added that I don't really care too much about. I could cut back on roasting, but I like having three coffees and also feel like if I'm going to fire up and pre-heat the roaster for 20+ minutes that I should do multiple back-to-back roasts for efficiency sake, even though I do power my coffee roaster from a 59 pound battery bank that I recharge using solar panels in the back yard.
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Near that your battery bank can handle the load, my smaller roaster draws 1300 watts. Yesterday I read that Ford is going to repurpose all the extra battery's in stock due to the unexpected drop in demand for electric vehicles. Maybe battery banks will drop in price now. (Not counting on it, rarely do cost of goods decrease.)
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Yeah, it's rated at 2419Wh and 2200W/4400W Surge and I can comfortably roast three batches with my Bullet with it including the long pre-heat and the cool down. I have another, smaller, lighter battery bank that I take camping, mostly for just keeping our phones charged.
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Impressive.
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Good to the last drop.
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I brewed a small pot of the Sweet Maria's Peru Fair Trade Organic Perfiles washed coffee and really loved it so this morning before going out for the day with my Wife I brewed a larger pot and brought it with me in a travel mug to get my day started right.
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trying the new roast of Legacy Farms Parainema. Washed process.
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Today's cup is a new-to-me Mexico, and it's very good. It's always a relief when a new coffee meets or exceeds expectations; it can suck canal water to have 70 kilos of coffee you don't like.
New crop Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Uganda so far... looking for another 5 or 6 coffees in the next few months to get me through to next year's harvest.
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Red Sea, a Burman's blend, Ethiopia/Yemen beans.
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Researchers Say Ultrasonic Brewing Can Match Espresso, Reduce Energy
https://dailycoffeenews.com/2026/06/10/researchers-say-ultrasonic-brewing-can-match-espresso-reduce-energy/I am going to experiment with this.
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How do you plan to experiment with this, Edward?
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Figure I will start by mixing fine-ground coffee with an appropriate amount of water in a jelly jar and put the jar in my fairly strong ultrasonic cleaner for 3 minutes, let it settle and try it. Sort of like making Turkish coffee.
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