Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Tea in England
From: ericm at pobox.com (Eric)
Date: Thu Apr 15 14:51:52 2004
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Karen:

>I've gone the deep-end, the Leica-M equivalent of coffeemaking.
>
>We buy our coffee beans green from SweetMarias.com. It's less than 
>half the price of roasted beans and green  beans can store for over a 
>year. You can also blend to your heart's delight.
>
>We then roast in a popcorn popper. We had a dedicated coffee roaster 
>(round ~$200) but it melted down, so we do it in the popper, which 
>actually gives us more control.
>
>We grind in a Rancilio Syvia  and produced the espresso in a Rancilio Rocky.

Close.  The Leica M way would be to use a Zassenhaus hand mill to grind your
beans.  From Sweet Maria's to roasting it myself (with an $80 dedicated
roaster), sounds like we take similar paths.  From there, I use a hand mill
and then a French press.  :)

Mmmm.

--
Eric
http://canid.com/


In reply to: Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Tea in England)
Message from gwpics at aol.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] Tea in England)
Message from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Tea in England)