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Let's Talk Coffee Roasting!

16/10/2020

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Dear readers, this week we would like talk a little bit about coffee roasting! As some of you know, the coffee cherry is picked and then roasted before it actually makes it to the bags of coffee that you purchase from the shops. Coffee beans can be roasted in different ways such as light, medium, and dark, and the flavour of your coffee largely depends on the roasting process. “it is for the home brewer, perhaps the most important stage of the entire chain of events that takes us from farm to cup” “roasting the coffee beans.. this keenly observed and succinct process that gracefully traverses the line between science and art..” As you may be thinking, this is a very complex process that requires skill and diligence. After the coffee is picked from the farm, the roasters will buy it. Many roasters, but not all, will take into consideration the sustainability and ethics of the farm. Roasting coffee requires much skill and can very easily be messed up, this is why the roaster needs to be someone who possesses a great deal of skill. “..a bad roaster or an average roaster… can very easily corrupt even the finest specialty beans” The method of roasting a bean can change and manipulate the flavor dramatically which is why roasters will go through years of roasting and experimenting and trying different methods and styles until they come up with something that they like! “…the growing realization that coffee is enormously complex has only really cemented a feeling of acceptance as to how powerless we are to truly affect and select its attributes on a molecular scale.”  Coffee roasting can take anywhere from 7-20 minutes generally speaking, and the main idea is to generate a flavor through applying heat to the beans. The water contained in the beans will slowly start to evaporate, this is the drying process. Then the beans will become so dry that they go through a stage called first crack. Think of a snail that has become too large for its shell that it pops off! The coffee can actually be consumed at this point but depending on the roast style, the process can be continued and roasted more. The longer you leave the coffee in the roaster, the more nutty, charred, and smokey the flavor becomes. The darker roasts are often used for espresso. There is so much more to this process, but hopefully this was a helpful intro into the coffee roasting process. We hope that you feel inspired to do more research and to learn a little bit more about all that goes in to the process of having a delicious cup of coffee! 
Have a blessed weekend!
TMPC


​information sourced from The Curious Barista's Guide to Coffee by Tristan Stephenson. Published in 2019 by Cindy Richards.
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image from: https://www.sabores.co.za/2019/08/13/different-coffee-roast-types/  
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The Ten

9/9/2020

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The Ten

2/7/2020

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Calculate Your Caffeine Intake

19/7/2018

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We will almost always support the hunt for caffeine. However, too much can be harmful for you, and we certainly don't want that!

We're sharing this helpful little calculator we found on visual.ly to help you determine if you might be better off exchanging your fifth cup of the day for one of our decaf teas instead! ;)
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The Caffeine Calculator

From Visually.

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The Ten for July

4/7/2018

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Each month, we release 10 creative prompts that we hope inspire and encourage the creative community around us. Whatever your craft may be, let one of these prompts inspire your next piece of work - and then show it to us! We'd love to see :) you can tag us in the picture of your creation @the_meeting_place
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The Ten for July:
1. Wild
2. What's on your coffee table?
3. Formidable
4. Self-portrait
5. Something that rhymes with 'station'
6. Hopefully
7. Small question
8. Comfort looks like...
9. Caramel
​10. Quick
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Coffee bean grinding for all the beginners

13/6/2018

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As a 'barista in training' when it comes to making coffee there is a lot of new words, smells, flavours, ideas and concepts that I suddenly need to understand."The slowest part of coffee extraction is not the rate at which compounds dissolve from the particulate surface. Rather, it’s the speed at which coffee flavor moves through the solid particle to the water-coffee interface, and this speed is increased with temperature." 
Uhm what..? I'm always looking for inspiration and information as to how I can make good coffee without fully understanding the whole science behind it. And today I was stumbling over this little chart that just makes the coffee aspect of my life a little bit easier. Not only because we need to understand the difference between coarse and fine coffee grinds for different brewing methods, but because it compares the size of the grinds with something that we actually understand - like salt. So here it is. Hopefully making your coffee tasting better at home!
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(Chart found on en.ilovecoffee.jp)
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The Ten for June

4/6/2018

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Each month, we release 10 creative prompts that we hope inspire and encourage the creative community around us. Whatever your craft may be, let one of these prompts inspire your next piece of work - and then show it to us! We'd love to see :) you can tag us in the picture of your creation @the_meeting_place
Ten creative captions for the month of June by The Meeting Place Cafe to encourage the local Brisbane and Mitchelton coffee-loving creative community
In case the picture of the ten isn't loading, here are the prompts:
1. My cup overflows
2. Unorthodox weapon
3. Alone
4. Waterworks
5. Sage
6. Round Three
7. Favorite flavour
8. Fresh
9. Monochromatic
​10. The last thing that made you sing
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Occassions that Call for Coffee

16/5/2018

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We're advocates for coffee at any time - but there are some moments in particular that seem just a little incomplete without a good cuppa. It adds an element of coziness, familiarity, and delightful caffeination that can move a "good" moment to a "great" one, don't you think?

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What are some of your favorite occasions that call for some coffee?
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Science-y but Simple: What's in your coffee?

10/5/2018

 

Each month we scour the web for interesting coffee finds to share with you. This month, we came across this simple but interesting infographic about what's going on in your cup of coffee! Topics of address include the health benefits of drinking coffee, chemicals to be aware of, and why caffeine might be better for you, to name a few.
What we like about this infographic is that there is a little more of a scientific focus and minimalist organization of information. Take a look!

What is in your coffee? Health benefits of coffee. Chemicals to be aware of in your coffee...
The link to the picture itself can be found here: thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/whats-in-your-coffee_5171880e92f67.png and the website that held the original link can be found here: paul-murray.org/infografical/infographical-digest-26-april-2013/

Synonyms for a Cuppa

18/4/2018

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Every so often, we produce a little "just for fun" content here at TMPC. This month, we decided to make a poster regarding the many subtitles that can be given to a simple cup of coffee.

Which one is your favorite? Or which ones did we miss?

TMPC presents: the many different things you can call a cup of coffee
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