We’ve celebrated our third month in business and are staring our fourth right straight square in the face.  During this time, I’ve had to overcome the learning curve of roasting coffee on a five burner gas grill converted into a coffee roaster while nailing down the roast development necessary to make great coffee. This learning curve has been helped considerably by Shane Lewis at RK Drums who I can’t speak more highly of.  Shane has been instrumental in helping me understand

Like virtually any lifestyle-based hobby or interest, coffee itself has buzz words.  Specialty, craft, third wave coffee, artisan, gourmet, etc.  They all describe coffee in a unique way, but in most instances really don’t describe anything at all.  Unless you’re down with the lingo, any specific adjective motioned towards the ever-changing “artisanship” of the current coffee movement is more trendy than descriptive at best. I’ve recently started listening to Chris Baca & Jar