Coffee for a Cause - Fundraiser

[grendel]

Well Monday was the big roast day, the orders had proliferated to over 60kg of roasted coffee which meant that we needed to roast 80kg of green beans to make the orders up.

Roasting took 2 and a half hours and I have the full story here: http://cafe-grendel.blogspot.com/200...ri-coffee.html, but here are some photos from the day with coffee snobs included.

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The Pour

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Sample

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BEANS!

[grendel]

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Errr out of order but you get where it goes. . .

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Tanghy, Grendel and Chris002200 packing and sealing (and grinding for the philistines).

[grendel]

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This was half of the total boxes of coffee - the car, the house, my clothes, our children - all a loverly caramel coffee aroma!

[grendel]

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All up it should raise about $1800 and this is 6 times my initial goal - but a much more useful amount. It could never have grown to this point without the help of Andy and the CS mods and the generous donations of beans from ym fellow coffeesnobs. MatthewG in particular provided a very generous gift of beans (and the $50 postage to ship them) which really boosted the total amount - our roaster Kamran also donated 25kg of top quality beans to help us meet the avalanche of orders - it was amazing all round so thank you all for your help.

I am particularly grateful to CSers Tanghy and Chris002200 who arrived to help pack the beans and cut an 8 hour job to a 2 hour job.

[Dimal]

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Wow! Looks like you had a great day there Grendel in amongst all that great equipment and people who know how to use it.... A terrific experience, eh and an altogether very successful venture. Cant wait to try my beans when they arrive, will hold my next roast over for a few more days .

Cheers mate,
Mal.

[Javaphile]

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An awesome project Grendel with great results!


Java "Way to go!" phile

[grendel]

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Shipping all those anonymous black bags in my car on the way home I was actually hoping the police would pull me over. I knew that smell would taunt them the rest of the night. . .

[Viviane]

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Just got my beans and finished the first cup. What can I say but yummmm....

[Dimal]

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Received mine this morning too Grendel,

Absolutely beautiful mate, a great bean roasted to perfection.... what else needs to be said 8-)

Mal.

[grendel]

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Great to hear Mal, Enjoy it!

[chris002200]

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Hey Grendel, you did a good job mate.

The beans were great and roasted to perfection. Enjoyed them over the weekend just gone.