I received my monthly fix of greenies last Friday with the rest of the Melbourne crowd, and eagerly set to roasting on Saturday morning as soon as I had liberated myself from bed and the papers. I tried some of the newly acquired Ethiopian, and noticed that it was strangely absent of both smoke and chaff. Although this was odd, it isnt unheard of so I proceeded to the end of the roast, where I dumped the beans and cooled them.
It was at this point I noticed that they were particularly small compared to the Africans from which I have become accustomed to. This is where I started to doubt that the coffee had actually roasted correctly.The beans were small, extremely dense and pretty mottley looking. Having pulled an extremely unsuccessful shot from them on Monday, I moved onto the Sihereni from the poll a couple of months ago that was roasted in the same sitting as the Limu. As a result, it was Wednesday before I looked at the Ethiopian roast again. Feeling slightly peeved at what seemed to me a wasted roast or a really, really bad coffee I bit a bean in half to see if it was infact coffee. And this is where the world stopped.... THE CENTRE 1/2 WAS STILL GREEN!
What the hell happened? Did I bake me some coffee? Was my humble little popper too weak/strong for the fabled mighty aroma of the Limu?
It was at this point I noticed that they were particularly small compared to the Africans from which I have become accustomed to. This is where I started to doubt that the coffee had actually roasted correctly.The beans were small, extremely dense and pretty mottley looking. Having pulled an extremely unsuccessful shot from them on Monday, I moved onto the Sihereni from the poll a couple of months ago that was roasted in the same sitting as the Limu. As a result, it was Wednesday before I looked at the Ethiopian roast again. Feeling slightly peeved at what seemed to me a wasted roast or a really, really bad coffee I bit a bean in half to see if it was infact coffee. And this is where the world stopped.... THE CENTRE 1/2 WAS STILL GREEN!
What the hell happened? Did I bake me some coffee? Was my humble little popper too weak/strong for the fabled mighty aroma of the Limu?

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