New to Australia... US equipment!

[violine]

Hi everyone. i am new here - to coffeesnobs and to Australia. I moved to WA in August and my cargo container arrived late last week, so I am ready to start roasting with my FreshRoast SR300 (and a 3000W power transformer, yikes!!!!), a Virtuoso grinder and a Presso. I did my research before packing and it was less expensive to bring the roaster and buy a transformer (which I also bought in the US and packed) than to buy a new home roaster here. No snickering about having a massive 10k transformer sitting on my kitchen counter/bench and a manual espresso maker, please. I did bring a few other appliances that seemed to be expensive here - a fuzzy logic rice cooker and an upscale digital slow cooker - so the transformer will get used, but none that use the power that the roaster does.

My problem? I cant find any green beans! I would much rather buy locally to support merchants here in the Perth metro area.

Thanks for the great site -

violine

[Andy]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

Welcome to CoffeeSnobs violine.

Thanks for the great site

The very same "great site" is also local to every Australian town and you can find plenty of green beans in BeanBay

8-)

You might be the only one in the country using a Freshroast although maybe a couple of Zack&Danny machines came here in the past.

Im sure some of Perth CSrs would love to see it, you might want to hook-up with them at one of the Perth pickups?

Happy roasting

[violine]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

you can find plenty of green beans in BeanBay

I ordered some

[greenman]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

Welcome to CS and Perth violine, you will have to come to Beanbay pickup and meet some of the WA crew, its a great way to meeet fellow coffee lovers in a social atmosphere where we road test each others roasts and show off our shiny new toys

[violine]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

you will have to come to Beanbay pickup and meet some of the WA crew

Looking forward to it When/where/how often do you have such meetings?

[Javaphile]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

When/where/how often do you have such meetings?

http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1268286656


Java "Welcome to CS!" phile

[greenman]

Re: New to Australia... US equipment!

you will have to come to Beanbay pickup and meet some of the WA crew

Looking forward to it   When/where/how often do you have such meetings?

beanbay is once a month and Perth pickup is generally two weeks after beanbay, keep an eye out for beanbay posts and pickup dates in the Beanbay Banter thread. It is held at Caffeinfreaks place, generally on a Sat around 2-3pm!!