CafeBiz 2009 - have CoffeeSnobs will roast!

[flynnaus]

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Dennis from Cuppacoffee (also great bloke - will be heading down to Marrikville asap!)  

Marrackville? You arent looking for an excuse to have another opening are you Den?
bjeck: youll have more luck in finding Cuppacoffee if you head to Sylvania.

Sorry I missed this one but the missus had already booked me to go to the Hunters Hill Food and Wine Festival and Id already used some brownie points in heading to the Cuppacoffe (re-)Opening event on Saturday morning. However, as I succeeded in returning without any bright and shiny equipment AND with some Snobby Chai, my store of brownie points wasnt too depleted. Good to catch up with many CSers there though and the Cup of Excellence was..errr...excellent!

[bjeck14]

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Really disappointed I missed everyone yesterday - I arrived after 3:30 (having spent the weekend in the Hunter). But still managed to have a good chat to Andy (great bloke), Dennis from Cuppacoffee (also great bloke - will be heading down to Marrikville asap!) and a fascinating chat with Anne from Di Bella (what a legend!).

I dribbled over the first Giotto I have seen in the flesh, and saw my first CS42 while meeting scoota!

All in all, a fun afternoon. Great to meet like-minded people, awesome to see machines that my money cant buy, and now I have an extra 12.5kg of green

[ml27]

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Twas a real pleasure to meet all of you and hang around, watch some roasts and chat.. Helped me reaslise that im not the only oddball home roaster in Sydney!

Mark

[cksyd]

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By the way, that Bugatti thing - walking past the spiel was 15 either hundred but I think 15 thou Swarovski crystals.....

Prefer a coffee machine personally..... :-?


Chris

[cksyd]

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Picked myself up a copy of Seans new Home Coffee Machine Review book

I got me a Coffeesnobs shirt....

Must change profile tag line......

[Coffee2Di4]

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Nah, told her from the get-go that shed be wearing it, so Id hate to disappoint Scoots! ;D

I had noticed that you were being a gentleman but, being female, I dont have to display that quality... (bigger cheesy grin again, if only I had a smiley for it!)

Ah-ha! I think I know who you were TG now in hindsight, but didnt realise it was you so didnt want to just wander up to a stranger and stick my hand out...damn, another missed opportunity!

[cksyd]

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No photos to share, unfortunately, although Scootas CS42 above (roasted in the Dalek), was a sight to  behold and well worth the trip in itself to see.  

Ha - you dobbed her in!!!!

Chris

......at least I left the roaster anonymous.... ;D

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Yeah, good times today.

Its always great to run into some old faces, and meet some new, lovely coffee peoples

And special thanks to Andy for his generosity! Greatly appreciated

[Thundergod]

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I managed to drop in around 2:00pm for a couple of hours.
The first thing I saw when I walked through the entrance was the Coffee Snobs van.
A Godsend as I hadnt had a coffee since breakfast and having survived my karate grading I was long overdue for my next caffeine fix.

Scoots obliged with my first taste of WOW.
It was GOOD (and I dont usually drink short blacks).
Luckily for me Andy was distracted talking to some people so Scoots gave me another that Andy was ignoring.

I finally bought me some WOW and a bag of CS Chai as well for the better half.

From there we ventured inside and I had my next coffee from Di Bella before introducing myself. here coffee was nice too.

Then I spotted Sanchia and had a quick chat followed by a brief hello to Michelle and Yeeza.

Renzo was everywhere; either that or there was threee of him.

Ran into Dennis as well and he made me a nice piccolo with Bonsoy after the lady at the Bonsoy stand assured me it was good.

My wife hurried me past the 2kg Diedrich roaster and then said it was time to go.

I said bye to Scoots and Andy and consider it a nice afternoon out.

[Coffee2Di4]

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Well Ive just arrived home after the 2 hour journey up the F3. I had a great day playing with Andys different roasters and managed to bring home a couple of little baggies of fresh roasted browns.

Andy, Scoots, Dennis (Cuppacoffee) & CKSYD were brilliant company, the displays inside were interesting although definitely more set up for the retail environment than home user, of course.

Picked myself up a copy of Seans new Home Coffee Machine Review book, so Im looking forward to burying my nose in it but, from an initial glance, looks really interesting. Ill give more of a rundown on it once Ive read it if it interests anyone.

Overall, a very successful day and well and truly worth the drive and getting over my fear of driving in Sydney.

No photos to share, unfortunately, although Scootas CS42 above (roasted in the Dalek), was a sight to behold and well worth the trip in itself to see. Im still chuckling to myself about someone who was looking at Andys tray of CS1-9 beans and talking about so, are these French Roast, are these Italian Roast, etc and picked up some Scoota Specials and asked what sort of roast those ones were - I bet they are rich and chocolately... ;D ;D ;D The a couple were looking at beans and the male was talking to Andy a little bit about beans and the lady picked up some of Scoots beans, recoiled in horror and started shuffling backwards as fast as she could dragging the male with her... Funny as a fit!

The quote, for me, of the day was when Den and I were off to one side and I was saying that someone over there looked a bit wacky, and Den replied "Well, lets face it, all of us roasters are pretty strange, arent we...goes with the territory." Fair point, I think!

Cheers
Di

[Dimal]

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Nice photos Chris.... 8-)

Mal.

[cksyd]

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More

[cksyd]

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A few more

[cksyd]

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we decided this is CS42.....

the camera makes it look lighter than it is....

it was BLACK!!!!!!

[cksyd]

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Well that was a bit of fun...

Met Andy, Hoyks, Scoota gal and maybe a few others who didnt identify themselves...

Caught up with ml27 again as well...

Loads of people interested in the Snobs stand which was great. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

A few pics -

Mr Freeman

how is this for bling...