Wicked Sunday (Celebrate the Bean) 2009

[martybean]

Re: Wicked Sunday (Celebrate the Bean) 2009

I had a great day, first off stopped by St Ali and had some syphon brew, then purchased a hario the coffee was quite nice once it cooled a bit. It was a kenyan bean but cant remember what type.
Wagamuga

That was it David I new it had a strange name

[acoggins]

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Did anyone grab any photos? I took a few, but more general, none that positively ID any CSers.

I wish I was more of a photographer...

[beanflying]

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What a wicked weekend  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

started at BBB Saturday morning for a cupping session, thanks to Bridget and Toby for the gentle intro and a couple of interesting clover brews. Had a great double Latte as well to start off. Shame the rain put a bit of a dampener on the Cupping. Only Acog and I were at the cupping but caught up with Luca and Anne from Di Bella just afterward.

Headed to Di Bella in North Melbourne for lunch, what a fantastic set up with the roaster in the middle of the shop and lots of shiny metal to buy as well , food was good and the coffee OK but in the Batistas defence the staff were really under the pump with a near full house.

Pub and then Nightclub crawl until 3 AM following that  8-)

Sunday turned up to find Andy, Paula and the kids had already had the beans laid out (missed out on the heavy bit) Started roasting about 10 and talked and talked and talked and roasted some more. Slipped away to catch up with the BBB crew and the clover again as the Esmeralda had arrived Added a bag to the growing stash. Didnt get much of a chance to look at a lot of the stands because of the crowds and headed back to the dog bowl and hottop again. All round a great day had by all and nice to put some faces to some of the CS members.

Finished up this morning with the best 2 double Lattes of the trip (superb) and breakfast followed with a really interesting Syphon Demo with Toshi at St Ali with a lightly roasted 3 day old Kenyan. Really different dose and grind to mine so back to school and playing for me. The Hario beam heaters work a treat too.

Looked up the Auction Room for Lunch and a coffee then Aaron fired up a Syphon to follow up   Fully caffinated jump in the car for the 4 hour slog to home Currently sitting veged out on the couch looking at the pile of booty  :

I will be back and that is a threat

[chartres]

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it was a great day! and it was quite crowded despite the forecast. Pity I couldnt spend a lot of time actually getting from a stall to stall but rather had to be mostly at kids playground ;-)
nevertheless, i should say the Coffeesnobs stall was the most interesting and the most crowded, even though they didnt actually serve drinks to the masses.
theres only one thing... I expected someone would be selling some good cups (something ACFish ) and I couldt find anything... pity

[Wushoes]

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Next event will be in Sydney at CafeBiz where the NSW CSrs can have some fun making a mess.

See you there :P

[damian1]

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it was so crowded

It was! as though each stall needed about 3 times the space to accomodate the crowds.

[_moby_]

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We got there in time to watch the roasting demo on stage which went down well with the crowd.  After the rain came down for a brief time we had lunch from St Ali and latte from Five Senses.  Picked up my beans from Coffeesnobs tent and watched a syphon demo at St Ali tent.

Just my opinion, but having said all that, I do feel it was not as good an event for the punter as last year.  Attending last years event was what renewed my interest in coffee after attending some small demo sessions and having a chat with David Makin.

Obviously masses more people this year in a more accessible location which is no doubt better for the organisers and stall holders, but I personally found it much harder to engage with the whole event because it was so crowded.  We left after about 90mins yesterday, where as last year we stayed almost all of the day attending the sessions, lingering around the stands, chatting to stall holders and having several relaxing coffees.

[coffee_mum]

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WICKED, WICKED, WICKED DAY

So very educational, I saw and tasted a siphon coffee for the first time, it was a Kenyan, very smooth and sweet as it cooled, and so interesting to watch, Toshi made it look easy.

Had a couple of Bonsoy lattes from StAli, very nice, will have to source some for home, and has given me confidence to try other soys when Im out.

Bought a new grouphead cleaning brush from the cleaning products stand and scored some stencils and a small tub of backflush powder, for free

Tasted some awesome chocolate, and bought enough to make this yearseggs.

Sampled the King Island cheeses, but there was none left when I went back to buy (take esky & ice next year)

Then there was the CS tent [smiley=thumbsup.gif] I caught the aroma as I walked throuh the car park, instant direction finder, I arrived there a bit after 10.30, all roasters going, the crowd was milling about and it was the same all day, lots of people, watching, asking questions, learning, buying.

My pre-conceived intention for the day was to convince myself that I needed a Hottop. However, after watching several roasts in both the Hottop and the Gene, and talking to Linda, Beanflying and Chris (Talk Coffee) who just happened to have a Gene in his car (Wicked Man ;D) I changed my mind and came home with a lovely new Gene now for a bit of bean reseach and Ill be roasting tonight.  

To Andy and all your helpers, volunteer roasters, and other CSers I met yesterday, thankyou! It was wonderful to meet all of you and put faces to names, learn more about roasting and spend some time with such a wonderful group of enthusiastc, knowlegable and helpful people [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Caryn

[luke_gts]

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awesome day! had lots of fun and chatted to many many people... all things coffee! bigger and better than last year.. . cant wait till next year!

[yeeza]

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YeeZa wrote on Today at 07:38:
Sounds like an awesome day/event. Wish I could have been down there for it. Sounds like I missed out.


surprised u did not fly down Smiley

Dont think that I didnt think about it

[fatboy_1999]

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Certainly was a great day and all the roasters going at the CS tent had great numbers of curious onlookers. Im sure there will be a fair jump in members over the next few days.

Well done to Andy and all who helped at the tent with roasting etc.

Brett.

[Andy]

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Wow, what a day out in the sun and rain we had at Federation Square.
Thousands of people who had never seen a green bean before got to see just how easy it is to home roast.  During the day we had smoke and chaff billowing off poppers, dog bowls, Hottop, Gene Cafe and a couple of different breadmakers.  It was great sight to see.

A huge thanks to Linda, Tim, Reuben, Pip, Bruce, Chris, Nic and the crowd of CS’rs that came and had some fun on the day, the huge efforts you all put-in meant that we had multiple roasters running all day and the curious public loved it.  Once again the CS tent was easily the best, most interesting and busiest at the event with people 4 and 5 deep all day and to top it all off we never had use the fire extinguisher.


It really was a great day, tiring and I’m sure everyone on the stand has lost their voices from talking all day but its worth it when you see peoples eyes light up with amazement that its possible to roast coffee at home.

So many great people in the CS community.  Thank you for making the day great and thank you for being you.
8-)

Next event will be in Sydney at CafeBiz where the NSW CSrs can have some fun making a mess.
;D

[Ben_S]

Re: Wicked Sunday (Celebrate the Bean) 2009

Sounds like an awesome day/event. Wish I could have been down there for it. Sounds like I missed out.

surprised u did not fly down

[herbie]

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Forgot to say ...well done to Andy for his great popper demonstration on the stage. Many of the public were gobsmacked at the results. Andy gave great roasting tips and information to everyone. Herbie

[yeeza]

Re: Wicked Sunday (Celebrate the Bean) 2009

Sounds like an awesome day/event. Wish I could have been down there for it. Sounds like I missed out.