Beanology 2013 - CafeBiz 2013 - Sydney - 10th and 11th March.

[TC]

Safe travels lads

[Barry_Duncan]

See you all there on Sunday.

Barry

[poddypod]

Need to register??

See you all there on Sunday.

Barry

Hi Barry &/or Andy,
Do we need to register as well if we have already bought tickets thru coffee snobs?
Thanks (& I am very excited to be going and seeing y'all)
Peter

[Andy]

no need to register as far as I know.
We will have name badges on the door for everyone.

[Barry_Duncan]

Today it was good to catch up with Andy and the Snobs there at Beanology 2013.

There were several there from as far as Newcastle and Maitland.

We had a go at roasting single origin coffees in several Behmor Roasters and compared the tesults.

Andy had to cancel the Monday Beanology as there was no fire warden unable for that day.

Barry

[Andy]

Re: Beanology 2013 - CafeBiz 2013 - Sydney - 10th and 11th March.

Had a top day, it was super busy but great fun.
The new format seemed to work well, nearly entirely hands on so everyone shared knowledge in their groups instead of just getting talked at by me all day.

Seemed everyone left with a new idea or some thoughts they didn't have previously which is the reason we do these events.

Congrats to Dean who won the new Pullman tamper, good score for someone who couldn't make today then managed to shuffle commitments to get here. Thanks to Greg for his support of CS and Cafebiz.

Craig from Otto came and drew the winner of the new Otto Espresso machine... Gary has just got himself an awesome new toy, looking forward to seeing his review.

All in all an excellent bean filled day out. It was fun catching up with so many CSrs at once and I look forward to the next one.

[scoota_gal]

There were several there from as far as Newcastle and Maitland.

Barry

I think that there were some from as far as Wee Waa too!

[eltoro]

I had to leave shortly after we started the final session on blending. How did we go and what did we end up doing?

Steve

[resonatorman]

Damn jealous I couldn't make it , oh well hopefully next year....

[Barry_Duncan]

While there were people from all over the place, there was a broad variety of coffee skills there from beginners in coffee brewing and roasting, long term amateurs like me as well as café owners and commercial roasters.

We split into small groups and did several roasts with different origins in Behmor roasters and we tasted the results from each group.

As well as gaining much coffee information from Andy, we had time to discuss coffee with others. About the only thing that we all had in common was our love of coffee.

We had the chance to look at the Café Biz which was a trade fair largely looking towards the commercial side of coffee.

This was held in what is now called the Australian Technology Park which is in the huge buildings that once housed the Eveleigh railway workshops where the NSW steam locomotives were built and maintained.

You can still see some of the huge cranes used to lift locomotives and massive lathes for making them.

Barry