Bald Guy Brew – Local Tip – Great ideas

The Bald guy. Bald Guy Brew.

Right here in Boone, the bald guy sells and roasts great coffee. I’ve been buying my green beans from him recently and have been very pleased. Don has a mobile barristamobile where he can roast, brew, and mix awesome coffee and coffee drinks. He can roll up to cater an event or

Roast of the Day – Organic, fair trade Mexican beans

My friend Dave Day used to own Specialty Coffee Company. In developing the business he traveled to small mountain coffee farms in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The more time he spent with the farmers, the more help he realized they needed and the more he was able to help them. He helped them get organic certifications, he coached them on leadership, he helped them find a fair distributor to buy their beans so they wouldn’t have to sell to the

Coffee Roasting Tip # 4: Try it Before making a big investment – Buy some beans!

Once I read a bit about buying green beans, roasting methods. roasters, roasts, coffee origins it a couple of things became abundantly clear. First, coffee roasting is relatively simple. I recognize that being a master roaster is not simple but given that it use to be a household chore like making bread, anyone who wants to roast coffee is cabable of doing it. The second thing that struck me is that one could

Coffee Roasting Tip # 1 – Read All About Green Coffee Beans and Roasting! #1

Roasting your own sound fun? Well, it is. However, you will need to learn quite a bit about coffee as you go. You will want to learn about how coffee is grown and processed; about the varietal beans from different parts of the world and their