Are these Ethiopian Yirgacheffe?

Brett_H

3rd Crack wrote:

Sorry for your experience, PM me your address and I'll send you some complimentary Gr1 Yirg - roasted and green if you want.

What a fabulous and generous offer. I've seen these beans first hand in the cafe and will buy some when I'm next over your way. They look terrific.

FreshCoffee2

Acog is awesome wrote:

...This looks like its come from the bucket a lot of roasters have sitting next to the cooling tray where they throw quakers, stones and the like in as they spot them. i.e. this is the rejects pile....

I've never heard this one before. Unless the alien material has a completely different & contrasting colour, you've got buckley's of seeing anything different to the norm in a cooling tray. About the only thning i've ever been able to see and pick out of a cooling tray is corn that has popped and is therefore white and easily seen. And if you dont get to it quick enough it gets stirred back into the beans and disappears....so not easy to do anyway. Perhaps my eyesight's never bean any good ;D...or perhaps the grades of coffee I am used to using are extremely well graded (and expensive). In any case that is why having a destoner is so important (mandatory as far as I am concerned) for any commercial enterprise. I would guess that anyone that has a bucket of this stuff next to his cooling tray, has just put it there to empty his destoner into it.....??????

GaryatGala wrote:

Dry processed and poor grading. Swept from the roadside in Yirgy country, thrown into a pile and packed.....

Not relevant, some of the most interesting characters can come from poor looking greens. I'm sticking with: roasted way too fast, pulled too early (although the end result after: "roasted way too fast" would still look like a dogs breakfast no matter when its pulled). ie, no proper control over the roast.... Not that I want to know and I dont think anyone should as I dont think the web is for embarrassing people, but my theory would be......a newby "roaster".....whatever....as I said I dont want to know and I dont think anyone else should either. All anyone needs to do is vote with their feet and purchase their coffee elsewhere OR....if you want to be helpful (to yourself as well as to the roaster and therefore to other clients that might benefit as a result of someone being helpful):

Jonty wrote:

I'd suggest to....return to the roaster &....give him the bag you purchased......as a basis for private discussion.... 😉

(yes I have distorted the quote a little but I think it means much the same thing.....)

FreshCoffee2

FYI. This represents around 2 TON of throughput of admittedly, very well graded beans, "harvested" from my destoner about an hour ago (actually its still sitting in the destoner tray before I tipped it out). It is impossible to see it both in the greens as well as in the roasted product in the cooling tray. It's "needle in a haystack" stuff especially if you consider that it may represent around say 150 grams (?), in 2 tons. And of course it doesnt just take care of "stones" and other alien stuff, but any coffee beans that are outside a certain "profile". Badly graded or low quality coffee may yield a higher percentage, nevertheless my opinion is you would not be able to see it and certainly not pick it out without the aid of the destoner. My opinion only, but anyone operating commercially without a destoner has rocks in their head (not just in their coffee) 😃 Hope that helps, A.

FreshCoffee2

Readily available Yirg gr2 washed, in its bag. One photo (green hue) just taken in "natural" light and Other photo (notsogreen hue) just taken with flash Same bag of coffee, slightly different shot angle.

FreshCoffee2

From the same bag, roasted this afternoon. photo taken an hour ago next to the roasting plant, lights out in the building, flash foto. Despite the usual number of visual defects in this type of coffee, it will cup nicely (in fact I brought some home with me to start cupping tomorrow morning).

Brett_H

Georgeous Attilio! How do we interstaters order some?

FreshCoffee2

Thanks for your interest Brett. Please direct your enquiries to contact@cosmorexcoffee.com.au, as we dont have any e-commerce happening at this time on the website (soon, but not yet....incidentally looking at the new website proposals and format tomorrow arvo). We have been cupping this Yirg by ourselves at home over the weekend and also with those that dropped in including family, we've done espresso, long black and cappuccino, and it is developing nicely as expected. On the red wine now however.....the sun's over the yard arm over here 😉 Regardz, A.

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Fresh Coffee wrote:

From the same bag, roasted this afternoon. Despite the usual number of visual defects in this type of coffee, it will cup nicely (in fact I brought some home with me to start cupping tomorrow morning).

To be honest, this is much more like what I would have been expecting, in the bag

3rd Crack wrote:

Sorry for your experience, PM me your address and I'll send you some complimentary Gr1 Yirg - roasted and green if you want.

Hi mate, sorry for the belated response, as I've been interstate and not logging in as much as I'd like; would very much like to take you up on your offer, but would be very happy to pay - will PM you! cheers A

The_Tempest

I'm late to the party, but wow, i've never seen an amateur roaster put out beans like that let alone a pro. Horribly, horribly graded (or a blend of local Yirg beans not fit for export). How on earth could a roaster, in good conscience, sell those beans?

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