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After the old forum software breaking in a way that we were unable to fix, we've migrated the site to a new platform.

Some elements aren't working as we'd hoped - some avatars didn't survive the transition, and we're still having issues with attachments that weren't added as inline images, but we're hoping to have that all sorted out soon.

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  • beanflyingbeanflying
    Did a thorough check of your IP and email address and decided you were a bird loving terrorist and not a Bangladeshy spammer and still decided to let you in  :coffee2:
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  • Mr BeanMr Bean
    Nyuk nyuk nyuk! [evil laugh type 3] Fooled you then. I'm a sleeper gone tactical for that global evil organisation into world dominance and nastiness; INTERNATIONAL ROAST. Your days are numbered, you fresh-bean type person you.
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  • Mr BeanMr Bean
    Hello Folks Bean here . . . Bean there . . . Bean lots of places that serve the hot brown beverage good, bad and ugly. I
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  • eurekaeureka
    on 1320379125:
    Hi Mark and welcome, I think you're following me on twitter so I won't introduce myself :P, but welcome to the Crema forums. Nice to see your focus is on people first, and stuff second - it's great for the forum to have another experienced cupper/roaster around to swap ideas with. Whereabouts in Africa have you travelled? Hi Coffeehorse Thanks for your welcome. By the way my African travels included Zimbabwe back in 2000-2001. Just before things were starting to get out of hand re land ownership and the Mugabe regime. I happened to meet some coffee growers by chance while enjoying some beers at the Harare sports ground while watching a test between Australia vs Zimbabwe (which was also by chance during our visit). Enjoyed a quick visit to their plantation near the border of Mozambique (near Chipinge by memory). Not sure what has happened in the area since unfortunately. Cheers, Mark Eureka Coffee and Growers Espresso
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  • Cenzos Espresso BarCenzos Espresso Bar
    Hello everyone... Hope to catch some good tips on roasting brewing selecting beans and good coffee preparation tips.. Cheers!
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  • Koffee_KosmoKoffee_Kosmo
    on 1321422037:
    Hello everyone... Hope to catch some good tips on roasting brewing selecting beans and good coffee preparation tips.. Cheers!
    I am sure we will learn from each other Welcome to the Crema Forum KK
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  • Koffee_KosmoKoffee_Kosmo
    Welcome to crema forum to or newest members Eureka and the cheeky Mr Bean  :angel: KK
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  • beanflyingbeanflying
    on 1321424169:
    Welcome to crema forum to or newest members Eureka and the cheeky Mr Bean  :angel: KK
    Welcome too all the newcomers too  :) I can sort that Mr Bean fellow out if needed too :D
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  • Brett HBrett H
    Welcome new members.  Mr bean, your writing style is completely entertaining and enchanting... how is this possible if you are a violist?  I only assume this because the only poor sod unlucky enough to sit next to a 2nd violist and still find her sultry is... another violist!  I was led to believe that the rest of the orchestra use the 2nd viola part as a cure for insomnia.  Is it really true that they take longer to burn than violins?  Welcome and enjoy our good humored community... I can see that we will very much enjoy chatting to you... All of our new members for that matter.
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  • Mr BeanMr Bean
    on 1321444310:
    The only poor sod unlucky enough to sit next to a 2nd violist and still find her sultry is... another violist!
    Didn't your grandad word you up? "It's always the quiet ones" he wisely confided with a wink as I tackled puberty. Anyway, I only gazed from afar, as I sat with my brash comrades on the trumpet desk. But the 2nd viola left her mark. I've nursed a lifelong obsession with the all-girl string quartet, particularly if Stravinsky is in the mix. Check out http://www.escalamusic.com/home for instance. Most Casanovas will head straight for the cellist. But I know better. Viola players do it standing up . . . slowly.
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  • Brett HBrett H
    A Brass player... well one might of guessed.  Never go for the Cellist... Was it Beecham? Said to the lady Cellist: "maddam, between your legs is something that gives great pleasure.. yet all you can do is scratch at it!" Troubling words thus never a Cellist has crossed my duvet... or stood up for me!  Is is true that to get two trumpet players to play in tune you have to shoot one? 
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  • Mr BeanMr Bean
    Let's face it; both. Unless the idiom is jazz; there's much to be said for vibrato.
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  • Brett HBrett H
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    Let's face it; both. Unless the idiom is jazz; there's much to be said for vibrato.
    Nicely played!
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  • TheLightRoomTheLightRoom
    Greetings, I'm new here. (really - new here? Posting in the "I'm new here" thread. You don't think people will get that you are new?) I'm a photographer, years ago worked in the family caf
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  • Koffee_KosmoKoffee_Kosmo
    Welcome TLR Great to have you on the forum & hope you become a regular contributor KK
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  • TheLightRoomTheLightRoom
    Thanks for the warm welcome. Re: lurk - more get to know the lay of the land....  :)
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  • Brett HBrett H
    on 1321943338:
    Thanks for the warm welcome. Re: lurk - more get to know the lay of the land....  :)
    Welcome TLR... we like coffee, post away!  ;)
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  • TheLightRoomTheLightRoom
    Thanks Brett and all. Appreciate the warm welcome!
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  • beanflyingbeanflying
    Welcome along to the other side of the Pacific ditch Jim  :) Look forward to your input. Jim of "PID Kits" fame for those who haven't run across him before.
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  • UNMUNM
    on 1322274054:
    Welcome along to the other side of the Pacific ditch Jim  :) Look forward to your input. Jim of "PID Kits" fame for those who haven't run across him before.
    I think you mean of "tc4 fame" and of course the all new tc4c. Welcome Jim. Love your work.
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  • JimGJimG
    Nice to hear from everyone.  Thanks for the warm welcome. Jim
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  • JimGJimG
    ... and happy that you were fooled into accepting me  :D I am a little bit of a temperature geek, and the guy behind pidkits.com.  Lately, I've been focusing more on new product development than on kit building (very sorry if you are one of the several people who have contacted me recently about buying a Watlow kit).  Specifically, I've been building on the TC4 system that Bill Welch created, and am having a great time imagining and testing the possibilities! Progress is being made slowly, but someday soon I hope to make a range of open source PID kits available for controlling espresso machines and roasters. Thanks again for the warm welcome. Jim
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  • Brett HBrett H
    Hi JimG. Really great to have you here.  Welcome!
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  • Dry_bean.Dry_bean.
    on 1319947573:
    G'day. I'm Divey. I'm an old fart who has just found out that you can roast coffee at home with a popcorn popper and I'm hooked.  :) I was asked if I would like to join this forum by another member here after swapping several personal messages on another forum. We were both unimpressed after a personal message was accessed, altered and then forwarded on. Very poor form in my books. I'm a lover and not a fighter and I'm here to learn more about the finer art of roasting coffee at home. Pretty simple stuff eh!!
    G'Day Divey, welcome to Crema. You've started down a slippery slope, wait till you get hit with upgradeitis, it comes to all of us. ;)
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  • shape_shiftershape_shifter
    Howdy Sid :) come play with the boys :rofl:
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  • sidoneysidoney
    Oh yeah SS, that's me!! I'd better have a browse around and see what's what.
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  • sidoneysidoney
    Greetings all! I've been enabled onto this forum by shapeshifter. I'm not here to get away from anything or anything like that, I'm just here! I learned about good coffee a little while back. I don't have any special super duper gear or anything. Currently I have a new, used (I've had it a day) Rancilio Silvia with an Auber PID kit on it (and no idea what PID stands for), a currently retired (awaiting collar replacement if I get around to it) SB EM6910, SB EM0480 grinder I got at the same time at the SB machine, and a later addition of a FZ-RR 700 Baby Roaster - the motorised version (I ordered the non motorised, they accidentally shipped me the motorised one, and kindly let me keep it with no price adjustment). And oh hey, I have on order a Pullman tamper and basket, bit of an indulgence but what's life for if not the occasional indulgence? Apart from that I am working on a PhD (social psychology), I am a parent, I have horses and dogs and cats and fish and birds and chooks and things. I love my Kindle e-reader! I read lots of different things. I like to watch Doctor Who and The Goodies and Mythbusters and various docos about science and history and a range of stuff but don't watch lots of TV overall and don't do it mindlessly. I can quote some Monty Python skits and exchanges from movies verbatim. (I went with my dad to the Sydney premier of Life of Brian! That was a while back. Yes I'm not a spring chicken.) Erm ... is that enough? ;) Oh yeah ... me and the chat board ... FEAR ME!!! (most especially when shapeshifter is there too - you'd better be typing fast :P ). Well really I don't spend much time on chat boards but the chat board being on the front page ... it's hard to avoid!!
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  • Brett HBrett H
    Welcome Sidoney!  I fear that with your list of interests you'll fit in around here all too easily!  Also, If you are looking to us as a Phd data collection point you'll find nothing out of the ordinary or confronting.  We are all really normal... nothing to see here... move along everybody... WELCOME!
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  • farmroastfarmroast
    Hello all, Been roasting with a homebuilt roaster for quite a few years and enjoy using lever espresso machines.
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  • LacehimLacehim
    Oh another lever enthusiast. :). Welcome
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