Hello all, Lurked for a while and decided to join up. Started with a stove top coffee maker as a uni student back in the late 80's complete with a propeller type bean smasher/grinder. First machine was the ubiquitous krups black box thingy once working. Had various brevs/sunbeams after that. Got myself an icoffee roaster a little while ago , and of course lead to further upgrades, now have a nice ECM mech IV profi and a mazzer mini, should cure the desire for any upgrades for a long time... Pretty keen (all grain ) home brewer, pinotphile (get some strange looks with that one sometimes) and general foodie. Inherited the "why buy that, i can build that " gene off the old man, and have recently sold my surgery and have become a boatbuilder. Building a 12.5m sailing cat in which will hopefully circumnavigate with the kids ( aged 6&4 at present) until they have to go to high school, although that seems to be stretching to grade 9 now, with some mumblings of boarding school. Have had a sailing vessel of some kind since I was 10, this is my first with more than one hull though. Might be able to make some money whilst cruising as a floating cafe ;D Already thinking of ways of using my ramp/soak PID control box I made for brewing to control a bigger roaster, don't think I'll tell my partner about that yet . cheers
