Evening all. Part Aussie part Pom here. Born in Aus, grew up in the UK, and been back here 12 years or so. Have moved about a bit in my years here. Started in Melbourne, then went to Cairns, now in Darwin. I used to be at the green place under a different name but got fed up with it and haven't been there for a couple of years. I started my coffee infatuation small with an ex cafe rancilio 26 (I think) 2 group machine, but passed that on to a friend when I moved out of Cairns. I also handed on the roasting setup to the same guy. I then picked up a Bezzera Family lever machine from the 60s or 70s that I found in the UK for silly money and imported that back into Australia. Photos to come in the lever gallery thread. I kind of fell out of love with the whole coffee roasting/ making process when I moved to Darwin. It's not much hotter than Cairns but it's enough to stop me wanting a sit first thing in the morning. However autumn is approaching and there have been a few days when I have recently fancied a coffee in the morning. Roasters up here are few and far between so I need to build up my roasting kit again. I have the bread maker and heat gun organised but need to sort out cooling and temperature reading so I can make sure I am roasting consistently. Anyway after thinking a few of you had written essays I seem to have done the same. So I shall see you in the forums. By the way should tapatalk have an icon for this forum on android? Only it doesn't seem to, to me. All I get is the text when I create a shortcut for this place on my android homepage.
