I am playing around with twitter on Our Coffee Barn. Have you tried twitter yet?

We are changing to a newer faster dedicated server right now.  You may find that you can’t log on to place an order now.  We are getting the security certificates migrated to the new server so you may not be able to place an order right now.

Please come back later this morning and our site will be running faster than ever before!

I uploaded a video clip of this to You Tube also.  Here is the You Tube video embedded into this post.

 

I just had to get a picture of this!  We sell them both and what better endorsment than to have them both used by a Barista in the USBC Semi Finals.  He used some fresh ground coffee drip brewed in the Chemex pint coffee brewer in the signature drink category.

We got to meet the Hottop crew at the SCAA Convention!  Michael was GREAT a VERY nice man to do business with!  I hope to have a very long business relationship with Hottop.  Here are a few pictures, and a video of Michael unpacking a Hottop Coffee Roaster, I took this video to show just how well they are packed.

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We have found a new home coffee roaster to carry!!!!  It is affordable I think they told me Retail for $159.00!  They let me take some video of one in operation at the SCAA convention trade show.  I will be posting 2 videos and 2 pictures.

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Our plans for the day are to get some more pictures of some new products that we are going to carry on our sites store.  I will be posting them here as I can.

Saturday May 3rd

I want to apologize if this blog does not look or flow like other blogs, I am a Coffee Roaster NOT a reporter!

I had to get a picture of this roaster, the only thing similar to my current roaster is the color!  I would love to be able to fill this roaster up for 10 or 20 batches a day! but I only need a 15K roaster I think this one is a 40K or so.

Petes new roaster?

We walked a LOT and met alot of peolple too.  When we wanted a place to rest the US Barista Competition was the place with the chairs.

Some of the competitors had to deal with a lot of cameras too!

The waiting and watching sensory judges.

Grinding and dosing for a shot of espresso.

We are going to the 2008 SCAA Convention in Minneapolis!

Here is a link to the Specialty Coffee Association of Americas Convention Official Site

We will be attending the convention May 2nd through May 4th.  Watch this section of our site for live updates from the floor of the show! Or at least nightly updates, I am not a reporter!

We had a great day at the convention!  Got some new business contacts, and met a few established contacts for the first time!   We could not take any video of the show.  I did take a few photos today but I do not have the photo editing software on my laptop to get the pictures to a smaller size for the site, sorry.

Sunday Morning:

I am finding out my new sites blogging abilities and I do not need my expensive photo editing software for this!

We have had an increase in Yama Vacuum Brewer sales the past couple of weeks and we are currently out of both the 5 cup and 8 cup stove top models.  The 5 cup model will be back in stock by Friday April 25th or early next week.  The 8 cup model will not be here until May 9th.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I am starting to seriously look for a larger roaster!  I am finding that during almost every roasting session I have 3 or 4 repeat batches of the same coffee now.  Sometimes with large orders it is 10 or more batches of the same coffee!  I have put this off for a while now but I soon will have to get a larger roaster.

 In the meantime have no worries about consistency, I am the Owner and Roastmaster of Our Coffee Barn.  Not just Roastmaster but the only one roasting for us at all and I have been roasting now for  5 years on my current Diedrich IR3.  With this roaster and the same sized batch of coffee an exact match of the previous roast is VERY easy to do.

We lowered our roasted coffee prices to see if the roasted sales would increase and you (over 5000 registered customers!) have proven to us that good honest customer service and the freshest roasted coffee available, roasted to it’s “perfect point” of roasting along with a very reasonable price keeps customers coming back!

We are now using water soluable cornstarch packing peanuts! 

Decomposes in water leaving no toxic waste. FDA approved.

So you can just wash them down the drain, or we ask that you recycle them if possible.

We are also recycling all of the cardboard boxes we get items shipped to us in.  We cut them into rectangles to be used for additional protection layers with the glass items we ship. Or we save them to ship large wholesale orders of coffee in.  We can’t get away with not buying new boxes but we do reuse or recycle all the boxes we get.  Could you do the same?