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Stock Update – August 2010
Jul 31, 10 by
Just a quick update on beans in stock and a special mention: One of the Ministry Grounds staple beans is the wonderfully consistent and versatile Brazil ‘Sweet Collection’ from the impressive Daterra Estate. I use it in two blends, and I roast a tonne of it as an SO for lots of people. But, as [...]
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Where, Oh where have the Behmor’s gone?
Jul 22, 10 by
They’re floating off Sydney! There’s been a growing level of interest in the latest shipment of the Behmor Home Roaster. This now seems to be the norm, as it proves difficult to keep the flow of roasters coming to keep up with demand, while not being able to hold too many here due to space [...]
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August 2010 Special Reserve
Jul 6, 10 by
Just to give you all the time to drool and anticipate, this is the collection of Special Reserve coffees (sourced from Mercanta) en route to Ministry Grounds by the end of August…
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The Colour of Coffee
Jul 4, 10 byIn my early home roasting days, I was always jealous of home roasters in North America, because they had Sweetmarias and Thompson just seemed to be what every budding coffee geek needed (and still is!). Sweetmarias were sourcing fine quality specialty coffee when few other outlets were. Plus Thompson was posting some great info and [...]
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A Coffee classic
May 18, 10 by
If you’ve hung around the coffee geek world for any time, you’ve probably heard of a book often referred to as the ‘Bible of coffee’ – “All About Coffee” by William H. Ukers. There is no question it is a seminal work on coffee – even though it’s out of date in many respects. But [...]
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Seasonality – the highs and lows
Apr 22, 10 by
‘Seasonality’ is one of the newer buzzwords in the coffee industry. It’s really only come into play in recent times along with the increase in availability of very fine, usually single farm/estate, often microlot coffees. The high quality, small farm factors usually mean very limited supply. This, in turn means that when it runs out [...]
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Aeropress revisited
Apr 10, 10 by
The Aeropress is hardly news in the coffee world. As an economical, easy to use coffee brewing device since late 2005 or early 2006. I tried it out when they first came to Australia, and to be honest I can’t recall what I thought about it at the time! I think someone else must have [...]
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Zokoko
Apr 3, 10 by
Regular customers of Ministry Grounds will know of my connections with Dean Morgan and his coffee business. Fewer will realise that Dean’s wife, Michelle is as passionate about chocolate as Dean is about coffee. That passion is about to produce delicious fruit as their bean-to-bar chocolate making business starts to produce serious amounts of very, [...]
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Terranova – a most remarkable coffee
Apr 2, 10 by
Just added three new coffees to the store: Brazil Daterra Estate ‘Sunrise’ RFA, Utz (green or roasted) An exciting rich pulped natural bean, offering large overall complexities that make ‘Sunrise’ the perfect base for refined espressos. Tanzania AA PB (green or roasted) I know very little about this bean, and have purchased it on word-of-mouth [...]
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Picking coffee in the Dom. Republic
- Richard ManleyThanks for the update Neil.
- NeilHi Pete, Not a great deal to tell. It’s a 5Kg Roastmax Roaster – which in essence is an optioned up...
- PeteWhat can you tell us about your new roaster?
- trevorI purchased an Aeropress from you before Xmas last year. I thought it would be a handy traveller, which it...
- David LaceyI brought an Aerorpress from another source, but brought my Kyocera Grinder from you with some coffee. As...
