Another 1000kg of green coffee arrived today, and I roasted 9 full batches in the 30kg roaster - I'll do the math for you that's 270kg green coffee in but because roasting coffee dries it out the weight drops around 18%. 9 back to back roasts is pretty much a whole day by the time you cool and destone each batch - that extra time spent destoning the coffee is worth it though.
This little collection is all the stones my destoner has removed from the coffee I have roasted. While roasted coffee is ground and then filtered - so nobody is going to ingest a stone it would be filtered out while brewing, only heavy duty commercial grinders are powerful enough to chew through stones like this. If I sell a kilo of coffee beans with one of these bad boys in to someone with a small domestic bean to cup coffee machine or simple grinder the stone will jam the burr's and burn out the grinder motor - and as you would expect my customer will be sending me the repair bill.
How do stones end up in green coffee? Well it is simple really, coffee is dried out after harvesting on patios like this
Once it has dried it is collected up, processed and bagged - but however in depth the sorting of beans goes the odd stone is easily collected up and packed with the green coffee.
When this 30kg roaster arrived 1st April this year I had to wonder how much I would use it with Cornavirus closing most of my commercial customers between March and July - with many not reopening in July even because with 12 weeks of no income they had become bankrupt. But with a solid e-commerce background my business just shifted from large bulk commercial orders to many, many small domestic orders as people were forced to work from home but still wanted the fresh ground coffee experience they were used to from cafes. It's been harder work for lower margin - but at least I have been trading all year and still in business - many others have been far less lucky.
It's all about that daily grind (pun intended), and while 2020 has been the hardest working year of my life - I can't complain because Coronavirus has decimated vast numbers of wholesale businesses - shutting hospitality businesses has crippled them but at least they have Furlough staff payments to ease the pain - but the businesses who sell to hospitality - cafe's restaurants, hotels, leisure centres, theme parks - they are the forgotten collateral damage with no Government support - paying staff wages does not help a warehouse full of stock with nobody to sell it to.
Anyway while the future is bleak, at least I have Christmas Blend 2020! An exotic mix of Indonesia Old Brown Java, Indian Monsoon Malabar, El Salvador and Thailand Arabicas. Smokey and spicy with fruity undertones and a dark chocolate finish. I've taken it a little dark this year to give a richer cup - it's so good I might just have to drink it all myself!
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