Coffee Plants

This is one of two coffee plants I bought earlier this year. Originally they were on the front porch in direct sunlight. I had to move them to the back patio with filtered sunlight. They were getting burned up in the direct sun. Since moving they have much more new growth. They get watered every other day and fed with every other week with Medina Hasta Gro. It's a great organic fertilizer, I use it on my tomatoes and peppers as well.  It will be several years before these plants start producing fruit. In the mean time they are very attractive plants and look nice on the patio.

Enjoying this mornings coffee

Enjoying some fresh roasted Ethiopia Organic Yirga Cheffe, Koke Coop this morning. This was roasted to a City+ and it tastes wonderful. I'm drinking this from a vintage 1970's FireKing coffee mug. If you ever see these at garage sales or thrift stores pick them up, they are worth a lot of money.

Dylan's AirSpeed shoe commercial

This is a video we shot the other day for Dylan's shoe sponsor AirSpeed. They sent him a newly released style of shoes and wanted him to shoot some pictures and video. He directed and edited it, I was the cameraman. He recently started his dream job, working at a local skateboard shop. Enjoy!

"The Sherwood" Commercial from Dylan Jones on Vimeo.

Latest coffee roast

Lately I have been roasting a "Kenya Nyeri AA Kiamabara" variety and have been enjoying it. This weekend I roasted a "Kenya Kirinyaga Karani Peaberry" and it's really good. Both are a wet processed bean and both were roasted to a full city roast. I'm still using the vintage Poppery hot air popcorn popper. I find that just using 2/3 cup is the best amount to roast, and that I need to let the popper cool down completely before roasting more. I think I have the roasting process down now, for the roast I like, which is the lighter full city. It's kind of a look, listen, smell kind of process. I stop the roast at around 455 degrees, just as it starts smoking a little. Then dump it into the cooler. It's best to let it air-out for 24 hours, but it's best to let it air-out for 2 days.

Latest coffee roast

I've recently been drinking a new variety, Colombia Gaitania "Los Pijaos de Tolima". I roasted it in the popcorn popper to a Full City roast. It took several cups to get my taste buds used to it. I've had other Colombians that I really liked so I figured why not give this one a try. It wasn't bad, the taste was pretty decent but I don't think I'd order it again. I have a Kenya Nyeri AA Kiamabara that I'm going to roast today. The African varieties have been my favorites, I hope this one can be added to my list.

Ring Bologna - locally made

I haven't been updating this blog with new coffee info because I can't seem to switch varieties. I really like the Ethiopian and Kenyan varieties that I've already blogged about. Switching from coffee for a bit, I wanted to mention something that I picked up recently. It's a locally made ring bologna from the Taylor Meat Company. I've always wanted to visit them, Taylor is only 15 miles from where I live. They are open until 5:30 during the week, Saturdays they close at 12:30. I could never make it over there on Saturday before they closed. Last week I happened to be running an errand that would take me straight through Taylor, I just had to stop. I've had their hotdogs and loved them, HEB used to carry them but not anymore. I wanted to try the ring bologna and their fresh beef sausage. I picked up 2 pounds of hotdogs, a pound of sausage, and a package of ring bologna. We had the hotdogs for dinner that night. Today I cut into the bologna and had it with the traditional saltine cracker and hot sauce. It was so good, I could have easily eaten half of the ring but didn't.

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