Second Crack Notes

About

Cheap fixes first: clean it, tighten it, wait a day, then decide whether it needs replacing. It took us a full spring to notice that the simplest batches were also the ones people asked about. We keep meaning to write a proper guide to roasting; until then, these pages will have to do.

A Saturday at the cupping table taught us more than three weeks of reading about it.

When and where

DayPlaceWho
Tuesday eveningThe kitchen benchby arrangement
Thursday eveningThe corner shelfmembers
Tuesday eveningThe corner shelfopen to all
Tuesday eveningThe cupping tableby arrangement

Half the fun of roasting is the hour afterwards, when friends compare what went wrong. We photograph every batch from the same spot, which makes the bad ones easy to find later.