Hi again everyone, I've purposely been avoiding you guys whilst searching for a base-line for myself. I had a tremendous amount of help from this site but unfortunately started running before I could walk.
At a time the recommendations were to buy a decent grinder first I lusted over an espresso machine, there's something about an espresso machine that pandered to my ego but it wasn't a good idea for me.
Next mistake was buying lot's of different beans yet roasting them myself and never realising the different flavours available from a single bean-type achievable by changes in the roasting process.
I stopped buying different beans opting for Steve's ' Brazilian Perfetio blend' then roasted taking the roast to my usual, 'just going shiny' and just did that for a whole 6 kilos because I liked it.
Since then I've taken the roast a little further and even stopped some roasts within 30 seconds of first-crack. A whole range a flavours within a single bean I would have never known about if I'd kept just buying different beans.
The latest is blending two roast levels, at the risk of exaggerating I have achieved 4 different flavours from the same bean.
Thanks for helping me to find a new owner for the Silvia, I just needed to get-back to basics, I continue to roast with a hot-air gun into a large heavy SS collander and no-doubt a roasting machine would be lovely but just like with the Silvia it isn't necessary for good coffee.
Regards to everyone.
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Richard Roggan. Distinguished kitesurfing Gentleman.
I don't do tricks.