MAS o Menos

A new month means a new issue of INeedCoffee. This month I give out a few tips on coffee blending for the home coffee roaster.

** Human Elephant Conflict Inside Coffee Forests
by Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira
ineedcoffee.com/08/elephant-conflict/

Due to timber logging and rampant poaching for ivory, the forest itself is in trouble. The elephant range has become more and more fragmented. Elephants are no longer safe because there is a prize on the elephants head.

** Mechanical Harvesting on a Coffee Farm
by Peter Morrissey
ineedcoffee.com/08/mechanical-harvesting/

Coffee has now been mechanically harvested for over 20 years, and while there are a few different brands of machines they are all basically the same design with the same components.

** Coffee Internship on Kona Farm
by Gary Strawn
ineedcoffee.com/08/coffee-intern/

I recently gave a farm tour for a workshop about coffee farming.  The class was attended by several Kona coffee farmers, some with quite a bit of farming experience.  They didn’t believe me when I said I do all the work myself and they unanimously decided that I need some full-time help.

** Coffee Blending For the Home Roaster
by Michael Allen Smith
ineedcoffee.com/08/coffee-blending/

Blending can be broken down into two different camps:  blending for espresso and blending for non-espresso (regular coffee).

** Coffee Talk
by Tim Schenck
ineedcoffee.com/08/coffee-talk/

I never used to drink coffee. I made it through college, the Army, work as a political campaign manager, a coffee-drinking wife, seminary, and one child. The combination of two children under the age of two and full-time work in parish ministry, however, put me over the edge.

** Ode to a Coffee Card
by Tim Schenck
ineedcoffee.com/08/coffee-card/

Through the sly smirk of a pierced lip it appears. A challenge offered; a gauntlet thrown.

** Best In Show - Where is the Remote?
by Phil Juliano
ineedcoffee.com/08/where-is-the-remote/

Where is the remote?

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