Sea salt roasted Yemen Bani coffee

5-10-2017 9:26 am

A Japanese double-layer tea drainer makes easy French Press coffee brewing.

Coffee in the Rain

1-11-2017 8:39 am

The rain makes everything crystal clear including my home-roasted sea salt Yemen coffee

Hand Roasted Sea Salt Ethiopian Coffee

Who but God  

Could make the day  

And softly put  

The night away? 

   

Helen Steiner Rice    

"Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun."  

Psalm 74:16    

Today, give thought and thanks to our Creator for the light of day and comfort of night.

1-30-2017

12-18-2016

Coffee and Mantou

Sea salt roasted Yemen coffee

Mantou 

Long long time ago someone asked if this was Mexican cheese?  He had never seen this Chinese steamed pastry before which is widely eaten by northern Chinese in China and also gets popular later in Taiwan. 

9-23-2016 12:19 pm 

Sea Salt Roasted Yemen Coffee 9-11-2016 7:55 am

9-11-2016 7:55 am 

In remembrance of 911 in year of 2001

Coffee with morning sunlight

8-28-2016 7:52 am

Hand-made mantou

8-26-2016

Hand-made mantou (Noodle House 麵香園 in Monterey Parks) The lady owner 老闆娘 had a big smile when I asked to buy 5 of them again. She said, "I thought only us northern people eat mantou, but you like it, too." I told her that when we were in the military training, the breakfast every morning included soybean milk and mantou which were hand-made by veteran soldiers from China. Naturally I have developed a taste for such a pastry delicacy." (note: the owner's family are from Tian-jin 天津, neighboring with Ching-dao 青島 the German occupied city before 1949)

Sea Salt Roasted Yemen Coffee

Sea Salt Roasted Yemen Coffee

8-2-2016 6:38 am

Color temperature shifted

Yemen Mokha Ismaili

Description  Ismaili is a "fabled" origin. Even in Yemen, in a local market in Sana'a, the spice-tea-qishr-coffee vendor told me his green beans (much of it broken "triage" coffee, mixed with cardamom pods) were truly special. "It's Ismaili coffee, " he said. I didn't mention that I slept on the floor of a villagers house the night before, in the mind-boggling vertical mountains of Ismaili, a landscape etched in stone with ancient terraces lined with ghat and coffee trees. The cup has always had a big spicy character, not the fruitiest Yemen coffee but with a unique flavor profile. It's amazing, with all the issues in Yemen, we were even able to get coffee exported. But here it is, cupping as well as ever. 

It's Yemeni coffee, and as such, there's a real mix of bean size and quality. This equates to some roast variance (I'll even say 'complexity') in the lightest roast levels, and roast equalizing somewhere in the Full City range. City+ roasts show a mix of pungent papaya, dried banana, and raw cacao nib smells. More developed roasts move into scent of raisin and Turkish fig, along with some spice complexity, and fresh tobacco. The wet aroma is intense, with notes of baked fruits, pumpernickel bread, burned sugar, layered cocoa smells, and a sweet leathery accent. Yemeni coffee can be quite intense, and I think show best closer to Full City roast level. There's dried fruit in the cup like tamarind, apricot, and banana, and a pecan pie aroma. It has rustic sweetness, what you find in date sugar, brown rice syrup, and black strap molasses. There is a woody aspect too, like aromatic bark or sweet smoke from hickory. Full City+ roasts have a much more intense flavor profile with strong bittersweet notes throughout. Layered cacao flavors define the finish alongside hints of winey fruits. Dark roasts make a nice single origin (SO) espresso, and would also be a great component to an espresso blend. Whether cup or SO espresso, like all Yemeni coffee, Ismaili benefits from a few days rest. 48 hours is great but we found 72 hours to be best. This is even more true for espresso. With Ismaili it's fun to try a melange of 1/3 City+ roast and 2/3 FC or FC+ roast, either for drip or espresso.

https://www.sweetmarias.com/product/yemen-mokha-ismaili-5110

Best coffee + best hi-fi

Morning After Rain - Sea Salt Roasted Yemen Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee 

66 Mint St, San Francisco, CA 94103 

Phone:(510) 653-3394

Taiwan Handcrafted Wedding Cookies

11-10-2015

Sea salt roasted Yemen coffee

11-12-2015

急火快炒 （Ethiopian way of roasting）5th try

Very good taste - probably can't be much better than this. 

These are some Brazil bean my college classmate saved for me from last year. 

They are on its way to Lafayette, CA for my auntie to brew.

I said it before and would not hesitate to repeat. 

This coffee cup set of 6 was purchased in Champaign, Illinois in my graduate school days.

This has a rich body and nice aroma with some hint of acidity.

I poured the brew from the Hario glass over a tea drainer which is positioned right above 

this coffee cup. This cup is also well insulated (chemical engineer's way of doing things).

Practice! Practice! Practice! (the way to Carnegie Hall) 

As you see, color is pretty even. This has something to do with the French (cast iron) pan.

Quick and still Watchful 大火急炒

12 minutes total time of roasting Ethiopian coffee green bean 

with Vietnamese sea salt in a French pan

(good)

This new sea salt roasting process is in light of roasting coffee in the Ethiopian way 

using only 7 minutes.

6 minutes total time of roasting Ethiopian coffee green bean 

with Vietnamese sea salt in a French pan

(burned)

3-28-2015