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Ridgeback Estate Coffee

Challenging my disdain for Australian-grown coffee again, I have the chance to chance to roast up some promising beans from Ridgeback Estate in far north Queensland.
The description is promising and the sample roast looks good…

Comment [2] | Posted: 27 June 08
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Coelho's Gold Monsooned Malabar

If you have never come across a Monsooned Malabar before, this is a very unusual bean.
This a high quality coffee grown in a hilly range in India called the Western Ghats under ideal coffee-growing conditions.
Then the monsooning process start…

Comment [3] | Posted: 3 June 08
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New Beans and blends - November 2007

Coffee cherry

Just a bit of an update on some new (and not so new!) beans added to the Ministry Grounds stash in the last month or so:

Comment | Posted: 12 November 07
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Ministry Grounds Blend

I openly admit to being pretty new to the art of blending coffee beans. I’ve been experimenting with blending for about six months or so (at time of writing), but I’ve already developed a huge respect for those who produce complex, tantilising, constantly changing – yet still the same coffee blends.
My basis for blending is very simple: [more…]

| Posted: 1 January 06
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HAB Decaf Espresso blend

Until I tasted this blend, I was a decaf scoffer!
But this blend (pre-blended by the distributors) is actually very drinkable.

Comment | Posted: 26 December 05
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Coffea Arabica