Hello! I am Ian Riley, intrepid (I hope) coffee roaster at Bittersweet Cafe, here in cyberspace to keep you updated on our coffee program and answer queries and comments pertaining to that most invigorating of hot, infused beverages.
To recap: We began roasting coffee in August 2009 with our inaugural drip blend, Faultline, followed shortly thereafter by our first Single Origin offering, Finca La Florencia from Guatemala, and our espresso blend, Long Day's Journey.
We are currently serving Faultline (a blend of Sumatran and Ethiopian coffees), Long Day's Journey (mainly Brazilian dry processed coffee with a splash of Kenyan for spice and verve) and a single origin Brazilian from Fazenda Aurea in the Cerrado region of Brazil.
For more information on our coffee, or to just buy a whole bunch of it, please visit our webpage!
We are currently hustling and bustling here at the warehouse to get a weekly espresso service going out of the garage door. Hopefully, we will be supplying the people of Berkeley with top-notch espresso within a month.
In the mean time, I attached some pictures (which are, for reasons beyond my comprehension, posted at the top of this post) of our 2 group Astoria lever machine in mid refurb. I fondly refer to this machine as 'one-eye' due to it's missing fork cowling on one group. One-eye is a lot like the basketball 'Wilson' to my Tom Hanks in the much-ballyhooed and subsequently much-forgotten movie Cast Away in that we have a lot of one-sided, slightly psychotic conversations.
By the way, that green mineral deposit lining the inside of the boiler (called 'scale') is one of several reasons to use only filtered water for your espresso adventures.
Happy Brewing!
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