Getting some hot weather again. High of 78° today. I just roasted some Costa Rica La Pastora coffee beans. I’m slowly working through a 10 pound sampler that I received from a new supplier.

Good evening folks. We enjoyed a nice relaxed day today, but with nicer cool weather this weekend we will be working outside.

Void to hear Ray I just got 6 18oz bags of Dunkin’s finest medium roast beans.

Out of curiosity I just checked my brewing ratio. I use 24g of ground beans to 566g of water. In your opinion Ray, is that weak or fairly good?

LOL, I'm a heathen. I just use two heaping scoops of coffee and a pot O'water. The spoon doesn't stand up but you aren't going to see through it.

Morning yard!

I think we are mostly done with the heat here on to milder weather. If I can motivate myself today I'll start reroofing a storage shed today.

Supposed to be sunny and a high of 77 here today. MY KIND OF WEATHER!

Good afternoon, Yard.

Afternoon

It has been a productive day so far. I got the old roofing shingles removed and cleaned up. I got all the old nails and staples off the roof. I'm going to take a little break and get the tar paper up and stapled down. I might even get a start on putting some new shingles up.

I have never done roofing tiles before. I figured getting the old roof off would be the hard part. It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. A flat bladed shovel did the trick pretty quickly. Plus there is a pretty heavy pitch on most of the roof. Definitely safe from the Secret Service

Just don't invite President Trump to do a rally there.

LOL, PK


I got the tar paper up. So far it hasn't been too bad a job.

After church tomorrow I'll probably mark my chalk lines and start nailing down some shingles.

Then on to the next project I can get done before the leaves start falling.

The SCA's (Specialty Coffee Association) guidelines to achieve the Golden Cup standard is 1:18. One gram of coffee to 18 grams of water. So 24 g of coffee would use 432 g of water. So your ratio would be on the weaker side. But the ratio is just a guide. Use what tastes the best for you. I like strong coffee so I use 18.5 g of coffee for 200 g of water. About twice as strong as yours.

At least you are grinding your beans now.