I need a map I need a big amount
so I said last week that the style would
be changing it wouldn't be the Monday to
Friday thing it will be this week but
not next week and that's because a bunch
of travel is coming up so I thought I'd
kind of roughly quickly explain where
I'm gonna go next week I leave on Sunday
and I need a map for that all right and
I'm now standing up on the counter and
we'll see if this works a little bit
better so that's what I'm doing okay so
on Sunday I leave from London and I fly
Vyra somewhere to Shanghai so I'm gonna
spend a couple days in Shanghai doing
some stuff at the book and then we're
gonna fly from there to Changsha it's
over here and then get a train to Wuhan
and then from Wu hen I'm gonna fly to
Tokyo and then from Tokyo and this is
tricky Tokyo fly down to Auckland and
then Auckland we go to Singapore and
then to Kuala Lumpur and then eventually
about Cambria I'm not quite sure what
I'm gonna do style wise I don't think
I'm going to daily vlog but it might be
a per City blog or maybe a per country
we'll see it just means that there's got
a lot of organizing and prep to do
because that's a 1718 day trip with
quite a lot of flights I think 13
different talks in that time and
lectures and workshops and like and
stuff so it's gonna be pretty hectic
which is good and a little bit
terrifying so planning very important
planning
it's a strange day but not a bad day the
morning as usual working on coffee jobs
board things on that kind of stuff
there is a lot of change coming to that
project which is good I think and then a
good catch up with a company I do a
little bit of work with it called Athena
who do the secondary fermentation of
green coffee and every time I talk to
them it feels a little bit more exciting
in terms of what possibilities there are
out there so they're doing some cool
stuff and I hope to talk more about that
in the future they're super good now I
know selling at my desk which means
probably gonna open something but I'm
not gonna open something but I'm gonna
talk about something that came in the
mail today so this is a book by a guy
called Jamie good I like his writing
about one he wrote a book that was
pretty great called authentic wined
which was talking about natural wine as
we know it now and I really liked his
approach and I'm looking for a better
word than natural and his Naturals
problematic in many ways so I liked that
he must have wrote a book called the
science of wine that I think is really
super good if you want to get into that
and understand that some more so this
book is about the science of tasting
wine and if I can't learn something
valuable from this and there is no hope
for me left in the world so super
excited to dig into that that will be
coming on some airplane rides with me
this coming week the other thing that
went up today was the video I did about
how to program Black Eagle gravimetric
machines and calibrate them and do that
kind of fun stuff I am enjoying doing
instructional videos if you have
requests for them leave them in the
comments below I can't promise I'm gonna
give you about everything there's about
a dozen lined up that I do want to make
but I'm always interested in what people
want to hear more about be it techniques
or anything else so let me know
if I'm honest this is probably the worst
bit all doing all the talks for my
trouble and that's making the
presentations in keynote or PowerPoint
whatever you like but it's just so
tedious
the only upside of presentations is I
get to take photos which is kind of good
so shooting a bunch of stuff some
espresso stuff for the gravimetric
there's a little cupping now which we're
gonna do like a UK worse this cutting
downstairs it's got a public company on
today but I didn't want to film that
looking forward to seeing how we stack
up against everyone else
so always good to taste other Roasters
coffee I'll be honest there was some
stuff there that I sort of wish we had
roasted there was some stuff there that
I'm very glad we didn't so now all of us
not just me and Fleck are gonna go to
one of our customers the political curio
Capel we're gonna drink some espresso
martinis eat some dinner and I think
that's it release that rather
and this goes back to my days as a as a
journalist you know I used to write
about the economic drain of
manufacturing jobs from the state of
South Carolina rushing around again I
now need to go and take back a van I've
just done a podcast with Benza bode my
collaborator and editor at long Barry
and now I need to drive this thing back
to the dealership because we just had it
per day to see if we liked it and I feel
like I'm rushing and then I gotta go
meet Chris and Nick from chefsteps
for dinner which is good
this is it looks like in my ton of work
a punk press
so very kindly consent the the puck
press which is now I think for a while
just gonna live down here it's very
small I was kind of impressed at how
small it was and it blows my mind that
this hasn't been a thing sooner I
remember seeing something like this it
might have been the predecessor to this
in Korea like two three years ago making
coffee there's lots of physical steps
and tamping is one that I think is
problematic because one people worry
about it unnecessarily - it's a physical
action that you can do badly and hurt
yourself and you know it's nice to have
the jewelry who doesn't love a nice
temper they're things you collect and
you end up with lots of the damn things
but I'm really okay with outsourcing
this part of the process to just
standardize it make it quick it easier
yeah it's gonna sit in the rotation in
the training room for a while and come
back to it in a few weeks and see how
we're doing
last night I saw Chris and Nick from
chefsteps we come up with some dinner
that was great they brought with them a
little gift for me which is only good
because I bought it but I think this is
the first one in the UK we've got myself
a little jewel which is very exciting
I'm pretty stoked now this is important
this is a 110 volt jewel they are not
available for Europeans how
configurations yet I'm gonna have to run
this through a so serious transformer
because it'll pull about 1300 watts
there will be European ones coming next
year but right now only us available I'm
pretty excited annoyingly my transformer
won't arrive until two more months oh I
don't get to cook with this for a while
it's so small I did work with chefsteps
for like a full month so call me biased
this is a good day for me I'm pretty
happy about this
his face became changing the day
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