PNWG V
5th Annual
Home Roaster's Gathering
Saturday
June 16, 2007
(Tom
& Maria at
PNWG III)
This year we’re honored to again be hosting.
Kona Konnaisseur miKe mcKoffee aka Mike & Debi McGinness
PNWG V
Location is not there but here:
see GoogleMap
Phone 360 254-0179 Cell 503 449-7045
Saturday's Agenda
No real agenda just our annual Pacific Northwest Home Roaster’s Coffee Play Day! Our doors will "officially" open at Noon. Unless of course you are already here! Or still here from Friday night or... In which case we'll be here but who knows in what state of mind or attire!
No tour of Stumptown Coffee roasting operation or getting cupping edumacation this year.
If you happen to have something like you’d to see happen, shoot me an email or post about it on the List!
Added to the non-Agenda will be an espresso blending bean bar. Basically a bunch of different roasted and rested coffees running the gambit including but not limited to Aged Java, Aged Sumatra, and Monsooned Malabar for low notes, various Brazils including Yellow Bourbon for blending bases, and high notes from Ididio Misty Valley plus likely a WP Yirgacheffe ‘just cuz I really like ‘em,, at least a Kenya or two, Guatemalas, probably Rwanda and who knows what else. Oh, you can of course mix up a blend for non-espresso brewing too. J
There will also be some control espresso blend roasts provided of Tom’s Monkey & Stumptown’s Hairbender.
!New
Flash!
Discussions are in the works for a
visit from the SCAA 2007 "Best New Product:
Coffee or Tea Preparation or Serving Equipment (Consumer)" award winner. That would of course be Joe Behm and his new soon to be released Behmor 1600 one pound capacity $300 roaster! (Attending will depend on the timing of his
next trip to
We’ll have the Bricoletta for straight shots or Americanos or cappuccinos or mochas etc., (even a latte if you beg;-) plus other brewing devious available including numerous press pots, a Choreador (peasant Costa Rica coffee sock;-), 12 tasse Stainless Steel "Amore" Moka Pot, and of course the Royal Versailles Gold Plated Balance Vacuum Brewer. (Both the 50oz & 25oz Bodum Electric Santos vac’ brewers have bit the dust.) Don’t know how many additional espresso machines or what other brewing dignitaries will be visiting but there are always a slew of them! If someone must have drip brewed maybe someone will bring a TechnivormJ
I’ll be roasting at least one Kona for the days brewing plus who knows what else. Usually enough various home roast coffee show up for about 7.95 gallons per person but don’t be shy bring your current favorite, show off your roasting “stuff”!. I’ll also be creating a PNWG V espresso blend for the day anchored by “Old Brown” aged Java, thinking maybe with Brazil yellow bourbon and Guat’ bourbon. (Which I’d planned but forgot to do last year.)
During the day there’ll be munchies including veggie trays and home made dips Dave Nielson is bringing, various chips and dips, array of my smoked cheeses, crackers, biscotti and who knows what else.
Probably around 7pm or so Luau dinner will be served. Menu will include the usual fare of kalua pork, huli huli chicken and/or kalbi beef, lomi-lomi salmon, coconut milk candied Okinawa purple sweet potatoes topped with toasted macadamia nuts, sesame-ginger sugar snap peas, tossed salad, fresh tropical fruit salad and Hawaiian sweet rolls. I’ve also just been informed by this households “She Who Must Be Obeyed” that I must make Hawaiian macaroni potato salad this time so it’s added to the menu! For desserts their will of course be huapia (traditional Hawaiian coconut pudding that is firm textured and sort of wiggles like jello), Demian & Sheila volunteered to bring their version of my kona mocha cheesecake, and I’ll undoubtedly also make my pineapple macadamia nut up-side-down coconut rum cake.
Come One Come All! This is not only for
those living in the
(This of course also means you can bring non-home roasting friends and family too, no need to ask “permission”!)
RSVP ASAP to mcKona@comcast.net with total number attending.
Please specify number staying for dinner in your RSVP! Need to know for
planning purposes.
As before Debi & I have discussed it. As long as you're aware our home is NOT child proofed and children are your responsibility they are welcome! Bring their favorite DVD movies if you so desire, we have a 55" with M&K 5.1 Theater Sound, kept them happy in the past.
Nearby Hotel/Motels: lots of online sources, here's one search of hotels within 5miles. Click Here
Or a really nice place nearby that search doesn't bring up. The Heathman Lodge
Hope to see you there! (Or rather here.)
Here’s a few pics from previous PNWGs followed by links to a whole bunch of pics from PNWG I, II & III. (seemed to have temporarily “lost” PNWG IV pics)
(PNWG III)
(Oaxaca Charly checking out Alchemist’s drum prototype PNWG I)
(Kicking back on deck PNWG I)
(Cupping PNWG II at Alchemist & Penny’s)
(Cupping Stumptown visit PNWG III)
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And the links to a whole bunch more below!