5th Annual North East Regional Roasters Retreat

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Bring your tents and hammocks it's that time again for Coffee, Craft, Camping, Camaraderie

5th Annual Northeast Regional Roasters Retreat:

Where:
Ashlawn Farm / Ashlawn Farm Coffee
Lyme, Ct.

Date:
July, 23 - 25th 2010

What's in store for this years event.?!

Hands on workshops
Roast Profile Analysis
Cupping
Water Issues
Blend off
Lectures and much more

Wrap up BBQ dinner

And as always great prizes and give aways

Mike Love
email: roastit@me.com
Coffee Labs Roasters

Attn: Working industry professionals only

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Date: July 23 – July 25, 2010
Location: Ashlawn Farms, 78 Bill Hill Road, Lyme CT 06371


Friday, July 23rd
7:00 pm
Reception Dinner

Saturday, July 24th
7am - 8am
Continental Breakfast- Ashlawn Farm

8:30 -10:30 am
Terry Davis - Roasting, Cupping and Comparing Profiles
All participants will receive samples of the same green coffee to roast at their facilities on their roasting equipment. Participants will roast and log the profiles of their samples utilizing the RoastTrue profiling graph supplied with the coffee or downloaded from the website http://www.ambexroasters.com. Each sample will be brought to the NERRG meeting along with the RoastTrue Profile Log. Samples will then be cupped and ranked by all interested attendees at the NERRG July 2010 meeting. Winners will explain how they decided on the roast to be used and the profile to be followed and what they were seeking to achieve with coffee.


10:45am - 12:15pm
Bob Fagan - "Brewing & Selecting The Proper Equipment"

10:45am - 12:15pm
Andrew Blythe - Royal Coffee - Green Coffee Buying Methods

12:30 - 1:30 pm
LUNCH

1:45 - 3:45 pm
Mark Crawford - Chocolate: The Other Magical Bean

1:45 - 3:45 pm
Linda Smithers - Values and Certification to Marketing Strategy

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Skip Finley - Water Chemistry and its effect on the brewed beverage

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Terry Davis -
Cupping and Understanding Microlots
For Roasters Only!
In specialty coffee we speak of the ‘Quality Pyramid’; as the quality goes up, production is less making up the top tier of the pyramid. These are the Microlots of coffee: coffees with unique character and a higher quality than the rest of the surrounding crop.
In this cupping class will we discuss the farming, processing, selection and marketing of small select lots of the most special of specialty coffees. We will discuss terminology and taste the distinct differences in a unique cupping of 6 coffees from the same region but different plots of land and different hands.


5:30pm
FREE TIME

7:00pm
BAR-BQ


Sunday, July 25th
7:30am - 8:30am
Continental Breakfast- Ashlawn Farm Cafe’

9:00 - 10:15am
Terry Davis Roasting, Cupping and Comparing Profiles

10:30 - 12:15pm
Kathi Zollman - Beyond Blending Basics

12:30 - 1:30 pm
Bag Lunch

1:45pm
Wrap up and Raffle Give Away

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Hey All Just to keep all of you in the loop we have made some changes to the Agenda.

Roasting profile challenge. Has been eliminated and being replaced with

Terry Davis - Maintenance Class 8:30 - 10:30am

Andrew Miller - Understanding Micro-lots - 4 -5:15 pm

Tim O'brian - Understanding Direct Trade - Sunday 9 -10:15 am

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Friday, July 23rd
7:00 pm
Reception Dinner

Saturday, July 24th
7am - 8am
Continental Breakfast- Ashlawn Farm

8:30 -10:30 am
Terry Davis - Roaster Maintenance and quiz

Andrew Miller - Cupping and Understanding Microlots.
(For Roasters ONLY)

10:45am - 12:15pm
Bob Fagan - "Brewing & Selecting The Proper Equipment"

Andrew Blythe - Royal Coffee - Green Coffee Buying Methods

12:30 - 1:30 pm
LUNCH

1:45 - 3:45 pm
Mark Crawford - Chocolate: The Other Magical Bean

Linda Smithers - Values and Certification to Marketing Strategy

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Skip Finley - Water Chemistry and its effect on the brewed beverage

Andrew Miller - Cupping and Understanding Microlots.
(For Roasters ONLY)

5:30pm
FREE TIME

7:00pm
BAR-BQ

Sunday, July 25th

7:30am - 8:30am
Continental Breakfast- Ashlawn Farm Cafe’

9:00 - 10:15am
Tim O’Brian - Direct Trade - What is it, How its done

10:30 - 12:15pm
Kathi Zollman - Beyond Blending Basics

12:30 - 1:30 pm
Bag Lunch

1:45pm
Wrap up and Raffle Give Away

Contact Mike Love
Coffee Labs Roasters
roastit@me.com
914-332-1479 office