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Roasting Coffee Beans Locally – Part 3

By on April 23, 2010 in Business, FP, People

After Mira went through the how the roasting process starts and some interesting information about where the beans come from, we now get to see the final stages of the process. This is the stage where she needs to carefully watch and listen to the beans so that they are roasted just right. As she continuously checks the beans you can see their progression through the stages because of how dark they become and in some cases how much oil is on them.

Mira also explains to us about how the beans are cooled when roasting and how Yellowknife’s famous power outages can be a hazard to the roasting process. At a certain temperature, Coffee Beans, will actually heat themselves. Meaning if the cooling fan is shut off, the beans will keep getting hotter and hotter. When this happens they can get to a point where the beans will actually burst in to flames, and she tells us about when this has happened to her.

Finally we get to see the beans done the roasting process. Watch the video for full details.

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Have any thoughts on coffee beans, roasting or coffee in general? We’d love to hear them, leave us a comment below.

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Roasting Coffee Beans Locally – Part 2

By on March 16, 2010 in Business, FP, People

In the first part of this series Mira Hall shows us how roasting raw beans works and begins the process. In this part of our Roasting Coffee Beans Locally series she explains to us about where coffee beans come from, who consumes the most, the different types of beans, how pricing is done and more.

I knew there was a lot more behind coffee beans than them just being shipped to a factory, roasted and then made into coffee but I didn’t know what to expect. Coming out of it you actually have a better appreciation of how coffee comes to be.

Mira will go through a consumption chart as well as an industry chart and a chart they explains bean flavour aspects. Ironically, the country which produce more coffee beans actually consume less. Here is part 2:

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Roasting Coffee Beans Locally – Part 1

By on March 10, 2010 in Business, FP, People

DSC_0174 Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to find out what it takes to Roast Coffee Beans. Being able to Roasting Coffee Beans in the north is a rare trade. Mira Hall is one of only a hand full in the Northwest Territories and Yukon that have the trade. At this point it doesn’t look like anyone in Nunavut is doing it.

Most of us enjoy a good cup of coffee in the morning, whether it is from home, Tim Horton’s or one the downtown coffee shop; but we don’t often think about where the coffee comes from or how it ends up as the hot liquid in our cups. Importing coffee beans from around the world is only one step in the process and we’ll cover it in another part of this series. In this video post (Part 1) Mira explains the process of roasting the coffee beans in the roaster and how she does it. She talks about how the beans are kept fresh after being roasted and how soothing roasting beans can be.

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Part 2 & 3 will be the actual roasting of the beans and a look at where the beans come from. Leave your feedback below.

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Episode 12: Events Are Happening

By on October 28, 2009 in FP, YKP
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In this weeks episode, we listen to a couple songs by Yellowknife’s own Giant Con and Hello Paisley. The reason for this is because both bands will be playing at the torch ceremony happening on Nov. 5. There will also be some more performances happening at Javaroma on the same night. So once you get your fill down at city hall, head inside for a warm drink.

We also talk about the concert happening at NACC this coming Thursday. All the proceeds from this concert will go to help find a beat breast cancer.

The Fog in Yellowknife and the Javaroma WiFi were among other things on topic. All that and more.

See you all next week.

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Javaroma WiFi is Back

By on October 22, 2009 in Cafes, City

This morning I sent out a message saying that Javaroma WiFi was back. At the time I had no idea how truthful that was so I wanted to check for myself.

Upon arriving at Javaroma just after lunch I was greeted by the manager, who I knew. I asked him if the rumors were true, was WiFi really back. Sure enough he said with a smile, it was. My next question was the one I cared about more, price. Months ago when WiFi was first taken out I suggested that they charge for it to discourage people from abusing the service, later I changed my outlook. The proper way to do it would be to continue offering the service for free but with limitations. Such as no downloading.

Well that is exactly what Javaroma has now done. Now, I unfortunately didn’t stay long enough to test it out, but was told that there would be no downloading only browsing online. Which is fine by me, what ever keeps the costs down while making customers happy.

So Yellowknifers who enjoy getting out of the office or house to do some relaxing internet browsing you are once again able to.

Are you going to take advantage of the free WiFi? Well if you do, I’ll see you there!

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