I’m thrilled to announce that our newest piece of coffee machinery arrived earlier this week.  It’s an infrared roaster that will allow me to roast 35lbs per batch.  This will be a dramatic improvement over the current production capacity and I’m excited to start roasting on this beauty!
 
Of course, before that’s possible we have to [...]

“Mork calling Orson. Come in Orson.  This is Mork from Ork….my roast is ready, shozbot!”  (I’ll dispense with the Mork & Mindy jokes after this post.) As some of you already know, the Mörkrost has been completed.  In honor of the blacksmith shop founders I’ve decided to call it the Holmberg & Johnson Swedish [...]

Happy Groundhog’s Day!

For some people, today is a meaningless day just like any other day.  To me, it’s kind of my own internal New Years Day.  Major holidays seem to skew my perception of time but Groundhog Day is always an unexpected holiday, making it a good bookend for the last 365 days.
Anyway, in case [...]