monochrome scarab lineart

2026-02-06,
of coffee and scales

Yew, Friday, 6 February 12026 HE
2026-02-06 | 26B06 | 2026-037 | 2461078
2026-W06-5 | Q1 | Primavera

winter sycamore, San José, California

2014-02-01 – Apple iPhone 4
winter sycamore, San José, California

S3RL – “Neon Genesis” ↗

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while there are certainly plenty of people in the world who know a whole lot more about coffee than I do (if you ever get a chance at an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, absolutely go for it), I have to question the level of micromanagement that has been introduced by modern coffee experts – it’s one thing if you are reviewing beans on a daily basis and need to maintain a consistent baseline between pours, the vast majority of us are not reviewers – which is to say, there should not be any need for stopwatches and digital scales for your daily morning cup

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