Crazy Coffee Carnival

So Aaron and Beniy were kind enough to include me an evening of home-roasted, home-brewed espresso and good conversation last night. We used Beniy's manual espresso machine, which looked something like this -->.

We tried a few different origins: Antigua and Hue Hue Tenango (both from Guatemala - very bright and aromatic), and a Brazilian bean, which was a bit darker and more flavorful. We also drank some custom blends they the guys put together.

Up until this point, we were just drinking straight espresso. We were about to try some of the coffees with milk, but during the last shot disaster struck...

Beniy was pulling the shot slowly, but firmly as Aaron and I watched intently, and right as the shot was finishing, the handle on the espresso machine snapped of and scared the holy living hell out of us. Needless to say, that pretty much nixed the cappuccino idea.

Had a hell of a good time hanging out with those guys. Discussions of our upcoming podcast program were fruitful, hopefully something will materialize in the next few weeks.