New Kenya Gichathaini is available now in the limited edition steel can.

Super juicy, grapefruit, chocolate, hibiscus and stone fruit.  This is a very bright, clean, extremely complex Kenya.  Not for the timid.

Blind Assessment: Softly roasty aroma with hints of aromatic wood and molasses. Smooth, balanced and chocolaty in the cup with complications of orange and fresh-cut wood. Simplifies in the finish with the wood note lingering.

Notes: This coffee was certified organically grown and decaffeinated by the “Swiss Water Process” method, which does not involve use of solvents. Although a logo indicating “100% Fair Trade” appears on the bag, the absence of the trademarked Fair Trade seal indicates this coffee is not certified by TransFair USA, the sole American certifier for the Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO). Doma is, however, affiliated with the buyers’ group Cooperative Coffees as well as the Fair Trade Federation, a membership (rather than certifying) organization devoted to “providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.” Doma Coffee Roasting specializes in organic and Fair-Trade certified coffees and takes pride in a rigorous program of recycling and environmentally responsible business practices. The Doma slogan is “Coffee/Culture/Meaning.” Visit www.domacoffee.com or call 208-773-0066 for more information.

Who Should Drink It: Gentle, chocolaty dark-roast decaf with organic credentials.

We are working on starting a chapter of the VPS here.  They are an excellent group whose purpose is to preserve our vinyl music heritage by fostering active, all inclusive community building amongst the passionately interested and curious to promote enjoyment and education relating to vinyl records, record collecting, record playing and all associated matters of analog musicology regardless of listening tastes.

The Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho was founded on the following principles and respectfully asks its members to adopt them and embrace them as their own.

1. Honor the importance of music as an art form
2. Listen actively and with intention
3. Respect others and their musical choices
4. Maintain an open mind and a curious ear
5. Choose vinyl whenever there’s a musical choice to be made
6. Preserve our vinyl heritage by caring for and about vinyl records
7. Recognize your ownership of the Society by actively influencing its direction
   and development
8. Evangelize the vinyl life and your role as an Ambassador for the Society at
   every opportunity
9. Share your vinyl history, knowledge and passion
10. Support your local independent record merchants

Let us know if you are interested in getting involved with a new chapter here, or if you just want to listen to some vinyl.

Our friends at Sonofresco and Loring SmartRoast have asked us to check out their tabletop Commercial Coffee Roaster to see how it works as a sample roaster for our Loring Kestrel S35 SmartRoaster.

So far, we have found that it closely duplicates the roast levels and taste profiles that we get from our Loring.  It easily roasts a standard sized green bean sample and can even go up to 1 pound to experiment with roast levels.  Roast level is easily adjusted, and roast times are about 12-13 minutes (very similar to the Kestrel S35).

Look for some new coffees coming soon.

We just got a new toy in the lab.  A LaMarzocco Linea Paddle Group.   This thing has manual preinfusion and PID temperature control.

We have been testing different temperatures with all of our espressos…what a difference a half a degree makes!

We will post some results soon, but this machine is pulling the best shots we have tasted in quite a while.

Come by the roastery if you want to find out what the perfect DOMA shot should taste like.

Oh, yeah, it steams some pretty good milk, too…

Marco has worked for many months coming up with a new espresso blend and finally it is here…

We have spent hours roasting, blending tasting to get the perfect blend.  It is dark, bold, rich and chocolately. Check it out today…it will blow your mind.  Available now on-line.

By the way, marco has been slaving away to create this perfect blend and who knows what will happen if you dont buy it.  we might have to send him back to the coffee farm in Brasil for another few months to work on his mustache.

We are on our last bags of Mexico Organic and Brasil Organic.  This will be the last week they are available.

We have been busy cupping lots of coffees to try and find a great replacement.  Should be out soon.

Also this week we are releasing our new espresso blend, “Marco’s Organic Espresso”.  Try some today and experience the dark side of espresso.  Smooth, dark, rich and chocolately…fair trade and organic, too.

DOMA is launching our new website with a contest.  Check out the poster for more details (it will get bigger if you click on it).  Free coffee for a year?  Good enough?  Remember, we still trade coffee for vinyl or schooling us in pinball…

Thanks to Ben Tobin for the excellent video.