Atomic Cafe Coffee Roasters
Newsletter Number 3

After a long wait, we've finally put together a new newsletter. Obviously, keeping the webstore up-to-date should be a top priority, but the final stages of moving roasting operations to our new warehouse space and the addition of a new family member for our head roaster/webmaster (it's a boy!) has meant even some top priorities got rather neglected. Our apologies. But let's get to the info you're reading for:

For about five years now we've been an in-store roasterie with a small, 7-kilo roaster in the side room of our Beverly, MA cafe. While still a small operation, we have grown to the point that keeping up with production on that little machine got pretty difficult! At last, we've moved all of our roasting operations to our Salem, MA warehouse space where we are roasting on a 24-kilo roaster, pictured above with yours truly. The wide-angle lens used for the photo makes the roaster appear pretty small but it's actually a huge step up in capacity (I'm sure I'll eventually get less distorted photos on our website or in a future newsletter) and the transition from the small machine has gone quite well. Duplicating our old roast profiles only proved a challenge at small batches, but I've worked those out too and find that the quality of our roasts is every bit as excellent as they ever were - thanks go out to the roaster manufacturer Diedrich for making machinery so remarkably consistent even between dramatically different sizes (we also use a small one-lb machine for sample roasting which you can see in the right side of the above photo).

The Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Koke we have been enjoying for a few weeks now. It is so impressively floral and elegant at times it's akin to drinking a sweet herbal tea. This is one of our head roaster's personal favorites.
The Mwurire (yes, we struggle to pronounce that as well!) is the first coffee we've ever sourced from Burundi and it's an excellent one that we've just started serving in our Beverly, MA cafe. Crisp and complex but very approachable.
Costa Rica Rio Negro is brought to you by the same brokers that manage and farm the famous La Minita coffee but, while also exactingly produced, this coffee is very different. Dry cocoa and herbaceous tones round out an otherwise bright coffee.

We also just brought in three more coffees (a lot of new coffees all at once, I know!) but we have yet to dial in their roast profiles. Once we do I'll update the store and send out another short newsletter to announce them. Two are very fruity, dry-processed, exotic coffees. The one is an Ethiopia Sidamo and the other is a Uganda. And the third coffee is a citrusy, sweet Rwanda. Stay posted!

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