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- The roaster. This glass hole, through which you can see the unroasted, green coffee beans, is called a 'sight glass.'
- Rodolfo Cruz, smelling to check if the roast is complete.
- Once Rodolfo decides the beans are done roasting, he dumps them into this fanning element to cool.
- Bags of Bella Donnovan, Blue Bottle's biggest seller.
- The coffee bean is inside the parchment of the beans in the bottom left cup. Shaken, they sound like maracas. You can see that beans are green pre-roast.
- Bennett's favorite tool, a bronze Takahiro kettle, that he used while competing last year in the Brewer's Cup, in Santa Cruz.
- The "dry smell" during Sunday's public cupping
- Coffee brewing for the "wet smell."
- Breaking the crust of grinds to smell the delicious gasses trapped inside.
- Pulling single-origin espresso at the Mint Blue Bottle location.
- An SG-120, a take on a gibraltar.
- Preparing a siphon of coffee at the Mint location.
- Checking for correct temperature.