Sound advice. I have heard it the other way around. to see how light you can go to find the beans taste.5 ways sounds wise.To speak of my happiness as you asked before not totally.I long to see farmers benifit as they should and coffee treated as a produce and not some dry good. Farmers and there workers work very hard.They should be better provided for. People first not consumers.Right now I'm just a Barista.A link but not the chain. Thanks for the reply. Keep doing your great work its very valuable.

HI Ken, I am marginal typer and so bare with me.THe story of my life in coffee has been a hard one and probably better told if I blog it on my page rather than in your comments. It looks like you have had an awesome adventure and life in coffee and the details could fill a good book. Coffee is an integral part of my life and I at the level of my funds and family life I am chasing this wonderful plant product.

Ken do you roast in the same way Alfred Peet had or have adopted different standards as time has gone by?