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Monday, September 18, 2006
Profile: Silas Moulton aka 'the Tea Cupper'
Silas formerly was a purchasor for whole foods and also does cuppings with Mark @ MEM teas. Silas currently toils away at Peet's until something better comes along. Silas met up with us shortly after the Globe article hit and has been the most enthusiatic group member. He intially sought me out because he couldn't believe there was a good barista in Boston(his own words there). Silas will begin participating on the blog a bit to touch up his writing skills for his tea blog... I'm thinking... Terroirist tea blog! -Jaime
So a month or so after I met Jaime, I got an invite to taste some coffees with him and "some friends". To be honest, I thought his coffee tasting friends might be old men with mustaches and crazy stories about cupping kenyas in the glory days, when coffee wasn't so complicated. Well, It just so happens, we are all fairly young and none of us really care for facial hair. So after getting off work, smelling like Peet's dark roast, I went to meet up with Jaime, Judson and Ben. Ben was having issues with his tricked out home machine after messing with it too much, so we headed over to Asim's to pull some coffee shots. On the way Ben explained the difference between a chow hound and a foodie and of course Jamie was practically coming to tears of joy over the thought of having tegu coffee shots. They had been hoping earlier to pull some coffee shots on Ben's machine but they couldn't get it working. By now they were anxious for the coffee they had been waiting for all day and I was still curious what the hell these coffee shots were gonna be like. So when we get to Asim's place, we come to find out his machine isn't working either. This kick-ass, awesome $8000 espresso machine just couldn't get enough pressure. So Ben and Asim start taking the thing apart and trying to figure out what was wrong. They found out the thing wasn't building enough pressure cuz there was scale build up. Ben asked Asim where his cafiza was and Asim said he didn't know what it was. So now Ben was scolding Asim and just pissed that Asim doesn't know what cafiza is. They never ended up getting it working, and Asim had other plans. So the whole walk back to the T, Ben was ranting about how Asim didn't clean his 8000 dollar machine. I thought he was crazy cuz he had been practically yelling at Asim about it. We finally just went back to Simons and pulled some shots there. Then I tasted the Terroir yirg (2005) coffee shot..... and I was hooked!!
Well it turns out Ben is a pretty cool guy and Asim should just clean his machine. Now my mouth waters at the mention of coffee shot. We taste coffee pretty often now and I am known as "The Youth Project" or "Silas the Tea Cupper". I think I would prefer Flavor Cupper though...
Silas (flavor cupper)
Silas formerly was a purchasor for whole foods and also does cuppings with Mark @ MEM teas. Silas currently toils away at Peet's until something better comes along. Silas met up with us shortly after the Globe article hit and has been the most enthusiatic group member. He intially sought me out because he couldn't believe there was a good barista in Boston(his own words there). Silas will begin participating on the blog a bit to touch up his writing skills for his tea blog... I'm thinking... Terroirist tea blog! -Jaime
So a month or so after I met Jaime, I got an invite to taste some coffees with him and "some friends". To be honest, I thought his coffee tasting friends might be old men with mustaches and crazy stories about cupping kenyas in the glory days, when coffee wasn't so complicated. Well, It just so happens, we are all fairly young and none of us really care for facial hair. So after getting off work, smelling like Peet's dark roast, I went to meet up with Jaime, Judson and Ben. Ben was having issues with his tricked out home machine after messing with it too much, so we headed over to Asim's to pull some coffee shots. On the way Ben explained the difference between a chow hound and a foodie and of course Jamie was practically coming to tears of joy over the thought of having tegu coffee shots. They had been hoping earlier to pull some coffee shots on Ben's machine but they couldn't get it working. By now they were anxious for the coffee they had been waiting for all day and I was still curious what the hell these coffee shots were gonna be like. So when we get to Asim's place, we come to find out his machine isn't working either. This kick-ass, awesome $8000 espresso machine just couldn't get enough pressure. So Ben and Asim start taking the thing apart and trying to figure out what was wrong. They found out the thing wasn't building enough pressure cuz there was scale build up. Ben asked Asim where his cafiza was and Asim said he didn't know what it was. So now Ben was scolding Asim and just pissed that Asim doesn't know what cafiza is. They never ended up getting it working, and Asim had other plans. So the whole walk back to the T, Ben was ranting about how Asim didn't clean his 8000 dollar machine. I thought he was crazy cuz he had been practically yelling at Asim about it. We finally just went back to Simons and pulled some shots there. Then I tasted the Terroir yirg (2005) coffee shot..... and I was hooked!!
Well it turns out Ben is a pretty cool guy and Asim should just clean his machine. Now my mouth waters at the mention of coffee shot. We taste coffee pretty often now and I am known as "The Youth Project" or "Silas the Tea Cupper". I think I would prefer Flavor Cupper though...
Silas (flavor cupper)
Labels: barismo, tea, tea leaf
¶ Silas Moulton 10:22 PM
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Hey Flavor Cupper, I'm happy you're still around and active. Did you ever make it through Central America?
# posted by 
: 20/9/06 7:50 AM
: 20/9/06 7:50 AM
Just a few additions/corrections =)
1. My Rituale was out of comission that day because I fried the SSR. Stupid me =(
2. The Synesso's vacuum breaker valve was broken (could not seal properly) and was leaking steam whenever pressure build up. We could still pull shots (with the steam broiler/pre-heater off) but Asim was quite stressed out at that point. Scale *might* have something to do w/ it, but I doubt it (Boston water is pretty soft...).
3. Asim did have his cleaner, but was never taught (properly) to flush it often. There was some minor issues w/ low water debit and the pump pulsing, which was a bit of a mystery at the moment.
4. I was a bit harsh on Asim (I lik eto keep my equipments on tip-top shape...), and I appologize for that =p
5. Silas' tomato is ass kicking! ;-)
1. My Rituale was out of comission that day because I fried the SSR. Stupid me =(
2. The Synesso's vacuum breaker valve was broken (could not seal properly) and was leaking steam whenever pressure build up. We could still pull shots (with the steam broiler/pre-heater off) but Asim was quite stressed out at that point. Scale *might* have something to do w/ it, but I doubt it (Boston water is pretty soft...).
3. Asim did have his cleaner, but was never taught (properly) to flush it often. There was some minor issues w/ low water debit and the pump pulsing, which was a bit of a mystery at the moment.
4. I was a bit harsh on Asim (I lik eto keep my equipments on tip-top shape...), and I appologize for that =p
5. Silas' tomato is ass kicking! ;-)
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound so critical of Asim either. Terriorist tea guy, hahaha I like that. sl28ave- central america was cool. Coffee farms are pretty much everywhere, never made it to El Injerto though...
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