A trip to Idaho

Last week I got the most awesome opportunity to join two of my girl friends on a little over night to Idaho. My friend Marcia is opening a coffee shop and they wanted to go check out a coffee roasting place in Boise. It was so much fun. The pictures below are of a man that has been roasting coffee for 15 years at this shop. The shop only has two roasters and they start the process at 4 in the morning and roast all day. Then ship coffee out all over the US. I can't remember this man's name but you could just see the passion in his eye's as he roasted these beans. He hand checked each bean it was very sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

Baby Kade loved the roasters. He had a hard time keeping his eyes off them.

 

 

Did you know that coffee beans are green before they are roasted. I didn't. They get shipped in big burlap bags then they roast the beans and bag them to be shipped to the coffee shops.

 

This is Dave's coffee shop. He owns the roasting shop. It was a quaint little shop and everyone seemed to know him. It was a simple place not super fancy but the coffee and chai was truly the best I have ever had. Marcia decided that she is going to use this coffee in her shop. Yummy!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Just checking out how they roast the coffee beans.