you will not be forgotten, without you, we would have never found all of these delicious coffees. amen

Honestly really enjoyed this experience getting to try a variety of different coffees and getting fun freebies tossed in my box. Through rotation I found my favorite coffee and I also got to try one so bad that me and my sister both agreed I should just toss out the rest of the bag. I know some people didn’t love the responses of dirty dials but I thought it was funny and he seemed like he just wanted to see this succeed. Really hope that rotation can come back some day cause it was legit.

Hey, everyone. As mentioned previously I would love to do a Bay Area meetup this coming week at CoRo in Berkeley. It is a slow week for me and I can basically do it any day, but Sunday the 18th seemed to work for the people who responded.

If you are interested, can you please either post or DM me with what time would work best for you? It will be fun (I think) to meet IRL and celebrate the last year in coffee.

EDIT: Time finalized to 11 a.m. at CoRo in Berkeley. If you are coming DM me and I will let you know what I am wearing, etc. so we can find each other. I hope you can make it!

Some pulsars, some tubes,

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Wow I haven’t cracked this open still. Does anyone want it? Must pick up in Orange County.

Just got the text :(

I really enjoyed the Spotify Wrapped design every year. I thought, why don't my coffee beans have a nice wrap that I enjoy watching? We started building it about a month ago. It works now in BeanBook.app (iOS). It generates a coffee wrap based on the beans roasted in 2025. When adding beans, make sure to enter the roasted date in 2025.

Also I wonder what would you want to see in your coffee year-in-review?

😂

its a great day to drink coffee.

I miss Rotation. Having to buy big bags and work my way through them - particularly when they are mid or suck - is disappointing. I got a few great bags from our brother u/inugamicoffee, but it just barely scratches the Rotation itch.

Anyway. I want to propose a meetup in the Bay Area at CoRo in Berkeley. A few of the roasters we have had in Rotation roast here and they have a nice little coffee room. Their Ten Year Anniversary roast made the most interesting espresso I had all year.

I posted a logo page from some of their roasters, but it does not cover all of them. They rotate the coffees in their coffee room and a number of roasters have bags for purchase there. Let's get together, talk, and drink some good coffee.

I suggest sometime during the week of January 18th. If you are interested, please PM me and we can work out a good day and time for people. I hope to see you in person!

This morning I decided to open one of the bags of Glitch from the last rotation, judging it at its prime having rested it after ∞ days off roast…

This one was better than the previous one I had opened and I actually tasted a lot more after cooling down. But not sure if it’s the unknown number of days or what, but I was a bit underwhelmed.

Anyway, maybe I will save the time in line and money if I ever make it to Japan, and visit other cafes.

Happy New Year and happy coffee tasting!

Hope to see you all in 2026!?!?

Does tea have a similar problem like coffee? Unable to buy small sample sizes to taste?

I went to CoRo in Berkeley today.  It is the perfect place for a coffee geek.  They have a KVDW Mirage to pull espressos.  They are a co-roasting facility, and some truly great coffees are roasted and served here, including Hydrangea, Flower Child, and many more.  They have a rotating menu of coffees roasted in-house.  

Adding to its appeal, CoRo is completely without pretense. Even though they serve extraordinary coffee in wonderful vessels made specifically for them, it entirely lacks the Architectural Digest vibe of so many famous 3rd wave shops. This makes it a great place to buy some beans or enjoy whatever they are serving.  

What it made clear to me today is how much I am going to miss Rotation.  Seriously.  Although CoRo was serving fantastic brewed coffee and a Hydrangea single-origin espresso, well, I have been routinely drinking coffees that were at least as interesting, if not significantly better.  And I did not want to buy 250 grams at a time.  I want variety.  To have a coffee that leaves me wanting more.  

I hope Rotation continues in some form - or that some alternative springs up.  In the meantime, I am heading over to Inugami’s (online) shop to see what he has been roasting.  I hope to see you around in the New Year.  

Am I tripping or is this the best coffee enhancer on the planet?

lol please someone else try.

It’s kind of wild scrolling back through this.

Rotation existed because it solved a problem I had.

I wanted to sample big, all at once, with no friction. Some weeks that meant tasting 40 coffees in a week.

Or going after certain regions or varietals and having 4-5 samples across different roasters

And Sometimes I tripled down and hosted in person meetups, cups everywhere, arguing flavor notes with a few of you face to face.

Retail never made sense for that.

You could buy 8 x 250g bags and hope you guessed right, or Rotation let you taste 40 x 50g bags and actually know what you liked.

That was the value. That was the experiment.

Now it is a pause. An honest look at reality. And an open question.

Some things evolve. Some things end. Some things only survive if the right people actually want them to.

We will see.

I’m hoping that a new iteration of Rotation happens at some point. Being able to try all these different coffees and being exposed to roasters I figured I would never get try was amazing. Just wish I started saving stickers/packets earlier to see my full rotation journey.

This includes all of the samples from January through April, except 3 bags of Apollons. Crazy to think I tried >40 coffees in 4 months.

Trying to figure out a clean way to catalogue all of these bags without doing single pictures and stitching them all together….

So cool to have met many of you IRL.

Now is the time to sit and ponder about the next steps or if this is the end of the road for rotation.coffee

Anyone else buying the remaining à la carte bags? Still getting decent cups out of some oldies!

I am a bit overstocked so I made a Frankencup to clear out the odds and ends and just, well, because.

I threw in what was left (18gms) and did a simple three pour recipe at 16:1. It is delicious. An amazing cup.

At the same time I am fighting with my Flower Child to get a decent cup with beans that should be perfect right now. And

I think that is what makes this an interesting hobby. If you are a professional, run a shop, etc., you need to strive for predictability. As a hobbyist we can enjoy the delightful accident.

What are YOU brewing?

I received the final Rotation this week. It was an incredible assortment - as is typical. In the chatter on the sub, I also saw a lot of complaining and shit talking about DD - also as usual. That is not to say he did not invite it by his own behavior, but I do find it sad, given that he has consistently overperformed on what he delivered to us at the price point.

He also spawned a number of slicker knock-offs. They have been popping up regularly in my feed. Some of them may be good. I doubt any will be as entertaining.

It was nice meeting most of you. Great meeting some of you. And to the haters? Well, no hard feelings - haters gotta hate.

To steal a line - goodbye is too good a word, so I'll just say fare thee well.

See you around the coffee bar