What does “roast level” mean?
When I first started roasting as a business, I did a lot of research into what each roast level meant. There is no set standard is what I found out. It is very subjective. There are fancy, expensive tools that…
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The Spoon Theory
At the beginning of the year, I made a goal of writing a blog post every week. It has been very hard to write this week, as the shop has been very busy with behind-the-scenes work. As an AuDHD, I…
Flavored Coffee Beans
Early on roasting beans for myself, it was very popular to buy flavored coffee beans. French Vanilla or Hazelnut were my favorites. They made my kitchen smell amazing. I bought some bean flavoring oils and flavored one of my batches…
The Cuban Espresso
In April of 2023, I had a gentleman stop by the shop in the mall. It was right before my teen and I were to fly out to Miami to visit my kid’s best friend. I mentioned that we were…
The AuDHD Struggle is Real
My goal for 2025, regarding the Galaxy Girl Coffee website, is to write a blog post every week, along with cleaning up the website and making it more user friendly. In that vein, I wrote a blog post over the…
Understanding the Roast Profile Chart
When I first started Galaxy Girl Coffee, I had been ordering beans from Coffee Bean Corral and using their bean matrix. As an uninitiated commercial coffee roaster, I didn’t fully understand that the variety of roast levels could completely change…
How to make a great mocha!
Way back in the day, when I was just out of high school, I helped some friends out by running their little coffee shack for a weekend. This was the first place I had ever tried an espresso drink, that…
How Personal Experience with AuDHD Shapes My Business
When I sat down yesterday to try and write my blog post, I had a certain individual come into my shop to ‘give me constructive feedback’ (it felt like bullying and harassment to me) for at least 10 minutes about…
What does ‘Artisan Roasting’ Mean?
Galaxy Girl Coffee is three and half years into its roasting journey, though The Galaxy Girl has been roasting for herself for almost 20 years, off and on. The decision to roast for others was born from the disappointment in…
New Year Update
With the start of the new year, we are working hard to update a lot of parts to the business that fell to the wayside while we were in the mall. This includes our blog posts. In the almost two…