I started home coffee roasting in 1998 and have been a customer of Sweet Maria’s ever since. The Monkey Blend, Liquid Amber and Classic Italian Blends are all old favorites. I’ve roasted and consumed well over 100 pounds of those blends. But I am also seeking out new blends to challenge my palate, so I [...]
Monday I got a chance to head up with Jason Simon of Caffeinated Consersations to Everett, Washington to visit Velton’s Coffee Roasting Company. Besides enjoying good espresso and good conversation, we discussed setting up a future Meetup and coffee roasting demo for the Coffee Club of Seattle. If you are in the Seattle [...]
The original iRoast home coffee roasting had this annoying problem. About every 3rd or 4th roast the lid would pop off during the roast or cooling cycle. It didn’t affect every unit, but it did mine. When I moved to the iRoast 2, I was happy that I didn’t have to slap tape to hold [...]
A royal screwup led to my first major home-roasting success.
How long is a long roast? Check out the article The Longest Coffee Roast Ever? on INeedCoffee to find out.
I just put out a full article on the economics of home roasting coffee on INeedCoffee. The article is titled The Quick Economics of Home Roasting Coffee. Check it out.
Photo 2 Pounds of Green Coffee Beans by INeedCoffee / CoffeeHero
INeedCoffee just published my interview with Chris Arnold about the Green Coffee Buying Club.
While researching the economics of home coffee roasting, I wanted to learn more about a green coffee buying cooperative. Green bean coffee cooperatives are groups that pool their money together to buy sizes of unroasted coffee that are usually only available to commercial roasters.
Here [...]
I’ve used several Westbend Poppery machines to roast coffee. I’ve roasted with some form of a Westbend in Tampa Bay, Northern Virginia, San Diego and now Seattle. Paul from the Caffination is using his Poppery in Philadelphia. Alex is roasting with his in Cape Cod. Ryan, who resides in Columbus, also has [...]
Are you a homeroaster and do you drink espresso? If both answers are yes, I have to tell you about the best espresso blend I’ve had in 11+ years of home roasting. It is called the MVP Espresso 2009 by Paradise Roasters. Paradise has a few espresso blends they sell as green (unroasted) coffee. They [...]
My safety net is gone. Last week, I ground and brewed the last of the professionally-roasted coffee beans in my home. Waiting in the on-deck circle are five pound-bags of green, unroasted beans.
