Entries Tagged as 'Roasting'

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Espresso Workshop Blends from Sweet Maria’s

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 [...]

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Road Trip to Velton’s Coffee

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 [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

iRoast 2 – Grab the Tape Again!

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 [...]

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Home-Roasting Heretic: Happy Accidents

A royal screwup led to my first major home-roasting success.

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Super Slow Roasted Coffee

How long is a long roast?  Check out the article The Longest Coffee Roast Ever? on INeedCoffee to find out.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Home Roasting Math

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

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Green Coffee Buying Cooperatives

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 [...]

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Channeling Yoda For Poppery Wisdom

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 [...]

Monday, August 31st, 2009

MVP Espresso 2009

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 [...]

Monday, August 24th, 2009

All-In for Home-Roasting

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.

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