Roast Your Own
Roasters get into a lot of technicalities roasting coffee, but the one thing that they frequently neglect is in the care of the coffee after the roast while off gassing and later.
It is tempting to leave the coffee in open trays and it is easy to forget it and leave it there for longer periods of time. When in a closed container the accumulating CO2 prevents oxygenation. Worst case, the roaster will roast beans weeks ahead waiting for orders to package the coffee.
Did you know that you can easily roast your own coffee. For $75 you can buy a good countertop roaster, and if not, roast your coffee in a popcorn roaster. Native mountain families can be seen roasting in a 50 gal drum turned on a stick over an open campfire.
When you roast your own, you have the ultimate measure of freshness. Don't over roast. Do do a cupping exercise; it can be major family fun. Try several selections of green beans and cup them blind. Write down your conclusions. Make up your own attributes. You will be amazed how good coffee can taste.
Buy a 135# bag of organic, SHB, high mountain green beans of your choice. Store the bag in a cool dry pantry and enjoy a yield of around 111 lbs? about a year's supply.
It is tempting to leave the coffee in open trays and it is easy to forget it and leave it there for longer periods of time. When in a closed container the accumulating CO2 prevents oxygenation. Worst case, the roaster will roast beans weeks ahead waiting for orders to package the coffee.
Did you know that you can easily roast your own coffee. For $75 you can buy a good countertop roaster, and if not, roast your coffee in a popcorn roaster. Native mountain families can be seen roasting in a 50 gal drum turned on a stick over an open campfire.
When you roast your own, you have the ultimate measure of freshness. Don't over roast. Do do a cupping exercise; it can be major family fun. Try several selections of green beans and cup them blind. Write down your conclusions. Make up your own attributes. You will be amazed how good coffee can taste.
Buy a 135# bag of organic, SHB, high mountain green beans of your choice. Store the bag in a cool dry pantry and enjoy a yield of around 111 lbs? about a year's supply.
posted by Clancy Hughes | 5:23 PM
3 Comments:
I really enjoy your articles and appreciation of good coffee over the crap they sell at grocery stores. I'm a young entrepreneur from Vancouver, Canada and I'm currently spending sometime in Rwanda. I'm considering starting to import green coffee beans from he northern region as they have superb growing conditions for arabica. I'd love to ask you some questions if you'd be open to helping me out with my preliminary research!
Thanks in advance,
Mathew
Mathew, I am a month late is responding to your comment on my coffee blog, http://organiccoffee.BlogSpot.com. I hope you brought some coffee beans home with you. Roasting is an easy skill. The natives roast in 50 gal fuel drums turning over an open fire. You can buy a good counter top roaster for a reasonable price or even use a popcorn popper. The quality of a roast centers around how the roasted beans are stored, packaged and how fresh the roast. A coffee cart on a busy street with your own roasted coffee might be an instant winner -- profit-wise. I wrote about quality from our viewpoint today, you might take a look. We do have some coffee on hand from Ruanda and from Thailand. Glad to help if you need. Diane is always looking for coffee sales persons too. 907 235-4229 http://earthfriendlycoffee.com
I'm gonna try your methods and see if it works.
Tully s coffee
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