My Equipment

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Basically, you need some various types of equipment to do different aspects of the coffee hobby. My personal setup is very simple, not expensive, yet still produces delicious coffee. Let's have a look at what I am currently using. Roasting For roasting coffee beans, I am using a simple stovetop method. There are lots of types of coffee roasting equipment that you can buy, but for now, I just pan roast my beans. It's not the most elegant way of achieving roasted beans, but it is cheap, and good enough. I have a simple rice pot that I use to roast beans on the stovetop. It's a small rice pot that can handle roasting of about a half … [Read more...]

How was the taste?

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Remember last week, I wrote about a roasting that I did on some Yirg?  It was ugly, but I was hoping it would be delicious.  Well, I am happy to report that on my fourth roasting attempt, I was finally able to reproduce the delicious Yirg results that I got the first time I roasted it!  After going too light, then too dark, I finally hit it right on! Unfortunately, that was a small batch that I roasted, though, and I've already drank all of it!  You see, I was tired of wasting good coffee beans when I wasn't doing a good job of roasting, so I decreased the batch size until I hit on the proper results!  And, I did it! Like I said, those … [Read more...]