Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

How do you roast your green coffee beans?  I am not looking for the procedure.  I’m not looking for what machine you use.  What I mean is, like, how much do you roast at a time, and how many different varieties of coffee do you roast at a given time?
For me, I usually roast about [...]

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 [...]

Last month, I got my first Ethiopia Yirgacheffe green coffee beans.  Ethiopia is the place where coffee was “invented,” so I was looking forward to enjoying some wonderfully delicious coffee.
Well, as you know if you read this site, I am pretty new at coffee roasting, and specialty coffee beans in general.  When I roasted the [...]

Well, this morning I did some roasting of green beans.  I guess I usually roast about twice per week or so.  Today is Wednesday and I roasted two different varieties of green beans today.
First, I roasted some Natural Yirgacheffe Worka beans that came from Ethiopia.  I got these beans from my Sangay, Bobby Timonera.  Bobby [...]