Wednesday, October 17, 2007

DIY coffee!



Today, I roasted my first batch of coffee, a Brazil Organic Fazenda Jacaranda from Sweet Maria's. The green beans arrived looking like this:




To the left, my sweet set-up: a scale; a hot air popcorn popper (really) to roast the beans, with a bowl to collect the "chaff," a parchment-like skin that gets blown off the green beans; a scale; and in the background, a colander for cooling the roasted beans. I'm warming up the water for my test brew on the stove.

...and here's batch one of Rudy's Roasting:


Tasting notes, rants, etc. to come.

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