You Too Can Roast Your Own Coffee Beans With A Home Coffee Roaster
To enjoy the freshest, best tasting coffee there is none better than what you roast at home. You can get the flavor you are looking for not what someone else thinks it should taste like. Roasting coffee at home is a great hobby for coffee lovers. You get to watch smell and hear the coffee being roasted. I think the change in color from green to yellow to brown is exciting. The darker you roast it has to do with taste and actually the darker roasts have less caffeine as well sometimes flavor. Most people don’t have the time or patience for roasting their own coffee. For these people they should go to their local roaster to get their coffee beans already roasted, they are still better than supermarket coffee. There is a multitude way to roast coffee from very inexpensive pop corn poppers to elaborate computer controlled home roasters.
What will you roast your coffee in?
It really depends on how much time you have and how much you want to roast at a time. I have been roasting for about three years now and can usually tell by sight when to stop roasting. As long as you don’t burn it, anything after the first crack of the bean is coffee. You can roast coffee on a stove in a skillet, in a whirly popcorn popper or you can even roast in a computerized coffee roaster. No matter what method you choose, you can pick the type of bean for brewing, and determine the right roast to obtain just the flavor you desire. You are in control of the coffee experience from start to finish.
I like to experiment with the green coffee beans I buy to come up with a new and unique taste. I roast with several different methods from a modified hot air popcorn popper, BBQ drum roaster and a Fresh Roast Plus 8 all fairly inexpensive. We drink about a pound of coffee a week which I roast in about an hour on the week-end.
With a little practice and know how, anyone who considers coffee brewing not just something that they do in the morning, but rather as a enjoyable hobby. You can even create your own signature roast or blend different roast together to come up with your own coffee blend.
If you want to have the best tasting coffee then you need to learn to roast it yourself. If you want to roast it to suit your taste, then getting a coffee roaster is the way to go. You can enjoy drinking coffee that you created yourself and you might even share it with others so relax and roast some beans.
