Should I home roast for espresso? Help and advice needed - Page 3

[CWL]

I will have to check that out, Marshall. I have never had Intelligentsia's coffee. It's good to know that there is a good coffee shop in OKC,

Marshall go and check out Coffee Slingers. It not all that far from you and so far it is the best Cafe this area has seen. They brew Black Cat

[Marshall]

Marshall go and check out Coffee Slingers. It not all that far from you and so far it is the best Cafe this area has seen. They brew Black Cat

They certainly look promising. Someone must have told you that I will drive a considerable distance for a good espresso. Unfortunately, L.A. to OKC is a little far, even for me.

[CWL]

LOL that would be a little far. Sorry Marshall I meant shadowfax

[seacliff dweller]

Really, I think that anyone who home roasts for espresso would want to try the consensus picks just to keep the tastebuds sharp.

Very good point. I am always going from roaster to roaster tasting their beans at home to see what I am missing, like Blue Bottle, Ecco, Four Barrel (stumptown's for now), Ritual, De La Paz, Barefoot and so on. When I hit on something I like (mostly single origin), I will try to get the green beans and reference them to their roasts. I just returned from a trip to Toronto and I was surprised to sample some black cat from Intelligentsia there!

[werbin]

I was at 9th St. Espresso in Chelsea market today and was speaking to Bryan who told me that Stumptown is going to open a roaster in Broooklyn in about 3 months. This is very good news. They use Stumptown beans at 9th Street and they are very good. With any luck, Stumptown in Brooklyn will have a retail distributor in Manhattan on the upper west side that is close to where I live.

I am still interested in home roasting but I am not quite ready to start if I can get really good beans locally.

[Marshall]

EDIT: I meant to cast that Wal Mart comment as an interpretation of your caricature of home roasters ("the worst home roast is better than any store-bought roast"). While I may have missed someone actually saying that, I would assume that it's hyperbole--as in, talking about "Eight O'Clock Coffee" from Wal-Mart and the like--probably not any artisan roasted coffee.

I just picked up your edit. If it were only true. Here is a quote from the Behmor website:

One of the truest statements ever made about home roasting coffee is "the worst home roasted coffee is better than anything you can buy".

http://www.behmor.com/why_homeroast.html