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Home Barista is developing a consolidated space for folks interested in buying or trading green coffee in one easy to manage location. If you are interested in distributing, acquiring, or trading green coffee, this is the thread to do so.
Since hunting down exceptional greens can be a challenge nowadays maybe heads up are in order.
here are a few recent listed lots I just ordered that should have exceptional potential for espresso and/or brewed.
SM Kenya Nyeri Ngunguru
SM Aida Batlle El Salvador Finca...
I'm looking to make the drum of my coffee roaster spin faster. It's currently at 64RPM and I want to get it up to 75RPM. This is to reduce my conduction heat transfer and increase my convention
I'm using a Kaldi 400 Wide. Max load is 400g but I load to 300g.
Just had my Bullet delivered yesterday and will get it set up this weekend. I have seen a couple more posts from folks that also got in on the latest batch from Sweet Mairas. Anyone interested in ordering some of the same beans and learning to roast on the new machine together....
I just roasted my first try at this and the results were, at least for me given my inexperience, excellent. Very mild, smooth and tasty. I hit first crack much earlier than expected on my Cormorant but the roasted beans look very evenly roasted, and again, the taste was...
I vacuum seal individual 18g doses of beans around the time that they hit maximum flavor and body. I then freeze them and simply grab a dose out of the freezer, grind and pour.
I previously had two Acaia Orions for the job of weighing and dispensing the beans, until I saw a...
I've purchased a few recently and haven't been overwhelmed. I'm a fan of natural process coffees and complex flavors so these are probably up my alley. I assume I'm doing something wrong.
I try to roast them pretty light but the weight loss always winds up close to 15% (which...
Fellow roasters does this interest you for your home roasted beans? Why or why not. At the kickoff price it still twice the price of the Airscape, but the digital version seems interesting.
Kickstarter Project Link
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