Episode 454 – Learning to Roast, Home Coffee Business Part 1
It’s TIME! I took your questions over on our Mewe group all about what you want to know about starting a home or craft roasting business. Today will be the first in a series of home roasting podcasts and we will talk about learning to roast.
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Episode 453 – Learning to Roast, Home Coffee Business Part 1
The more I learn about it, the less I know about coffee.
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- Coffee cherries, processing beans, getting green beans
- What happens when you roast
- Can you reroast?
- Light, medium, dark, etc roasts
- Mallaird reaction, sugars, flavors, slow vs fast roast
- Chaff
- First crack, second crack, FIRE!
- Cooling
- “The trace” and software in coffee
- The role of beans in roasting
- Drum vs air roasting
- Ways to roast without specialized equipment
- Home roasters: Behmore, Gene Cafe, Nesco, Hottop
- Home roasters, small roasters, commercial roasters
- Volume matters
- Low acid/stomach issues
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