Roasting Coffee at Home, without special equipment – Part 1
Part 1 of a tutorial on roasting your own coffee at home, using a normal stove, pot, and wooden spoon. No special machines or other gear are required! To buy green coffee beans check out: www.greenbeanery.ca www.sweetmarias.com
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You LIKE burnt?
This is awesome. I was spoiled in Orlando by Austin’s Coffee, a local place that roasts a suuuuper strong, burnt flavored coffee in-store, and now I cannot find anything to compare. Any other coffee I find tastes like nothing now. I am definitely going to start home roasting.
I use a big steel wok…stir the beans like you’re stirring a roux…in other words constantly…I use dampened paper towels laid out on cookie trays and then cover the beans with another damp paper towel…then put in freezer for a few minutes. One wonderful thing about home roast is that you can custom roast to your taste. I Also, peabarry coffee, with beans that have never split and are therefore round, is great for home roast as the beans roll about more easily and don’t want to lie flat.
Sorry trio628, I accidentally deleted your question! lol… I’ve never had a Jamaican Blue Mountain espresso. The one time I drank it as normal coffee it had an extremely delicate flavour, and would easily be ruined by over-roasting. There are other coffees I like more, for less money. You could look at a JBM espresso two ways, one that the flavour is too delicate to work well, and the other is that if you get the roast right than espresso is just the ticket to bring out the flavour of JBM.
I don’t have much experience roasting specifically for espresso, but from what I have read a dark roast is generally best. This is because espresso brewing concentrates and enhances a coffee’s flavour so a too light roast would become overwhelming. I’ve also read to avoid very sharp and acidic coffees such as Kenya AA, or to include them sparingly in a blend for the same reason.
This is a great video. very informational. Do you drink espresso? Do you recommend any roast for espresso? I think a dark roast but what is your opinion.