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Palale Coffee Roasting Experiment
http://www.mylatestinterest.blogspot.com/
My experiments with home coffee roasting.
- Added on: Jan 21st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Back from the Dead
Yeah, yeah, so it's been a year...I think the blog served its purpose to demonstrate that a novice really could roast exceptional coffee beans at home. I drank my own coffee for well over a year until the chamber in my iRoast broke. It didn't break...
Coffee Divots
Here is an interesting sign of coffee as it advances in the roasting proccess. At first, I thought these were tell tale signs of burned beans, but after doing a little more reading, I think that it has to do with the beans actually blowing apart duri...
The Slump Buster Roast
It's funny how sometimes it is so easy to lose site of the details. In my quest to find the perfect cup, at some point, I became subject to a self fulfilling prophecy. My coffee started sliding in quality--I think because I was burning it. As a means...
The Slump
Boy, I really feel like I am in a slump. The coffee that I have roasted seems to have taken on a change for the worse, and I'm not sure why that is. I have roasted a couple of batches this week that I have not posted logs for, but have received out...
Turning Up the Heat on Smaller Batches
I'm impatient. I'm not scientific. These are two facts that I have deduced from today's experiment. I know I stated that I would continue to use the same beans so that I only change one variable from roast to roast, but I've been drinking the guatame...
Baked Coffee
I have worked/roasted/drank my way through most of my first order of green beans from Sweet Marias and ordered 2 of my favorites in 5 lb quantities (Guatemala and Kenya pictured). My hope in doing this is to take away one variable (variety in beans) ...
