There's no roast like home, there's no roast like home...

OUR MISSION:

Inspire, educate, encourage and assist those interested in great coffee and homeroasting through networking, discussion and sharing.

OUR VISION:

Provide a non-commercial resource that enables the free-exchange of information via articles, postings and others forms of coffee-related communication in support of the home coffee roaster. Encourage local meetings that will support homeroasteres worldwide.

WHAT HAPPENS...

Green coffee beans are roasted with constant stirring until they ‘pop’ twice. Roasters call these sounds ‘cracks.’ Once the beans have heated to about 375° they ‘crack’ for the first time. It sounds like matchsticks breaking, a milder report than with popcorn. At this point the beans will be lightly roasted and drinkable. Continue roasting and the roast darkens. Eventually, they ‘crack’ again at a medium dark roast. Many people prefer to drink coffee that is roasted near the ‘second crack.’ Continue roasting if you like darker roasts. Roasting takes about 15-20 minutes, depending on the method used. It can produce a lot of smoke, but a lot of smiles, too. It is not uncommon for people to exclaim, when drinking their first cup of homeroasted coffee, "there's no roast like home, there's no roast like home...

Our own Eddie Dove roasting in his backyard sometime in late September posing for the cameras of IMBIBE magazines November/December 2007 cover story on homeroasting!!

WAY TO GO EDDIE...

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