Posted by TheShot on 21 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
Today’s The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) posted an article on home coffee roasting: Coffee fans toast what they roast | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA. What I particularly liked was that they use the term I do for fresh roasted coffee: fresh baked bread.
Too often, restaurants, cafés, stores, and, well, coffee drinkers treat roasted coffee as [...]
Posted by TheShot on 03 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting
Today’s Edmonton Journal published a primer on the more sophisticated home espresso setup: Getting Serious About Coffee. In other words, what do you do when your $100 home Krups machine isn’t cutting it — because the espresso it produces belongs in the same landfill where your machine will deservedly rot its final days?
There’s an avalanche [...]
Posted by TheShot on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Roasting
The Northwest Indiana Times ran a story today on the growth of those freaks of coffee consumption, home roasters: Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com - Coffee Snobs Move on to Homemade Roasts. Home roasting has been around for a while. In fact, a long, long while. Its most recent resurgence has come about over the past [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 09 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Roasting
Here’s an update for the fellow home roaster geeks who have lamented the demise of Hawaii’s Ka’anapali Farm … from today’s The Maui News: Buzz over coffee has come back to Kaanapali. As reported here in March, I first spotted the return of the Maui Moka bean — easily my favorite bean stock for homemade [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 24 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
Canadian Business magazine recently reposted a 2001 article on the deep and seemingly bottomless pit of home espresso perfectionism (something I can identify with all too well): A cuppa perfection | After Hours | Gotta Have It | Canadian Business Online. The article is even more accurate today than it was when first published.
It all [...]
Posted by TheShot on 25 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Roasting
As the article opens: “Coffee is on its way to becoming the ‘new wine.’” And the best way to appreciate good coffee requires roasting green beans and grinding them up fresh. From today’s Herald Tribune in Southwest Florida: Coffee connoisseurs are roasting their own. (And also this primer on coffee beans: Did you know?)
When it [...]
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