Home Roast ...

ViRedd

ViRedd

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I was reading a nice post by Videoman40 where he mentioned enjoying his Sunday morning coffee. I've been home roasting my coffee for awhile now and was just wondering if anyone else is interested, or already doing it.

The difference between roasting your own coffee and buying (even the best) off the shelf at the store, is like the difference between smoking Mexican dirt weed and smoking your best home-grown. No comparasion what-so-ever. Here's a link: www.sweetmarias.com

Vi
 
Dankdude

Dankdude

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You know I would get into roasting my own coffee, but as you already know that I already have my Homebrewing Obsession and I'm still acquiring equipment for my ideal brewery.
 
Dankdude

Dankdude

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I want to build a system sort of like this.



This would allow me to brew ten gallons of beer at a time and I have very little to do between mash in and clean up.


it works like this, and is used to keep temperatures consistent during the mach.
Once mash is complete, you turn a knob and pump out your beer concoction into you boiling kettle and add your hops.

After the boil is done you turn another knob and run the concoction through a counter flow chiller strait into a glass carboys and pitch your yeast.


and then let it ferment.
 
ViRedd

ViRedd

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Ahem! About that home roasting coffee, Dank ... if anyone would enjoy a fresh cup of home roasted coffee, its you. The stuff is simply amazing.

Vi

PS: Nice coils. *lol*
 
videoman40

videoman40

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I remember my wife and I watching a show all about coffee, a documentary.
It touched upon the most expensive coffee bean in the world, which gets digested by this local animal, and the field workers have to follow the animal around waiting for it to take a dump, than go and re-harvest the beans for sale.

Now sit back.....take a toke off your pipe and think about this for a moment, we pay more money for this than any other coffee in the world! A coffee bean that has been eaten by an animal and shit out, than a worker has to sift thru the shit, get the beans out of the shit, and sell it to us?
The world really is an amazing place.
Peace
(I do enjoy my coffee though, just not quite that much)
 
Smirgen

Smirgen

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Now sit back.....take a toke off your pipe and think about this for a moment, we pay more money for this than any other coffee in the world! A coffee bean that has been eaten by an animal and shit out, than a worker has to sift thru the shit, get the beans out of the shit,
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LOL! That reminds me of the Cheech and Chong skit , the only thing grosser than that would be drinking that putrid alchoholic beverage they make in Africa (I think) where the women in the villiage swish the liguid around in their mouth (to help fermentation) and then spit it back out into the collective brew bowl.
 
ViRedd

ViRedd

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Here's what I've discovered about coffee: Each region's coffee tastes different from any other region. Just like great home grown buds, each strain has its very own portrait. Aroma, taste and nuances are all different. The Brazilian coffee beans, for instance, have hints of chocolate and hazelnut. Guatemalan coffee has some chocolate undertones with a slight plum or winey overtones. The Ethiopians have a fruity tinge with spicy undertones, kind of like nutmeg.

Home roasted coffee is nothing like what you'll find at Starbucks at all. For one thing, Starbucks burns their beans by roasting them way too long. Its the lighter roasts that reveal all the wonderful nuances of flavor and aroma.

Try it ... you'll like it.

Vi
 
Dankdude

Dankdude

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personally Guatemalan coffee is my all time favorite.
I just was pointing out where my extra money is going these days.
 
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