How YOU Can Make a Career Out of Coffee Roasting
2½ years ago, I would never have imagined making a career out of coffee roasting. Yet today, that is exactly what I am. I was...
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A guide to preventive maintenance for coffee roasters
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Key takeaways Preventive maintenance protects roasting equipment and prevents costly, unplanned failures. Chaff removal after every session is a non-negotiable safety task. Modern roasting machines now flag anomalies and automatically prompt maintenance tasks. Detailed maintenance logs help roasters track issues and protect equipment in the long term. For coffee roasters, machines are the engines of their businesses. When equipment underperforms or fails without warning, the… read more
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Key takeaways Preventive maintenance protects roasting equipment and prevents costly, unplanned failures. Chaff removal after every session is a non-negotiable safety task. Modern roasting machines now flag anomalies and automatically prompt maintenance tasks. Detailed maintenance… read more
How to Home Roast Coffee: Popcorn Maker Air Popper Style
Roasting at home has always intrigued me, yet until recently, I’d shied away from trying it. Why bother when it’s so much easier to buy...
5 Things a Micro Roaster Considers When Selecting Coffees
How Is the Coffee Chosen? As a micro-roaster, there are several things that influence your decision to choose one coffee over another. Despite what you...
A Humanitarian Coffee Enterprise: Solid City Coffee
There are so many global issues around the world that we’re unfamiliar with. And who knew that something simple as a buying a bag of...
IKAWA – The World’s First Digital & Smart Phone Controlled Micro Coffee Roaster
Roasting coffee can be quite a learning curve on the journey of a coffee aficionado, but without a doubt it’s one of the most rewarding...
Breaking Bag: Why Are Coffee Bags & Their Labels Important?
I was on the phone to my mum giving her some tips on how to choose a bag of beans when I realised how incomprehensible...
Coffee & Chemistry: The Beansmith Roaster
There was a time when the roasting process would have been just another step in the journey of crop to cup. There wouldn’t have been...
Scott Rao Roasting Masterclass: How to Roast Specialty Coffee
We attended a Scott Rao’s “Roasting Masterclass” at Prufrock Coffee, London last week. Who’s Scott Rao? He’s a “Coffee Idol” to the Specialty Coffee generation....
Roasting Down Under: The Bearded Roaster
Australian coffee culture for many years has been dominated by large commercial roasting companies. With the explosion of third wave coffee onto the café scene,...
