German Chocolate Coffee Mead - Page 2

Thromgar · 05-07-2009, 02:05 AM

I work at a Coffee Shop and we don't sell any of the flavored beans, as they will contaminate a grinder and make ever coffee ground through them taste like whatever the additive was. Usually the flavored beans are a great profit margin because you can roast any cheap bean you want and add flavor so they are ultra cheap to produce, and then they are sold for whatever the regular lower costing coffee rate is.

**harrydrez** · 05-09-2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by summersolstice

I understand what you mean. As a home coffee roaster I too am flabbergasted. As I said in an earlier post, it was pretty good in mead but I threw away 75% of the bag after I made the mead because I will not drink flavored coffee.

I had a friend who was a professional roaster and he made these "flavored" coffees because his customers bought them and they sold well. However on roasting day you could smell the stench of burning sugars and flavorings for blocks away.

Seriously, coffee already has flavor!

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I work at a Coffee Shop and we don't sell any of the flavored beans, as they will contaminate a grinder and make ever coffee ground through them taste like whatever the additive was.

I used to work at one too, what we did was use two different grinders, one for regular one for flavored. It is big business but you won't see me drinking any.

potatoe · 05-09-2009, 09:42 PM

+1 on grinder contamination. I buy quite a bit of used equipment for wholesale accounts. My first question with grinders in whether or not they ever ran flavored coffee through it. The answer is always "no", but I can smell that crap 'upwind, from 2 clicks out'. Its about 3 to 5 hours of hard labor to get them back to 'newish'.

Does this fellow have a separate machine for roasting flavored beans? I have only ever heard of adding stuff post-roast. Seems like a good way to make a $10,000 - $100,000 piece of equipment totally unsellable...

sorry, this is more than a bit off topic...........not intending to thread-jack.

Wonderbird · 04-26-2011, 10:17 PM

I just started home roasting but could never quite figure out the whole "flavored coffee" thing... If you really want some "extra" flavor in your coffee pour some Baileys in AFTER brewing...

freckled1 · 12-07-2011, 06:29 PM

How did this turn out? I'm going to start a one gallon test batch in January. How long did you let the coffee sit after the initial fermentation of the regular mead?