☕ Coffee ☕: Ingredients, Roasting, Grinding, Brewing, and Tasting

[jammin]

Sounds delicious! With the cooler weather I'm itching too roast this PNG I've had for a week or so now.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

I'm glad you mentioned png. I have a work pot luck and I'm bringing coffee for it. Png should fit the occasion

 

[jammin]

Edit: ^ let us know what they think! a PNG is a good crowd pleaser coffee and i bet they love it!


Got the roaster warming up right - I gotta give it to Tom; he really knows how to sell a coffee.

Read the bottom description & tell me you don't want to order some right now haha.

Wish me luck - I haven't roasted PB in AGES and I've basically never roasted PNG for all intents & purposes

 

[TallDan]

Got the roaster warming up right - I gotta give to yo Tom; he really knows how to sell a coffee.

Read the bottom description & tell me you don't want to order some right now haha.

Reminds me of the description of my IPA from a scoresheet in a recent competition. "Big berry, citrus and piney aroma... ...with a touch of honey" "...a black-berry and piney hop flavor... ...with herbal notes. Light strawberry esters".

He made my beer sound pretty fantastic.

 

[jammin]

Here is my roasting station btw - always fun to get a peak at other folks' setups.

I've been considering selling my Quest & buying the updated model. I guess it's a bit easier to clean. If anyone has a serious interest you can PM me.

 

[ChefRex]

Reminds me of the description of my IPA from a scoresheet in a recent competition. "Big berry, citrus and piney aroma... ...with a touch of honey" "...a black-berry and piney hop flavor... ...with herbal notes. Light strawberry esters".

He made my beer sound pretty fantastic.

Well was it?

Roasted a pound for the week earlier, using up the last of a couple bags.

 

[TallDan]

Well was it?

Just finished the last glass of it. It was a pretty good AIPA. Will be brewing something similar again pretty soon, I think.

 

[ChefRex]

Just finished the last glass of it. It was a pretty good AIPA. Will be brewing something similar again pretty soon, I think.

Never think, do!

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Here is my roasting station btw - always fun to get a peak at other folks' setups.

I'd post my setup, but I am only just getting it set up now so it's a little bare. Been in the new house for about 7 months now but only just getting new furniture situated, which has (in the last week) given me a new roasting desk (rather than a tray table I had previously used in the corner.

So, maybe I'll post one in another 7 months when I get it situated?!?

 

[applescrap]

I just started reading this thread from the beginning. Sorry, I don't know why I didn't do that before. It's fun to see how we all went through similar progressions.

PassedPawn your whirly pop roasts looked way better than mine. Is putting your whirly pop in the charcoal how it failed or was it just usage? Also how many pounds were you able to make at once in it? Starting to think 2 pounds would make life easier.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

I passively began reading this thread from the beginning, and over the course of a week I found the end (or became current with where it was at the time) and I had decided to try roasting on a Whirly after about 2 days of reading. That was just over two years ago, and man it's funny how things have come along.

 

[jammin]

i brewed up a couple mugs of PNG this morning and man its good. after you take a sip its like molasses hanging out. just a really nice lingering sweetness. think I'm gonna need to order some more

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

i brewed up a couple mugs of PNG this morning and man its good. after you take a sip its like molasses hanging out. just a really nice lingering sweetness. think I'm gonna need to order some more

If you see any good looking stuff, give us a tip. I've been keeping an eye open, but last I looked (a couple weeks ago) SMs was out.

 

[jammin]

If you see any good looking stuff, give us a tip. I've been keeping an eye open, but last I looked (a couple weeks ago) SMs was out.

the stuff i got is still available along with another PNG that is rated higher. i better just order some more & get it over with. SM's has 2 highly rated Ethiopians that sound kinda good.

the peaberry, as suspected, was a total PITA to roast... grrrrr

ill post a pic later of the cool Margogype hybrid i got from RM's. the beans are HUGE!

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

I roasted an El Salvador the other day, and I had a really nice roast going (went slow with it) and just as 1C was finishing it rushed into 2C.

WTH?!?!

Any ideas? I don't know that I could really take this roast any slower. I've never had one go into 2C like this; I had a really nice First Crack, about one min (which is normal for me) then it went straight into 2C.

 

[jammin]

^what type of roaster are you using and what kind of heat & fan settings lead up to the event?

 

[estricklin]

Scored some Ethiopian Single Farm for $4.50 /lb, last year's harvest, but at that price I bit for 5 lbs. I buy a lot of the sale stuff too since I go through so much coffee. I have a thermos, I fill up every morning, it will keep coffee hot for 24 hours+ pretty easily.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

^what type of roaster are you using and what kind of heat & fan settings lead up to the event?

Behmor, so no fan control. I pull back heat from about 3 to 4 min in just to slow down a little, then I pull back heat at browning. At 1C I go from 100 percent heat to 25 percent heat. Then finish the roast and go to cooling about 15 to 20 secs after 1c ends.

In the case with el salvador 1c never stopped... Just turned into 2c.

 

[jammin]

The behmor is a tough nut to crack. With limited ventilation a roast can progress quite quickly so it's hard to say exactly what happened but that would be my hunch. I've heard several folks crack the door during the stretch to temper rate of rise.

 

[TrickyDick]

FYI -
Sweet Maria has a nice sounding EYC Dry process up now. I nabbed 10#. Probably going to be doing some of this when I get my new roaster (yep, pulled the trigger on the Bullet R1 Most folks say its sweet spot is 700g.)

 

[TrickyDick]

Roasting a Java wet hulled Srikandi and a EYC dry process Gedeb Asasa tonight. might try blending them later.

snapped a pic tonight that I'll upload later of the roast/brew zone.

Like a dope I posted the photo a couple pages back to an old post not realizing...
Oh well.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

Roasting a Java wet hulled Srikandi and a EYC dry process Gedeb Asasa tonight. might try blending them later.

snapped a pic tonight that I'll upload later of the roast/brew zone.

I love the Gedeb. I still have 20 lbs at home.

 

[HarborTownBrewing]

I took the png to work today. I told them it had chocolate and caramel characteristics (which was pretty delicious). Everyone loved it and couldn't believe the flavor.

But one woman said, "how do you get those flavors? Do you roast caramel beans and chocolate beans?"

When that's the question, there really is no suitable answer.

 

[passedpawn]

Happy National Coffee Day to all my well-caffeinated friends.

 

[applescrap]

Cheers!

 

[friedcoffee]

The behmor is a tough nut to crack. With limited ventilation a roast can progress quite quickly so it's hard to say exactly what happened but that would be my hunch. I've heard several folks crack the door during the stretch to temper rate of rise.

I see a lot of stuff to read here. You guys are sharing a lot of different experience that gains more insights.

 

[applescrap]

So my work partner/friend and I were drinking that honduran coffee and he says he prefers his "buttery caramel" blend. So we go in our office and he pours me some. And we both were like g.. damn that sucks. That s..t tasted like rat poison after a fresh roast. You guys have basically ensured I will roast coffee till I die, thanks. Kenyan bodhi leaf "favorite". Heard little cracks at 7 ish and first crack at 8, finished in 10. Now I'm shaking, listening, looking, and am more aware. Don't know jack, but I'm giving it hell. Oh btw spilt a quarter pound or so of beans, woopsie, and still had 2 pounds.?

 

[applescrap]

Doh

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[passedpawn]

PassedPawn your whirly pop roasts looked way better than mine. Is putting your whirly pop in the charcoal how it failed or was it just usage? Also how many pounds were you able to make at once in it? Starting to think 2 pounds would make life easier.

I only did that once, as an experiment. That's the day it failed. I had done a couple of roasts before that on the stove, but I was trying to avoid all the smoke in the house. I can't recall how that coal roast ended up.

By the time I replaced that Whirley (with the metal gear variety), I had made a different roaster with the stir crazy / turbo oven. That SCTO has served me pretty well.

Doh

That looks like a mighy fine roast!

 

[passedpawn]

I probably would have gotten one of those commercial rigs that you guys have if the SC/TO hadn't worked out. I still might. I really like the roasters that have steel barrels that turn and use hot forced air to get a nice even roast. I can see how that would be ideal. And, I really like the feedback with the temp sensors to be able to compare roasts and finely control the heating profile.

Enthusiast sites like HBT are full of fancy gadgets that make your hobby better. For many of us, there's a finite amount of money for frivolous stuff like this, so you make decisions. For you guys with kids living at college, you know that it's no small feat paying for tuition/housing/food/cars/incidentals. I've got 3 kids in colleges out there in the world, and I'm paying their way to make sure they come out with no (or little) debt. So I'm sticking with the SCTO for now