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Home Coffee Roasting With a Popcorn Maker Alun Richards What Have We Got For You? 1. Introduction to Home Coffee Roasting 2. Using a Popcorn Roaster 3. Buying Green Beans 4. The Process of Roasting Coffee 5. The Importance of a Grinder 6.

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Home Coffee Roasting With a Popcorn Maker

Alun Richards

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What Have We Got For You?

  • 1. Introduction to Home Coffee Roasting
  • 2. Using a Popcorn Roaster
  • 3. Buying Green Beans
  • 4. The Process of Roasting Coffee
  • 5. The Importance of a Grinder
  • 6. The Importance of Consistency
  • 7. A Few Words About Water
  • 8. Preparing For Home Roasting
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Why Me and Coffee Roasting

I’m a Coffee Lover

  • Been grinding decent

coffee for 35 years

  • Fell in love with Italian

coffee in 1980

  • Owned espresso

machine for 20 years

  • Roasting for 1 month!
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Introduction To Home Coffee Roasting

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Why Roast Coffee At Home?

There are three main reasons

  • 1. Freshness
  • 2. Taste & aroma
  • 3. Cost
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Why Roast Coffee At Home?

  • 1. Freshness

Roast beans last at their peak for about two weeks Ground coffee lasts a few hours! When you roast at home you can always have the freshest coffee available

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Why Roast Coffee At Home?

  • 2. Taste & Aroma

You have the freshest roasted beans So your coffee always tastes full Can taste individual bean characteristics

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Why Roast Coffee At Home?

  • 3. Cost

I can have my chosen coffee at a half to a third

  • f the price of the SAME

roasted beans. When you buy green beans, you’ll find they are a fraction of the price of roast.

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Can I Really Get Good Quality?

  • Yes!
  • You can at least rival

commercially produced coffee!

  • And you can produce it

exactly how you like it

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Using a Popcorn Roaster

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Why Use a Popcorn Roaster?

  • Coffee roasting can be

an expensive business

  • Many home coffee

roasters are up to £1,000 or more Other roasters

  • Glorified stove-top pans
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Why Use a Popcorn Roaster?

  • Cost: about £24
  • Next cheapest roaster is

about £300!

  • Speed

– Roast within 6 mins

  • Convenience

– Small unit – Easily packed away

  • Consistency

– Hot air circulates beans as they roast

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What Popcorn Roaster Should I Get?

Popcorn roaster needs hot air vents at the SIDE

  • Anything else will burn the

beans

  • If your popcorn roaster has

this feature, it will work

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What Popcorn Roaster Should I Get?

I recommend the Severin 117803 Popcorn Maker

  • http://alunloves.it/severin
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Why This Specific Popcorn Roaster?

  • It has the design you

need

  • It works!
  • Many reviews on

Amazon …

  • … for coffee roasting!
  • Fast delivery from

Amazon

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Any Popcorn Roaster Disadvantages?

Small Batch Size

  • Around 100g (4 Oz)

Fast Roast Time

  • Less than 6 minutes
  • … why a disadvantage?
  • Can’t really alter roast

time

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Any Popcorn Roaster Disadvantages?

All Disadvantages Outweighed by:

  • Cost
  • Convenience
  • Consistency
  • Speed
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What Else Do I Need?

  • A sieve
  • A large paper takeaway

coffee cup

  • Kitchen scales (weighs

in grammes)

  • A timer (use your smart

phone) Optionally

  • A collander
  • A large heavy metal pan
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What Else Do I Need?

A large heavy metal pan

  • To cool the beans after

your roast

  • A large heavy pan cools

fastest

  • Rapid temperature

reduction needed to avoid over-roasting

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What Else Do I Need?

Large Takeaway Paper Coffee Cup

  • The beans get lighter as

they roast

  • They jump out of the

roaster

  • If you put the plastic

top on, it will melt

  • Cup contains the beans
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Severin Alternatives

In the US?

  • Get the West Bend

Poppery

  • Powerful heater
  • No longer on sale
  • Need to get from

– thrift sales – yard sales – eBay

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Buying Green Beans

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Why Green Beans?

Why Green Beans?

  • To roast, you need green

beans Green Bean Facts

  • They last forever!
  • Much longer than roasted

No Such Thing as ‘best bean’

  • Coffee regions are different
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What Green Beans?

What Type?

  • Arabica
  • High-grown

Why?

  • More individual character
  • More acidic

Where From?

  • Ethiopia
  • Costa Rica
  • Colombia
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What Green Beans?

Ethiopia High Grown Arabica

  • Sidamo
  • Yirgacheffe
  • Harrar

Tastes

  • Complex
  • Fruity

– Blueberry – Strawberry

  • Floral
  • Nutty
  • Jammy
  • Winey
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Where Do I Get Green Beans?

My Suggestion:

  • Start with organic Sidamo
  • Or Yirgacheffe

Will take wide variety of roasts

  • Light to dark
  • Good coffee
  • Good to learn your craft
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Where Do I Get Green Beans?

Places Near You:

  • Search Google
  • Mail order – Search

Google To Get You Started: CoffeePlant: coffee.uk.com Coffee Bean Shop: Coffeebeanshop.co.uk

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The Process of Roasting Coffee

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Simplified Roasting Process

Simplified Roast Stages 1. Yellowing, darkening 2. First Crack 3. Second Crack 4. Burnt! Use sound and colour

  • Listen for cracks
  • Monitor darkness

Use timing

  • Monitor time
  • Record results!
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Roasting Process

First Crack

  • Beans crack audibly
  • From 2-4 minutes
  • The beans darken

Second Crack

  • 4:30-6 minutes
  • More heat given off
  • Smoke emitted
  • Darker colour
  • Oily sheen
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Stages of Roast - Expanded

First Crack

  • Cinnamon
  • American
  • City

Second Crack

  • Full City
  • Vienna
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
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Latter Stages of Roast

  • Less bean & region

characteristics

  • More roasted flavours
  • Less acidity
  • Then burnt flavours
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Stages of Roast - Recommended

First Crack

  • Cinnamon
  • American
  • City

Second Crack

  • Full City
  • Vienna
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
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Why Stop at American or City?

Good Combination of:

  • Acidity
  • Bean characteristics
  • Roast coffee flavour
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Stopping at American or City

How Do I Know? Sound

  • After first crack
  • Before second

Appearance

  • No oily shimmer
  • Light/medium brown

Time

  • More than 2:30-3:00
  • Less than 6:00
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Stopping at American or City

Consistency is Vital!

  • Use guidelines

initially

  • Make your own

measurements Once Consistent

  • Roast to your

preferred level

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Stopping at American or City

Popcorn Roasting Is Fast!

  • The roast develops

quickly

  • A few seconds is a

lot

  • Cooling beans fast is

vital

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The Importance of a Grinder

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The Importance of a Grinder

A Good Grinder

  • Is essential for home

roasters!

  • Affects coffee quality

more than anything else

  • Should be your first

purchase

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Grinder Mistakes

Don’t Get a Blade Grinder! They smash coffee beans to pieces … … instead of grinding Grain size consistency is key to good coffee Blade grinders produce partial beans and dust together

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Grinder Mistakes

This means … Dust is over-extracted: bitter Partial beans are under- extracted: sour Bitter and sour in same cup overrides coffee taste

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Grinder Mistakes

This means … Blade grinders not suitable for ANY style of coffee making You need a burr grinder

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Grinder Requirements

What You Need

  • A burr grinder
  • Coffee ground between

two burred discs or cones

  • Discs cheaper
  • Conical burr grinders

better – more costly

  • This is an entry-level

model

  • Krups GVX 231
  • alunloves.it/krups
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Grinder Requirements

Manual is Fine!

  • Hario Mini Mill Slim

Coffee Grinder

  • A ceramic conical burr

grinder

  • Coffee ground between

two burred cones

  • This is an entry-level

model

  • Hario Slim Mini
  • alunloves.it/hario
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Grinder Requirements

Next Step Up

  • Dualit 75015
  • Conical burr grinder
  • Much better consistency
  • Seriously consider this

grinder

  • See the Amazon reviews
  • alunloves.it/dualit
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The Importance of Consistency

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Consistency Is Vital

Consistency of What?

  • Consistency of coffee you

produce …

  • Depends on consistency
  • f process
  • Starting conditions are

vital

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Consistency Is Vital

Consistency of What?

  • Weight of beans
  • Timing of roast
  • Accuracy of measurement

You Will Need

  • Stopwatch in seconds

– Smart phone is fine

  • Kitchen scales in grammes
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Consistency Is Vital

Consistency of Weight

  • Measure 100g of beans
  • Each time!
  • Process consistency results

in output consistency Consistency of Timing

  • Time 1st crack
  • Time when stopped
  • Keep notes!
  • Time varies with

temperature

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Dealing With Variation

Variability

  • Different beans may

perform differently

  • Ambient temperature

affects roast times Big Tip

  • Keep everything else

constant!

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A Few Words About Water

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A Few Words About Water

  • You can’t make good

coffee with bad water

  • Coffee in Naples

considered best in World

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A Few Words About Water

  • Your water may be

fighting with your coffee

  • Overly hard
  • Overly soft
  • Nasty chlorine taste
  • I filter with Brita filters
  • Gives smooth, clear

clean-tasting water

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Preparing For Home Roasting

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Preparing For Home Roasting

Order:

  • Severin roaster
  • Green coffee beans
  • Get a large paper coffee

cup

  • Join my Facebook

Group

facebook.com/groups/homeroastcoffee/

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Preparing For Home Roasting

Get Out

  • Severin roaster
  • Green coffee beans
  • Sieve, collander
  • Heavy pan for cooling
  • Timer
  • Weigh scales
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Preparing For Home Roasting

Do

  • Weigh 100g of green

beans

  • Start timer
  • Start Severin, drop in

beans

  • Monitor & listen for 1st

crack

  • Watch colour
  • Cool beans fast!
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Preparing For Home Roasting

Congratulations, you now know how to roast coffee beans! Leave them 24-48 hours to degass before grinding Grind & prepare your first home roast coffee Repeat as necessary