Shef Otis grabs the mic from Garrick and asks him about podcasting, Cullect, coffee roasting, and parenting. [43 min].
Category Archives: Roasting
Minneapolis / St. Paul Roasters Meetup
via Jared on the Sweet Marias mailing list: Minneapolis area roasters. We have a date, June 30 a time 2pm and a location Black Sheep Coffee Cafe (705 Southview Blvd., South Saint Paul, MN (651) 554-0155) For those of you who missed the early posts Peter Middlecamp the owner of Black Sheep is both a …
First Crack 99. Jeremy Raths and the Search for Extraordinary Coffee
We catch up with Twin Cities coffee legend Jeremy Raths and talk about: Moving The Roastery from a coffee shop in the middle of St. Paul to delivering coffee from an abandon convent. The history of the speciality coffee market – nationally and locally. How the coffee market is changing to benefit the small, local, …
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Home Roasting Hack Method #2
“BREAD MACHINES AND HEAT GUNS WERE NEVER DESIGNED TO ROAST COFFEE” There are three problems I’ve run into since roasting with the Poppery Small batch sizes (a maximum of 1/2 cup at a time) Inconsistent roast times (the Poppery continually gets hotter – shorting roasts, burning beans) The ambient temperature needs to be warm. So, …
Coffee Snobs Move on to Homemade Roasts
I’m finally making my home office more comfortable, so I can spend more focused and productive time without getting distracted by the rest of the house. One of the things that crossed my mind was installing a small batch coffee roaster. Then friend of the show Pete T. points me to the NYTimes article on …
First Crack 63. Coffee Technology with Timothy Tulloch of EuroRoast.com
Timoth Tulloch, CEO and Roastmaster at Minnesota-based European Roasterie (EuroRoast.com), and I talk coffee technology, from brewing to packaging, and why he’s aggressively moving into the single-serve coffee pod program (declaring the Black & Decker Home Cafe the best pod brewer). We wrap up with the culture of specialty coffee and how independent coffee shops …
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First Crack 41. Home Roasting with Sam Buchanan
Sam Buchanan and I roast up a couple of batches in my garage and talk about home roasting and coffee tasting techniques. Oh, and I celebrate Uchenna and Joyce, the winners of CBS’s Amazing Race 7. Listen to Home Roasting with Sam Buchanan [9 min]
First Crack 36. The First Home Roast of the Spring
In celebration of the first great day of spring, I dust off the West Bend Poppery and roast up some Aged Sumatra. Then brew up some iced coffee in my Toddy Maker Cold Brew Coffee Maker. Things mentioned: Home Renovation Coffee by Kenneth Davids Listen to the First Home Roast of the Spring [12 min] …
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First Crack 16. Interview with a Roastmaster: Greg Beale
Greg Beale, a Dunn Bros. Coffee roastmaster, and I roast 8 pounds of Colombian beans, discuss holiday brewing tips, and the local flavors of the Dunn Bros shops. Intro: PodCat from PodCat’s Daily Best of Podcasting. Listen to Interview with a Roastmaster: Greg Beale [38 min] Got questions about coffee or comments about the show? …
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First Crack 05. Roasting at Home
I walk you through roasting coffee at home with a WestBend Poppery air popcorn popper and bean from Sweet Marias and dig into the promise of RSS as a distribution channel. Intro: Tod Maffin & Sean from I Love Radio. Listen to Roasting at Home [13 min]