Roasting: Basics and Beyond

Here are some very basic operating tips for the SR800 (and, by extrapolation, other FreshRoast home roasting units). We believe these tips will help you get better performance out-of-the-gates and...

This is a step-by-step guide to roasting green coffee with a popcorn popper. Read all of this before starting out. Read This First: Roasting coffee uses very hot temperatures and can...

1-Drying 2-Yellowing 3-First Crack 4-Roast Development 5-Second Crack 6-"Carbonizing" 7-Quenching 8-Resting Light or dark. How do you like it? Often folks will talk about a coffee roast in simplified terms...

Total Surprise. One of our friends recently roasted up some of our Ethiopia Guji natural process coffee. He had no idea what he was in for. He said he was “blown...

Read about it below or jump right to our home roaster kits:   Home Roasting really is way better, super easy and very inexpensive When I think back to the...