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    Re: Buying coffee to bring home?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kritter View Post
    The best alternative, of course, is to trek up to the top of the mountain, meet the people that grow the beans, taste the fresh berries, enjoy freshly roasted coffee in the altitude of the Blue Mountain, and take plenty pics so that you always have memories. Alternatively, once you get your beans home ...... try roasting (or re-roasting) your beans in a hot skill for a minute before you put your beans in a coffee grinder.....brings back a bit of fresh roast flavor!!
    obviously i agree with everything about going up into the mountains except re-roasting your coffee? that makes zero sense to me as someone who has some experience as a home roaster and also having roasted a few hundred pounds in the blue mountains- it sounds like a recipe for introducing a charred taste...nobody I know or ever saw roast would think of stopping the roast then starting it again later.

    everything is to taste of course but JBM is a pricey coffee and if you want that vienna or very dark roast flavor profile there is no need to destroy JBM by taking it past second crack. when you roast coffee you will literally hear the coffee cracking as it goes through the roasting cycle.

    further to the ultimate enjoyment bit and getting back to a previous poster's query you also want to get yourself a burr grinder, NOT a blade grinder- for the exact reason that you don't want to heat up the beans mechanically. A blade grinder basically chops up the beans and often results in uneven grinding. With a burr, the beans are crushed between metal edged plates so to speak. You get a much more evenly ground coffee bean, which results in a better flavored cup.

    For the French Press, you want a fairly coarse grind, so that the coffee doesn't slip past the screen in the press.

    another tip I would offer is to put a small dash of salt in your cup. like adding a dash of water to a fine single malt, it will open up the many flavors there are to discover and enjoy in a good brewed cup of JBM.
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    Re: Buying coffee to bring home?

    here is the machine I have been using for YEARS, it's awesome, it gives you the ability to create different roast cycles or profiles- basically that means you can set the temp you want to run for the amount of minutes you want, slowly bringing the beans up to temp then starting to roast them at higher temps is the general rule of thumb. but how you put that cycle together brings out certain nuances in the beans, the various flavors, like the wineyness, the cocoa, the nutty flavours...

    anyway here's the machine.

    https://www.i-roast.com/
    "I beseech thee, my lord , let this venture be mine..."

    -Sir Gawain

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