Tiny Joy, a home coffee roasting newsletter from Sweet Maria's Coffee (#)

  „That is probably not going to be something you can do after your first 5 or 10 home roasts. Perhaps the first thing you notice is that freshly roasted coffee has greatly enhanced aromatics over store-bought pre-roasted types. And you may notice that beyond these lively aromas there are flavor differences with each coffee, or what we call "cup character." Pre-roasted coffee might have nice "coffee flavor" but as coffee ages it there is a general breakdown of the organic components that express it's character in the cup. If you are a coffee "omnivore" like me, your first response may be that each coffee tastes good in its own right.“

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Coffee Bags for Green Coffee Beans or Roasted Coffee

  „If you are shipping anything, or using these for darker roasts, I strongly suggest the valve bags. Paper ones will, despite the liner, stain with coffee oils. These bags do WONDERS to preserve coffee aromatics! Essentially, they are better coffee storgage than airtight glass since the CO2 from fresh coffee flushes the oxygen out the one way de-gassing valve (which is made by the German firm Bosch), and when you open the bag you can squeeze it while resealing and help force the oxygen out.“

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Why Home Roast? (INeedCoffee.com)

  „I liken it to the difference between home-baked cookies and store-bought cookies. I guarantee that the first batch of coffee you roast in your home will taste better than the coffee roasted in Seattle two or more weeks ago or even that of your local coffee supplier. Also, consider this: right now you probably buy your coffee by the pound, so you only get to enjoy one type of coffee at a time. If you roast your own coffee, you can buy many different types and blends of green coffee.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide

  „Specialty coffees were sold whole-bean, freshly roasted, in stores that offered their customers a wide range of choice in roast style and origin. Commercial coffees were represented by the almost identical contents of cans lined up like fat little percolator-ready soldiers on supermarket shelves.“

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Roasted Coffee Suppliers

  „Supplier of freshly roasted coffee and espresso.  Espresso roast is lighter than typical American espresso yielding a thick espresso with a sweet reddish-brown crema.  Mauro Cipolla was trained in the fine art of espresso roasting and blending in Italy and has brought this tradition to Seattle.  I recommend the Firenze blend which is prepared in the Northern Italian tradition to be mild, aromatic, sweet and smooth. Robusta is undoubtedly used in his blends.“

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Coffee: Resources for home espresso

  „If you live in the U.S., these genuine Italian beans won't necessarily be as freshly roasted as other sources,but they get the roast (and grind, if you buy ground) exactly right for espresso. Having troublemaking espresso? This is a good reference bean, and grind.“

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