Bob has been roasting our coffee beans for nearly ten years. It’s sort of a money-saving venture because green beans cost less than half of roasted beans, and they stay fresh at room temperature for years.
This is Bob’s coffee drawer. He has a few ten lb bags of green beans, and two jars of freshly roast coffee. He says that after the beans are roasted, they need to stay in a jar for three days for optimal flavor development.
This is our current home roaster, the i-Roast 2. This roaster costs $180, and they don’t last that long. We’re on our third roaster in ten years, and we just drink one or two cups a day. Roasting your own coffee saves a little money but not a lot. The real draw is choosing your green beans.
When I pull up the list of beans from sweetmarias.com, sure enough the first thing I see is a coffee grown by Guyami indians in Central America that is pulped in a creek and paddled downriver by canoe. Our last batch of beans came from a small farmer in Rwanda, and I practically knew the name of his cow. This part of the global economy, that allows me to support a Rwandan farmer directly from Durango–I like it.
How interesting….didn’t know people could roast their own bean supply. And I thought it all ended with Starbucks. Learn something new here every day! Keep up the good work, and, have a great weekend!