Did you say home roasting?

Here is a cool video about roasting coffee at home in a hot air popcorn popper. This is the method I used in the first years of my coffee quests. It is a great way to make the freshest coffee at home. There are other methods, but I will share those later. For now, watch and listen. He brings up a lot of good points. Ultimately, roasting coffee at home is the best way to get fresh roasted coffee to your liking.

So now you have an interest in trying your hand at home roasting. Where do you start? Well, the most important place to start with with your coffee. Unroasted coffee is green. Here are some green coffee basics. The world's coffees are many and their differences complex. The ultimate test of a coffee is not its name or its grade, or any of the rest of the muttering that we attach to things, but rather its taste. If you try it and like it - it's a good coffee. If you don't like it, then don't use it and ignore anything that might convince you to continue to use it.

Here is the quick and dirty of some classics. Quality coffees in the classic mode are produced in many regions of Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean and South America, as well as in Hawaii. The most consistently celebrated coffees come from the highlands of Guatemala - Antigua, Coban and Huehuetenango, and Costa Rica - Tarrazu and Tres Rios and Colombia. Hawaiian Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain are famous coffees but run on the expensive and rather controversial side of the coffee world.

Sweet Maria's is a great resource for home roasting green beans. Try it out and you will open your mind to the world of coffee. This is just the tip of the coffee world. But it is a great place to start!