DavidBB Senior Member Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 166 Location: Alberta Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Sun May 11, 2008, 4:08pm Subject: How much of your home roast do you actually drink?
After having people drop in this weekend hoping I'd offer a coffee (I did) I started to wonder how much of my roasts I actually consummed myself. I did some rough calculations and came up with a number between 25 - 30 %. I always give roasted beans away to folks who really love the roast, up to half of a 1000g batch, though not always that much. On days off, someone is always over for coffee so I rarely drink alone ( my wife isn't a coffee drinker). So it looks like on the high side I drink 30% of what I roast. I don't consider myself a nice guy and I don't have a lot of friends so I'm thinking that some of you nice and gregarious folk out there would getting even less of your home brew.
"Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep".
jaybrad Junior Member Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Maine Expertise: I like coffee
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Posted Sun May 11, 2008, 5:58pm Subject: Re: How much of your home roast do you actually drink?
I probably give away about 1/3 of what I roast - and lots of green beans to those who want to get started with home roasting.
I got introduced to this great hobby by a friend who did the same thing for me many months ago, and now it seems like the least I can do is pass it along to others.
Ha! an honest man! Craig, you roast every day?! Honestly, I wish I could find it in me to give more coffee away. The truth is, I find homeroasting a little messy and don't really enjoy all of the set up and take down required to do it and want it to last as long as possible so that I can avoid the work. If fact, I'm so selfish I sometimes only offer my guests the option of tea or juice! But there is great satisfaction in having people comment on how good the coffee is when I do serve it. But I've not yet served a guest that liked it enough to start roasting their own. Barry.
Posted Thu Jun 12, 2008, 12:31pm Subject: Re: How much of your home roast do you actually drink?
This is a great question.
I find that I end up drinking about 20% of the coffee I roast at home. So far I've managed to get four others hooked on fresh coffee. Hooked to the point where they're offering to buy greens and asking if I can roast them for them. One has actually purchased a Freshroast and in the few short months he's been at it continues to be amazed at how good the coffee he's roasting really is. He ended up taking a French press and some fresh coffee to work and turned three co-workers onto the joys of freshly roasted coffee.
One buddy of mine who doesn't drink coffee (I know, I need better friends. haha) sarcastically thanked me for getting his wife hooked on the stuff. I told him to be thankful it was coffee and not heroin. :)
So I continue to give away half pound bags of my home roasts. The comments are always positive and sometimes downright gushing. Not bad considering I still don't really know what I'm doing. What a blast.
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