Thursday, June 1, 2017

New Jersey: Booskerdoo Coffee Co. Opens Roastery Cafe In Asbury Park

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The action in Asbury Park trends east. Ocean air, boardwalk vibes, and a hot new hotel all help. But lately, locals have been hitting up the rising northwest side to caffeinate. There, Booskerdoo Coffee Company has planted its headquarters just over the tracks, uniting a roastery, bakery, and coffee bar over 2,000 square feet. When you’re used to roasting in an 800-square-foot space shared with a cafe, that’s a mighty upgrade.

“Our original space in Monmouth Beach was a nook,” laughs James Caverly, who launched Booskerdoo with wife and head baker Amelia Caverly in 2011. “We had a Diedrich IR-12, and we were running that thing 40 hours a week. The space was just insane.” He’s not joking. Roastmaster Michael Costaney would work from a chair perched atop bags of beans.

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James Caverly

In a way, that image perfectly describes Booskerdoo’s origins. Caverly fell hard for coffee living in New York City and experimented by roasting Colombia Excelso in a pizza pan. It was a smoky affair, but he was hooked. “It wasn’t some fancy micro-lot,” he says, “but we were like holy…”.

Opened in October 2016, Booskerdoo’s Asbury Park flagship now allows the team room to stretch—though not too much room. The bakeshop now has dedicated space, turning out all manner of sweetness. The roaster has been upgraded to a Diedrich CR-25, complemented by a La Marzocco GB5, Mahlkönig grinders, and a Wilbur Curtis drip brewer, plus a Beehouse and Hario pour-over setup.

Vibrant coffee is the result, some with cheeky names for both food and drink reflecting Caverly’s prior life as a writer. Humor extends to the walls, where a painted monkey-astronaut-merman shares space with a lion-cactus-octopus. No, really.

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This is also one of three—count ’em—locations launched in under a year. Not that empire-building was the goal. Originally, only Asbury Park was in the plan, where the tight indie scene was a draw. While building out the space, Caverly was approached by Pier Village in Long Branch, where a shop opened last July will soon be paired with a summertime cold-brew shack. Then Bell Works came knocking. A reimagining of the Bell Labs campus—once home to seven Nobel winners and the birthplace of cellular tech—it blends innovation and lifestyle space, as is the fashion nowadays. A drip bar there will be upgraded to a full-on shop in August.

What hasn’t been lost in all the expansion is a coffee-for-all ethos. “We don’t want to function as a chain,” Caverly says. Walk into the Asbury shop as the sun climbs, and you might find Brooklynites on holiday, construction workers, fishermen, families, and commuters sharing counter space. Whether one wants to geek over a single-origin brew or stick to the basics, they’re welcomed just the same.

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booskerdoo coffee company bakery ashbury new jersey cafe roastery sprudge

“We try to educate the customer about our coffee, but we always start with layman’s terms,” Caverly says. “You see the evolution, plain as day. They start to come back, and suddenly they’re trying different coffees and having fun with it—and it’s completely of their own volition.” It turns out that sometimes the nice guys do win.

Booskerdoo Coffee Company is located at 1321 Memorial Drive, Asbury Park, New Jersey. Visit their official website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Jenn Hall (@jennsarahhall) is a Sprudge contributor who writes about food, culture, and drink from a Jersey-side suburb of Philly. This is her first feature for Sprudge.

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Move Over Matcha: Stonerolled Tea Lattes From London’s Postcard Teas

For American coffee drinkers who have seen beverages like matcha lattes on menus for years, it might come as a surprise to hear that tea lattes are relatively new in British culture.

Given that the country’s split between roughly 50% milky tea drinkers versus 50% black tea drinkers (my empirical and very unscientific observation after nearly a decade of cultural assimilation), you would think that tea lattes with foamed milk were but a small step away from what’s popular now. Yet it’s seen as absolute sacrilege by some to add milk over your teabag before the hot water.

All this is to say: you don’t upset the status quo of tea in the UK. And yet, Postcard Teas has decided to do just that.

It hasn’t been an easy road—it’s taken two years of development to get to the point where the team at Postcard felt it could launch “stonerolled tea,” a stone-ground tea, pressed between two heavy 25-kilogram granite stones, rolling at a slow and steady 33 revolutions per minute. (The clever RPM was originally a joke that turned out to be the optimum speed.) It takes one hour to grind only 60 grams of tea, resulting in a powder that is finer than most matchas, finer even than flour.

The tea is ground slowly to produce less heat and friction during the process, which preserves more flavor and nutrients within. It’s the same principle behind many of the new generation of climate-controlled coffee grinders which seek to keep the temperature low and consistent to preserve the integrity of expensive specialty beans.

Part of the Postcard team’s journey has been discovering one reason why tea lattes, outside of matcha lattes, aren’t more widespread. Out of the 60–70 teas Postcard has in its repertoire, every one of which they tried as stonerolled, they found that very few worked well in textured milk.

Matcha lattes have become popular worldwide, but without added sugar and flavoring, they can be very grassy and even bitter. Postcard wanted something aromatic to evoke the experience of a strong coffee, with no added sugar or flavorings so that the natural flavors of tea come through.

The lineup of stonerolled teas is interesting in that each offering—green, black, and oolong—are all blends. This feels significant, given that both specialty coffee and tea often lean towards showcasing the unique flavors of beans or leaves from a single, specific place. For Postcard Teas, however, it was all about creating a palate-pleasing drink that cafe-goers would find comfortable and familiar enough to make the leap. Each blend is made from teas that are individually roasted, individually stonerolled, and then blended together into the finished powder, ready for finishing with milk.

Currently, you can try these uniquely ground teas in latte form at London’s Prufrock Coffee, where, like their coffees, stonerolled teas are offered in a variety of milk ratios: four ounces like a cortado, six ounces like a flat white, or eight ounces like a cappuccino or latte.

Prufrock’s Jeremy Challender has his favorite combinations: green tea in four ounces of milk to let the slight matcha-like bitterness shine; oolong in six ounces of milk to get the best, maltiest balance of tea and milk; and black tea that can stand up to the sea of milk, offering something really quite similar to a roasty, chocolatey cappuccino.

Prices are comparable to, and even more expensive than, specialty coffee. Customers may balk at £3.40 for a six-ounce drink, especially for “just tea.” However, given the journey the tea takes to get to this stonerolled state, it’s surprising it doesn’t cost more.

Tim D’Offay of Postcard believes that while there is a culture and a buzzing community surrounding coffee, the tea world can be much more insular. What he is hoping for in bringing stonerolled tea to the specialty coffee arena is that it will open up the tea world a bit more and encourage its culture to move forward and become more open. In this mode of cross-cultural exchange, tea would be returning to its roots in a way—all while fueling a new drink perfect for the modern cafe.

Kate Beard (@sbinlondon) is a Sprudge staff writer based in London. Read more Kate Beard on Sprudge.

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Coffee Processing VIDEO Guide: What Is Pulping?

How much do you know about where your coffee comes from? Those beautiful coffee beans are actually the seeds of coffee berries, aka “cherries”. And getting the bean out of the cherry isn’t as easy as you might expect. In fact, it typically requires some form of machinery.

While there are many ways to remove the flesh of the coffee cherry and then dry the beans, all except dry/natural processing require removing the pulp soon after picking. Let’s have a look at how that’s done across the globe.

The Depulping Process

In this video, Behind the Beans takes us through what happens in industrial-sized machines that can sort and depulp coffee cherries. This YouTube vlogger both explains what happens and why it happens, helping you to really understand the process.

It’s worth noting that not all depulping is done in this way – there are differences across regions, machinery, and more. However, this will give you an understanding of the process on many coffee mills and farms.

SEE ALSO: VIDEO: What Is Washed Coffee Processing?

Depulping by “Hand”

Yet in many places, especially in smaller farms, the pulp is removed by “hand” – a process that looks extremely different!

When we say hand, what we really mean is that the depulper is powered by hand rather than by electricity, water, or some other method. Manual depulpers are the most time-consuming and labour-intensive, but of course also the most eco-friendly. These machines also require the producer to be responsible for sorting the coffee beforehand.

Have a look at it in this quick video of processing in Indonesia by Toba Live.

Note: these coffees have not been sorted or selectively picked, and so this will probably become commodity-grade coffee.

SEE ALSO: Origin Insight: How Coffee Farmers Ensure Quality – In 2 VIDEOS

Industrial Depulpers

As you can see from the two videos above, electric-powered depulping machines make processing coffee a lot easier for producers. These types of depulpers range in size and power – and, consequently, in cost!

On large farms, especially in regions like Brazil (the world’s biggest exporter of coffee), you’ll find industrial-sized depulpers. These giant machines tower over the workers operating them, and can get through an astounding amount of cherries at a time – just look at the pile of discarded pulp in this video.

SEE ALSO: 5 Things You Should Know About Brazilian Specialty Coffee

Feature photo credit: Toba Live

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Por qué Debemos Considerar Ofrecer un Solo Shot

Los shots  dobles son tan comunes en el café especial, que muchas cafeterías han eliminado la opción de usar  cestas dobles con portafiltros desnudos. Pero creo que hay buenas razones para apoyar un solo shot. Y con un portafiltro de boquilla, no tiene que ser doble o nada.

English Version: Why You Should Consider Offering Single Shots

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Un shot doble, pero solo se requiere uno.  Credit: J. Loayza

Una o dos canastas, Portafiltro Desnudo Vs con Boquilla

Hay tres diferentes opciones que, nosotros como baristas, podemos elegir:

La canasta de un solo tiro (single shot): extraemos solo un shot a la vez.

Poltrafiltro de boquilla con canasta para tiro doble: extraemos dos shots en dos tazas.

Portafiltro desnudo con canasta para doble tiro: extraemos dos shots en una sola taza.

En el momento, la norma es canasta para doble tiro. De hecho, algunos incluso encuentran la forma de la cesta de un solo tiro que puede llevar a extraer su espresso desigual (aunque esto es discutible, y también varía de acuerdo a la marca y el diseño). Pero todos sabemos lo importante que es la consistencia.

Sin embargo, a menos que la dosis y distribución de la molienda en la canasta y que la presión con el tamper sea horrible, dos espressos de un portafiltro con boquilla es imposible notar la diferencia de cada uno.

Muchas cafeterías de especialidad usan portafiltros desnudos y solo preparan dos shots. El argumento para esto (algunos de los cuales son debatibles) son que esto te permite controlar el flujo y detectar canalización, evitar pérdida de temperatura (ya que el café no toca las boquilla metàlicas), y potencialmente crear una crema densa y atractiva.

Sin embargo, sólo unos pocos de estos se refieren a ¡sabor! La detección de la canalización es útil para el control de calidad, por lo que puede resultar en una extracción más uniforme, pero si estás extrayendo grandes shots de espresso, esto no hará ninguna diferencia en el producto final.

La Experiencia del Cliente

El mayor problema que veo con los shots dobles en portafiltros desnudos es que fuerzan a las personas a tomar más café del que realmente quieren. El espresso puede ser delicioso, pero no debemos olvidar que son bebidas intensas.

Los italianos nos dieron una hermosa tradición, la de un espresso rápido bebido mientras estás parado en el mostrador de un bar atiborrado de gente. Los shots  de espresso sencillo son el tamaño perfecto para esto. Es un acento diminuto pero sabroso en nuestras vidas ocupadas. Y cuando se trata de bebidas a base de leche, muchos clientes quieren experimentar un latte equilibrado y suave – sin tener que beber mucha leche sólo para contrastar el espresso de doble.

La gente merece bebidas a base de leche con un solo shot de espresso. ¿Por qué? Porque el café debería ser para todos.

preparando un flat white

¿Cuántos shots? ¿No debería depender de la preferencias del cliente?  Créditos: Habitat Coffee

¿Qué Pasa con el Doble Ristretto?

El shot doble ristretto: la misma cantidad de café seco como un espresso doble, pero es sólo el tamaño de un solo.

Jim Shulman, uno de los miembros fundadores de SCAA, escribió en 2007 que “en Italia, los disparos tienden a acortarse cuando uno va hacia el sur, para ir junto con la tostiones más oscuras y los granos más gruesos”.

En pocas palabras, ristrettos son una buena idea cuando la tostión es oscura. La reducción de extracción evita extrema amargura. (y , digamos, hace al consumidor sufrir rápidamente).

Pero el café de especialidad le gusta una tostión ​​más ligera y ácida, y los ácidos son uno de los primeros químicos que se extraen en la taza de espresso. Esto significa que, con un rendimiento más corto, puede llegar a alcanzar acidez, salinidad y demasiada intensidad.

Y los ristrettos dobles en bebidas a base de leche, en mi opinión, pueden ser un juego peligroso. Los productos lácteos mezclados con demasiada acidez pueden empezar a saber a yogur – ¡y hay una razón por la que no encontrará eso en la rueda del sabor!

Por supuesto, algunos no están de acuerdo conmigo. Pero yo argumentaría por precaución al extraer un doble ristretto con un café ligeramente tostado. No todos los granos se adaptan a esto.

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Considera los granos que usas. Créditos : Art Bar

El Ángulo de Negocio: Ahorros y Ganancias

Otra de las razones por las que la gente da para justificar portafiltros desnudos y bebidas de shots dobles, es un desperdicio mínimo. Admiro la intención, pero diría que el desperdicio es el mismo. Esto es porque, en vez de mirar el rendimiento, deberíamos considerar el café seco en la cesta.

Los Portafiltros desnudos te darán espressos para una porción. Así que si estás haciendo un capuchino, solo vas a utilizar una taza. Por otro lado, con un portafiltro de doble boquilla, estás obligado a utilizar una taza, más un recipiente para el espresso extra que nadie quiere. Limpiar ese contenedor es siempre molesto, estoy de acuerdo. Pero, al final del día, ambos portafiltros han estado preparando la misma cantidad de café seco (suponiendo que usas una cesta de doble shot con un rango de 14g a 22g).

Sin embargo, si tus clientes ordenan dos cappuccinos de un solo shot, ese doble boquilla aumentará sus ganancias. Por supuesto, si la orden es para cappuccinos de doble shot, esto es irrelevante – pero si un cliente quiere una bebida de un solo shot, disminuirá el desperdicio, ¿no deberíamos ofrecerles esa posibilidad?

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¿No deberíamos dejar que el cliente elija cuántos shots quiere? Crédito:  Sonder Coffee

VER TAMBIÉN: Destrezas para Preparar Espresso: Es Hora de Reinventar la Distribución del Café

Flujo de trabajo

Los beneficios también deben tener en cuenta el flujo de trabajo. El buen flujo de trabajo depende de múltiples factores: diseño de la tienda y de la barra, velocidad del equipo, eficiencia del barista, protocolos … Pero elegir entre bebidas de doble o de un solo shot también puede tener un impacto.

El factor crítico aquí es el tiempo. Imagínese dos pequeñas cafeterías frente a frente en una calle muy concurrida en un pequeño pueblo. Ambas usan máquinas de café espresso de tres grupos y hacen la mayor parte de sus ganancias a través de capuchinos.

La primera cafetería utiliza portafiltros desnudos, el segundo prefiere los picos dobles. El primero necesita un promedio de un minuto para terminar un capuchino, desde dosificar, distribuir, apisonar, y tirar de la toma, a través de vapor y verter. El segundo, porque pueden hacer dos shots en dos tazas diferentes simultáneamente, tiene un tiempo medio de un minuto

para dos cappuccinos.

Por supuesto, esto sólo es relevante para los clientes que quieren un cappuccino de un solo shot. Pero suponiendo que hay una demanda para esto, ¿cuál de estos propietarios de cafetería podrán comprar primero un yate?

tienda de cafe

El debate entre shots doble Vs sencillo puede también tener un impacto en el flujo de trabajo. Créditos: billiamjeans

Flexibilidad

Los portafiltros desnudos lucen sorprendentes. La capacidad de ver el espresso fluir en la taza, con esa crema densa – esto me recuerda porqué nos convertimos en baristas. Pero a veces no son la opción más práctica. Les estamos sirviendo a nuestros clientes, y por lo tanto sus deseos deben venir primero.

Trabajar con portafiltros doble puede abrir nuevas posibilidades. Es cierto que una gama demasiado amplia de productos puede confundir a los clientes – pero un pequeño menú con bebidas distintas que puedes personalizar. Lo llamo buen servicio.

Algunos clientes prefieren shots dobles, pagando un poco más por el espresso extra. Otros optan por shots sencillos y otros un por un shot medio diluido en leche caliente extra. La elección es suya.

A la gente le encanta estar a cargo de sus órdenes de café. Decidir cuántos shots desean en su bebida es simplemente una manera más de que puedan decidir qué tipo de bebida quieren.

Escrito por J. Loayza. Crédito foto: Quentin Café

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Science Behind Coffee Withdrawal

It’s not a lack of coffee that gives me a headache, it’s all the stupid questions that seem to swarm around my uncaffeinated moments. Surely I can’t be required to know with 100% accuracy if I’ve already changed my six-month old daughter’s diaper or not when I haven’t had any coffee. That’s downright unreasonable, right?

Obviously, not having coffee doesn’t have much effect on me, but others aren’t so lucky. Headaches, lethargy, and irritability are just of a few of the side effects of forgoing caffeine. But have you ever wondered why this is? A recent article from Food & Wine examines the science behind the headaches.

As Food & Wine notes, caffeine is still addictive (which sounds a little judgy to me, but whatever), and with not feeding the monkey comes withdrawals.

According to the article, caffeine works by adhering to adenosine receptors in your brain, keeping the neurotransmitter from binding to those receptors. Adenosine slows down brain activity and causes you to feel sleepy, so when caffeine keeps it from binding, it keeps you from feeling sleepy. The brain compensates by creating more and more adenosine. So once you stop drinking coffee, all that adenosine comes back withe a vengeance, causing a strong desire to sleep and a throbbing headache.

So whenever you are feeling foul because of a dearth of coffee, blame your brain. It’s conspiring to make you feel worse. Or don’t ever stop drinking coffee. That’ll show your stupid brain who’s boss.

It’s like that old saying goes, “Distance makes the heart grow fonder, but it makes the head ache stronger.”

Zac Cadwalader is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network.

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East One Coffee Roasters Bring Unfussy Coffee And Fare To Brooklyn

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east one coffee roasters brooklyn new york cafe sprudge

On an unassuming corner in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Carrol Gardens, at the intersection of Carroll and Court Streets, used to be home to a beloved red sauce joint called Casa Rosa. It opened in 1979 and ran a steady business as a local favorite until 2013, when its owners closed down shop for good. But Casa Rosa was never replaced—in fact, the storefront remained vacant for years. That is, until Tom Cummings saw it had come on the market.

“People have, for a while now, been peeking in through the boards and construction to see what’s coming,” Cummings says. Now it’s no secret—East One Coffee Roasters has arrived. “We’ve been soft open for just a few days,” he adds. “And the neighborhood seems to be excited.”

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east one coffee roasters brooklyn new york cafe sprudge

Cummings and his longtime partner, Morten Tjelum, envisioned East One as a space of intersection for exceptional coffee and approachable food—they’re open in the morning to supply patrons with a caffeine fix all the way through dinner service.

“Older women have come in this week,” Cummings says. “And they are like my mom—they tell me about the neighborhood, and we can chat for hours about food and coffee.” East One isn’t Cummings’ first coffee rodeo, however. “I was living in Denmark and the coffee scene wasn’t very good—around 1996,” he says. He spent that time owning an American restaurant in Central Copenhagen before selling it to work for IKEA, where he stayed for 15 years.

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east one coffee roasters brooklyn new york cafe sprudge

“But I couldn’t shake the coffee thoughts I was having,” Cummings says. “So I decided to do the independent thing and we opened New Row Coffee. You know, it’s quite simple, I’ve been in food all my life—from watching my family cook when I was young, to having my own places all over. But this was when I became truly introspective and thoughtful, and coffee just felt like my life was taking me towards it.”

It was also taking him toward New York, where he’d be inspired by Ninth Street Espresso before opening Free State Coffee, also alongside Tjelum. Here they fiddled with batch brews and deepened a passion for their product. “Coffee is all about bringing multifaceted people that can do great things,” Cummings says. “And so we brought that to New York.”

Waiting for them was James Stahon, East One’s head of coffee (the three met through Sprudge Jobs), who now roasts on-site in a gorgeous glassed-in area with a Diedrich IR-12.

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east one coffee roasters brooklyn new york cafe sprudge

“I tasked James to find blends that were acceptable to the mass palate of New York,” Cummings says. “But isn’t a typical city roast so often found in this town. We wanted to stretch that palate—and that’s the longer term vision for us.” East One currently serves an everyday coffee for local New Yorkers, but will soon buy seasonally from individual lots and offer those coffees as lighter-roasted options.

“We currently work with Crop to Cup, who let me work before we had our own space,” Stahon says. “We source three coffees from them—Sonar, a blend from Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Tanzania; Guji, which is an Ethiopian Sidamo; and then Prism which is the filter blend, [and] also Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.”

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east one coffee roasters brooklyn new york cafe sprudge

He explains that the process of finding a flexible coffee, for use as both drip and espresso offerings, was lengthy. “I started the sourcing process not at the best time—it was in the off-season so I couldn’t find fresh arrivals,” Stahon says. “We did so many cuppings looking for the perfect components. I didn’t want that fermenty taste—we wanted a quieter taste.” Now he feels as though he has it.

Next on Stahon’s agenda is finding single-origin coffees to “exercise the muscles of taste,” he says. “We want to challenge ourselves and our clients but to remain approachable. And that means slightly stepping outside of what you think coffee could be.”

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Selina Ullrich, East One’s coffee and operations manager, echoes Stahon. “This neighborhood is also ready to be challenged. You can actually make progress with a good explanation,” she says, adding that there’s a certain pleasure in watching customers move from “this won’t stress you out coffee” to more complex cups.

In appreciation of the role water plays in the coffee process, East One will support international charities focused on clean water initiatives. One of the first examples is Three Avocados, a non-profit dedicated to bolstering access to clean water in coffee-growing regions.

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For those in the area, this may just be your new favorite neighborhood cafe. But with a strong local base, it won’t be long before the East One corner is a destination worth traveling to.

East One Coffee Roasters is located at 384 Court Street, Brooklyn. Visit their official website and follow them on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram.

Daniel Scheffler is a Sprudge staff writer at large. His work has appeared in T MagazineTravel And LeisureMonoclePlayboyNew York MagazineThe New York Times, and Butt. Read more Daniel Scheffler on Sprudge.

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Roaster VIDEO Guide: How to Blend Coffees

There’s no doubt about it: roasting blends is trickier than roasting single origins. But every roaster needs to master this skill if they want to operate commercially.

Fortunately, Mill City Roasters have created an excellent video tutorial on the topic. And as you learn more about it, you’ll discover that roasting coffee blends will help you understand roasting in general, and coffee flavours, in even greater detail.

So get your notebook ready, because this curated video guide is full of useful advice.

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All commercial roasters need to be able to roast blends. Credit: Aaron Gustafson via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How to Roast Coffee Blends

This comprehensive video will tell you everything that you, as a newcomer to roasting blends, need to know. Although the video is actually an hour long, we’ve set it to start at 25:20, which is when Mill City Roasters actually begin looking at how to blend.

They team start off with the basics: why should brands have blends? Which coffees work better as blends, and which coffees work better as single origins?

Then the video moves onto more complex aspects of creating blends. How do you create the best balance in a blend? How do you decide on, and refine, a ratio? How many coffees should be used in a blend – and how can you create more continuity when changing those coffees (due to seasonal availability)?

It then starts to get a little more advanced when the pair look at when to blend – pre or post-roast. While both are popular options, Joe Marocco convincingly makes the case for the former.

SEE ALSO: Roasting VIDEO Tips: How to Make Coffee Blends

Even More Technical Details

Want to learn even more technical details? Here’s another clip from earlier in the same video, and it also looks at the details of blending. Specifically, it answers a question from the viewers: how should you roast blends that have beans with different moisture levels? (Hint: think less about moisture, and more about density.)

We’ve set the video to begin as soon as Dave and Joe answer that question. But remember that, if you keep watching, the video will move on to discuss aroma in roasting.

SEE ALSO: Roaster Basics: How to Roast Hard & Soft Beans

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