It’s TIME! I took your questions over on our Mewe group all about what you want to know about starting a home or craft roasting business. Today will be the first in a series of home roasting podcasts and we will talk about learning to roast.

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Stump the Sauce

• Low saliva update from Mark

Episode 453 - Learning to Roast, Home Coffee Business Part 1

The more I learn about it, the less I know about coffee.

• Coffee cherries, processing beans, getting green beans
• What happens when you roast
• Can you reroast?
• Light, medium, dark, etc roasts
• Mallaird reaction, sugars, flavors, slow vs fast roast
• Chaff
• First crack, second crack, FIRE!
• Cooling
• “The trace” and software in coffee
• The role of beans in roasting
• Drum vs air roasting 
• Ways to roast without specialized equipment
• Home roasters: Behmore, Gene Cafe, Nesco, Hottop
• Home roasters, small roasters, commercial roasters
• Volume matters
• Low acid/stomach issues

Membership Plug

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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• Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
• Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
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Advisory Board

• The Booze Whisperer
• The Tactical Redneck
• Chef Brett
• Samantha the Savings Ninja

Resources

• Membership Sign Up
• Holler Roast Coffee