Saturday, June 19, 2004


home roasting in bklyn

long-time readers know that in my snooty co-op i can't roast my own coffee, even tho' i was so kindly given a zach & dani's home coffee roaster by don schoenholt of gillies.

thus the little roaster sat mournfully about the house.

when -- ah how fate intervenes! -- what should happen but that at the recent meeting of the st. john's alumni here in nyc i run into another johnnie with an interest in coffee?

he lives in carroll gardens, and had just been given a sack of green rwandan coffee that he didn't know what to do with.

some coffee lovers are quite passionate about home roasting, because it's relatively simple and can offer the freshest coffee imaginable. if you live far from an artisan specialty coffee boutique-type roaster (a.k.a. "brownie"), and those mail-order shipping fees are piling up, home roasting your own can be a great alternative.

for those of you interested in home roasting, i highly recommend you hop over to alt.coffee, where the community is quite expert in getting decent coffee from the various home-roasting devices.

well there it was! last night he dropped by and i lent him the roaster. i expect he'll be experimenting with it today and possibly produce drinkable coffee with it as early as tomorrow.

i'm fortunate here in that while i can't home roast, i am close to several exquisite brownies who cater to cafénatics like myself by lovingly hand-crafting the highest quality beans. . .

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