Why roast your own coffee? (Home roasting tutorial 1/4)

This is part 1 of our coffee tutorial for home roasters .
This series teaches you everything you need to know to easily roast delicious coffee yourself .

This allows a A new and wonderful taste journey start for you.
There is a [link/reference] for each part of the tutorial. Accompanying video .

• In the Part 2 → you'll find out, what you need for home roasting .

• In the Part 3 → you will find out, how to use a home roaster For example, you can roast filter coffee.

• And in Part 4 → we'll show you how You can even roast an espresso in the oven .

Have fun!

8 Reasons for home roasting

There are several reasons why roasting coffee at home is advantageous for you.
We explain them in detail in the video that you can find below.
Alternatively, you can read all about it here:

1. Check

You can change the taste of your coffee
by influencing the degree of roasting.

→ If you Fruitiness of a filter coffee If you like it, the roast should be rather light.
→ If you in turn the full body of an Italian espresso If you prefer a darker roast, it should be on the darker side.
→ Or maybe you're just in the mood to experiment and try out your Morning coffee, cinnamon-colored try?

You can do all of this if you roasting at home , since you You decide for yourself which roast level suits your taste.

2. Quality

You can drink high-quality coffee ,
by controlling the quality of the beans you roast.

For this you need the (unroasted) green coffee beans from trusted sources Buy some. Perhaps you visited a finca in Mexico that enchanted you with its coffee, or you know a coffee roaster who sells coffee that tastes especially delicious to you?

→ We source our green coffee beans, for example, from Señor Jaime Garcia in ▽ Colombia , which we know each other personally.
→ Furthermore, we have the green coffee beans that we offer you, of course tasted it myself and are thrilled with the taste.

3. Exclusivity

You can experience an exclusive and unique taste from a selected region.
or even experience a coffee farm without having to fly there.

This will broaden your coffee horizons and turn you into a true expert. Of course, you can also get a taste of select coffee excellence from us:

→ Jaime's Specialty Green Coffee Beans are grown in the Colombian mountains and are characterized by full body and sweet taste It smells of honey, mandarin orange, and chocolate.
→ The coffee is especially appreciated because Señor Jaime has been serving it for over 30 years. experimented with new cultivation and processing methods and has achieved a unique coffee taste through his experience.

4. Freshness

If you're looking for a good source for your coffee ,
You should generally make sure that it comes from the current harvest and has therefore been freshly picked .

That is Crucial for the taste . In our case, the coffee was picked between November 2019 and February 2020. After roasting your own coffee, you can, of course, drink it as fresh as you could even get from your local roaster.

Freshly roasted coffee is also the most aromatic.
and exhibits a unique complexity of flavor .

5. Health

A pack of high-quality green coffee beans contains
only freshly picked and dried coffee cherry seeds and no other additives.

If you organically grown are, as in the case of our green coffee beans, a 100% natural product .

6. Simplicity

With just 15 minutes per week and the simplest kitchen appliances, such as... a convection oven or With a simple home roaster , you can achieve amazing results. If you use high-quality green coffee beans, your morning cup of coffee will definitely fall into the specialty coffee category.

7th prize

If you roast yourself ,
do you pay – at least in Germany – fewer .

In this country there is a Coffee tax , which is €2.19 per kilo of roasted coffee. This is always included in the price of the roasted coffee you buy. In other words, If you roast it yourself, you don't pay this tax.

8. Fairness

If you buy from a company that operates with complete transparency,
You decide directly where your money goes .

→ We buy directly from farmers like Jaime Garcia and his cooperative Red Ecolsierra and participate in 10% of our profit .

Of course, you could also choose a coffee farm on your next holiday in Ethiopia or Bali, taste the coffee there, and have it delivered directly to your home!

That was the Part 1 of our coffee tutorial for home roasters . This series teaches you everything you need to know to easily roast delicious coffee yourself. This will enable a new A magnificent culinary journey for you to start. There is a [link/postal code] for each part of the tutorial. Accompanying video .
We hope you enjoyed it.