Jan 10th 2009: Coffee Roasting Experience

This is our first experience on roasting, and since we dont have the proper coffee roaster, we just following the amateur guide to roast the coffee using frying pan. We believe we will end up with the modern and proper coffee roaster in the near future.
Before the roasting process begin, we preparing some stuff that we will need.


1. Frying pan


2. Gas


3. Stir-stick


4. And the most important the guide book on when the roasting should be stop.



We pour half of the picked green bean into the frying pan and start the roasting process. As per the guidance the bean need to be stirred all the time to get all bean roasted equally. If using the modern roaster, there s the drum which will keep rolling to make sure all the bean got heated and roasted equally.







After 14 minutes stirring, then it came the first crack and we were very happy and excited about it because that's mean we are doing the correct way.
The beans began to turn light brown color as it start the first crack.
And we can see the chaff begin to separated from its bean.
The smell of the coffee began to filled the kitchen area, and it was really smell good.



On the next 10 minutes stirring, the second crack begin to sounding and the color of the bean turning more and more brownish color, and some of them were turned to black which we think it over roasted. Because using the fying pan, we can not make the equalization on roasting the bean. The stage of the roasting that we were targeting was the full city to french roast.
The smell begun to turn stronger and start the smokey smell, the coffee smell didnt as strong as before, and the smoke begun to be seen and filled the kitchen.
After the second crack sounded, we keep stirring for next 5 minutes before we turn off the gas.
After we finish the roasting, it time to get rid off the chaff from the frying pan. And then we use the media to putthe roasted beans.













After the roasting, here come the grinding process for coffee tasting. We grind the roasted coffee using th norm coffee grinder as coarse grind for the tasting.
And as after grinding we brew it using the boiled water (around 80 deg C).
After brewing we were using the drip filter.

The rest of the green bean and roasted beans we kept it on the air-tight container.


















It was the very fine and excited day for us to have the first cup of our very own coffee... Even it was not the best coffee, but we really appreciate the effort of each of us did, and the coffee taste good. Can compare with Starbuck Daily Brew... hahahha....
Great.....
See you in the next article. =)

Happy coffeing...