Roasting Coffee
My Coffee Cabinet
Once you have roasted your own, you will have embarked on the path few leave. After getting in the driver’s seat of your coffee experience, after having control over every aspect of the coffee, after experiencing just how good coffee can be, nothing on the store shelf can remotely compare, no matter how many artificial flavors they stuff in there. In short, you are transformed into a coffee snob. My journey began about ten years ago. And thanks to the internet. In my research – an act of self-improvement that my wife calls playing – I came across the home-roasting coffee possibility. And I came across Sweet Maria’s – a company owned and run by Tom that imports coffee after meticulously cupping each lot and determining it was of the quality he demanded. I was amazed at how easy roasting is – his website opened a whole new world of culinary possibilities. Each coffee from each region is distinctively different – I was essentially able to tour the world in my cup.
