I have been roasting coffee for many years now starting with a Hot Air popper “Presto Pops lite” and then I invested in a Fresh Roast SR 540 with the Extension tube (the extension tube is a must for the SR-540 in my opinion). Overall, I have roasted coffee at the same speed i.e. <10 […]

I roasted some Guatemala coffee to full city (post second crack) yesterday and I really do not like it that dark. I will try to roast it to city roast to see if it improves. The coffee exhibited bitter and sharp after taste and burned taste. If the city roast is not better then it […]

I order some some coffee called Wolo Wio from the Indonesian island Flores for the first time and roasted it today to after first crack and but not into second crack and to about 450 degrees F. I bought this coffee not for its rating or description but simply because the name was so fun […]

I’m drinking the last of the Guatemala coffee that I roasted and I have the TV playing a YouTube fireplace video with acoustic guitar music. I like the TV fireplace much better than a real fireplace because you get almost all of the ambiance, sound, Light, calming effect of watching a fire burn with out […]

Earlier this year I replaced my Poplite Popcorn popper coffee roaster with a Fresh Roast SR540 Coffee roaster and started using it to roast coffee and I was initially not very pleased with the roaster because the beans did not move very well and roasted unevenly. In addition the temperature was not hot enough to […]