Recent content by RichHelms

Thanks Rose. I roast coffee and do work on roast profile software. I am always interested in new ways to enjoy coffee. The Coffee Troupe site is where I document my findings.

Recently I bought a commercial blender to make fruit smoothies. Being a coffee junkie I wanted a coffee smoothie recipe. Most recipes I found started with instant coffee – not going to happen. I tried making strong hot coffee, adding milk, sugar and ice and blending. The result was a bland cool...

I add a dark chocolate hint by adding some East Timor beans. The East Timor beans have a strong dark chocolate note. By themself I found them too strong. At 20% they make a nice blend.

A few answers (a) How long do they store for? Green coffee can be stored for a year. Keep in a sealed plastic container (b) what is the smallest amount you can buy? Usually a pound. You want enough to do a few roasts as it will take a few to discover the coffee's characteristics and what kind...

if you want to read about roasting read Home Coffee Roasting: Romance and Revival (Paperback) by Kenneth Davids (Author) It is the most popular of the home roasting intros. It is the one I started with.

Thanks for the welcome Rose Thanks for the welcome. I enjoy discussing coffee roasting.

Degassing Commercially coffee using extremely high speed roasting will degas almost immediately when ground but traditionally roasted coffee will degas for about 24 hours. In the experiment referenced above I measured the degassing