Wood fire roasted coffee

[Coolbuddie]

Has anybody tried wood fire roasting coffee? I have been experimenting with a modified pellet Grill. They are easy to control the temp but the problem I have is the chaff doesn't come off the bean. Anything I can do about it?

 

[coffeeroastersclub]

I wouldn't bother. I tried it once, not good. Coffee beans do not soak in the good flavor components that meats do. Actually they do not soak in anything. What does happen is that they get covered with a sheen of creosote. Leaves a bitter, biting taste. Not good.

Len

 

[topher]

I saw one in use in Brazil. It was a 120 kilo...I didn't get a chance to taste the coffee but what you say makes sense Len. Can you imagine how big of a pain in the ass maintenance would be on that machine??

 

[ensoluna]

Has anybody tried wood fire roasting coffee? I have been experimenting with a modified pellet Grill. They are easy to control the temp but the problem I have is the chaff doesn't come off the bean. Anything I can do about it?

for peanuts, YES. for roasting green coffee, definitely NO.


Glad that it got something positive going for a change.

 

[MillCityRoasters]

Coffee-Tech Engineering in Israel offers a wood fired version of their 15 kg Ghibli commercial production roaster. It uses a heat exchange system to prevent woodsmoke from tainting the roast.

Ghibli Firewood Commercial | Coffee-tech Engineering

 

[John P]

We used to work with Caffe D'arte back in the day. Mauro is one of the most respected and influential people in the industry, and his wood roasted is worth trying to get an idea of what's possible.
So, Yes, you can do it, AND you can do it well... but it takes a bit more finessing and craft than using a gas or electric powered roaster.

https://secure.caffedarte.com/wood-roasted-coffees

 

[JohnD18]

How in the world do you control the temperature? Sounds like a nightmare.

 

[ensoluna]

Coffee-Tech Engineering in Israel offers a wood fired version of their 15 kg Ghibli commercial production roaster. It uses a heat exchange system to prevent woodsmoke from tainting the roast.

Ghibli Firewood Commercial | Coffee-tech Engineering

Very glad that it got something positive going for a change.

 

[Coolbuddie]

Well I have been roasting it for a while like this with no problem you mentioned. To get the creosote that you mention you would need to use inferior wood Plus were talking about roasting versus smoking which I think you're talking about smoking is done a lot lower temp.

You do realize that coffee was all originally roasted with wood fire there are a lot of places that still do it in over in Italy there's even a few in the United States.

 

[Coolbuddie]

Very easy it has a thermocouple and I can set the temp to whatever I want

 

[Coolbuddie]

I found the answer to my problem the drum was not spinning fast enough to remove the chaff.

 

[Coolbuddie]

Actually maintenance is very easy just dump out the ash and that's it

 

[Coolbuddie]

Here is a wood roasting systems with direct flame mines not so fancy but I can do 3 pounds at a time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIBeku4mgY&sns=em

 

[Coolbuddie]

Coffee-Tech Engineering in Israel offers a wood fired version of their 15 kg Ghibli commercial production roaster. It uses a heat exchange system to prevent woodsmoke from tainting the roast.

Ghibli Firewood Commercial | Coffee-tech Engineering

I looked at it it still uses the wood to impart flavor

 

[coffeeroastersclub]

I looked at it it still uses the wood to impart flavor

I looked at that roaster. First it is a huge roaster with a special firebox. The temps in that firebox are so high that it will not be creating any creosote. Any "flavoring" that it imparts to the beans would be minimal due to such.

Len