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Why Coffee Shops Should Roast In-House

Posted on February 27, 2021 at 9:00 am by / 0
Why should you roast your own coffee? Coffee consumers everywhere are demanding more and better coffee. Although the coffee business has become more competitive, in many markets quality coffee can still be surprisingly hard to find. Coffee is a story and one of the greatest benefits to roasting coffee in-house is simply to take charge… Read More
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What the heck is RoastPATH?

Posted on February 25, 2021 at 12:14 pm by / 1 Comment
In the pursuit of better coffee, Mill City Roasters was the first manufacturer to embrace datalogging as a “standard” feature on all of our models. For years, Mill City Roasters pioneered and championed the use of Artisan and Cropster for several years even going so far as to contribute to the Artisan build library and provided Phidget… Read More
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Roasting 101 Resource: Connecting with us on Zoom

Posted on June 1, 2020 at 12:03 pm by / 0
This is a guide for students who are enrolled in our remote roasting classes, hosted on Zoom. During the class, we will be leading demonstrations and facilitating conversations using the video feature and the chat box. Below are some instructions for connecting via Zoom.    Before the session begins:  You will be able to connect… Read More
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Is Mill City Roasters a Chinese brand?

Posted on May 4, 2020 at 2:17 pm by / 0
Comment from What’s the Best Coffee Roaster? on Youtube: holly1 day ago Thanks for your input, it is still an opinon from a chinese brand whose competitive advantage was price. But you got a few points clear, there’s market paranoia and some brands are cutting corners somewhere and pressing with bulls** arguments. I’m shure this… Read More
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Roasters + Baristas: Information Exchange

Posted on April 20, 2020 at 3:40 pm by / 0
Welcome back to our ongoing educational series in which we find ways to bridge the gap between the roaster and the barista. In our last post, we explained the importance of using the same brew methods to help calibrate the language that roasters and baristas use about a coffee’s flavor. We recommended that roasters try… Read More
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Roasters + Baristas: We Can Work it Out

Posted on April 14, 2020 at 12:43 pm by / 0
Welcome to a new educational series in which we find ways to bridge the gap between the roaster and the barista, whose common goal of serving great coffee can be achieved by finding some common ground. This will be a ongoing series with new topics posted regularly – so check back frequently for more posts. … Read More
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Mill City Picks: Home Brewing Equipment

Posted on April 2, 2020 at 1:00 pm by / 0
Following an upward trend over the past several years, many specialty coffee customers are enjoying their favorite beverage in a new locale: their homes. Home brewing is on the rise, and equipment manufacturers are rising to meet the occasion. There’s something for everyone in the home brewing market, from beautiful single cup pour over cones,… Read More
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Mill City earns CSA Design Certification – an industry first.

Posted on December 19, 2019 at 12:36 pm by / 1 Comment
Mill City Roasters recently earned the world’s first CSA Design Certification for coffee roasters. We’ve outlined below what this certification is, how it is beneficial to our Mill City customers and what comes next. About CSA: The Canadian Standards Association, or CSA, is a ‘Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory’, (abbreviated as NRTL and commonly referred to… Read More
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Mill City + Glitter Cat Bootcamp

Posted on July 18, 2019 at 2:51 pm by / 0
Following on the wildly successful high heels of its inaugural year, Glitter Cat Bootcamp is gearing up to launch its 2020 season. Glitter Cat Bootcamp is an intensive training program offered to members of marginalized communities who are interested in participating in the US Coffee Championships. While last year’s program focused solely on the Barista… Read More
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Big Red Roast Rig is hitting the road again

Posted on July 18, 2019 at 1:57 pm by / 0
After a recent five-city tour, Mill City Roaster’s “Big Red Roast Rig” is hitting the road again, and this time, it’s pulling into two of the more high profile coffee events of the summer: Coffee Roasters Guild Retreat and Coffee Fest L.A. That’s right, Big Red is rolling from Minnesota to Atlanta, from Atlanta to… Read More
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Coffee Fest Classes: What’s Up With The Donations?

Posted on July 5, 2019 at 12:00 pm by / 0
In case you haven’t noticed, there are some big problems on the US border. No matter your political leaning or views and no matter what the cause, detention facilities are catastrophically overcrowded and the US government workers manning those facilities are floundering trying to cope.  People are suffering down there and worse their kids are… Read More
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Dogwood in Sprudge

Posted on April 29, 2019 at 9:50 am by / 0
Our hometown friends at Dogwood Coffee Co have just been featured in Sprudge. The roastery-cafe was intentionally designed to be functional, welcoming, playful and uniquely Dogwood. Their 30kg and 500g Mill City Roasters are helping them to sample, profile and bring quality-driven coffees into production. In addition to their roasters, Dogwood is using a prototype hydraulic… Read More
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Mill City Roasters at SCA Expo 2018

Posted on March 13, 2018 at 4:30 pm by / 0
The biggest thing we’ll be doing in 2018 is decamping to the Seattle State Convention Center for the SCA Expo April 19th-22nd. This year we’ll be shipping 9 roasters ranging from 500 gram to 30 kg capacity including two 3 kg roasters in the subterranean Roasters Guild training area where we’ll be supplying machines as… Read More
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Minneroasta 2017 – 1st Annual Coffee Roasting Event

Posted on September 25, 2017 at 6:23 am by / 0
For those of you who haven’t heard, over the last couple of years Minneapolis, Minnesota has a developed extraordinarily vibrant coffee community. Here’s a very abbreviated list of local companies you probably know or probably should know: Caribou Coffee Cafe Imports Dunn Brothers Mill City Roasters Buhler Peace Coffee Dogwood Coffee Spyhouse Bootstrap Up B&W… Read More
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How do our large roasters compare?

Posted on September 10, 2017 at 7:28 am by / 0
Ridiculous. Our machines are constructed as solid plate steel weldments. They are heavier and quieter than almost everything on the market, and just happen to be robust and powerful enough to profile roast full batch sizes for as long as you care to stand there. The only people talking about continuous use or vibration problems… Read More
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Roasters Guild Retreat 2017

Posted on May 26, 2017 at 2:11 pm by / 1 Comment
The 2017 Roasters Guild Retreat will be held at Legacy Lake Lanier in Buford Georgia from August 17th through 20th. The weekend long retreat offers the opportunity to connect with other roasters and deepen attendees understanding of and appreciation for the craft. “Education and open discussion of issues has always been at the core of  Retreat,… Read More
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