Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
Put Good In: Todd and Mary Jo Satterfield and 129 Coffee Roasters
The Satterfields live in Coats, North Carolina; they are two in a town of seven thousand. Each weekday morning, they wake up and drive to Dunn, the home of their 8-5 office jobs as insurance agents for Allstate. The job lets them help people: something they’re good at, and something they’ve dedicated their lives to. … Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
Last Mile To Open Later This Summer
We first met Arick and his team when they joined us for Roasting 101 in April. Their entire team attended class to better understand the science and craft of speciality coffee. This class allows participants to“hit the ground running” when they begin roasting their own coffee. The hands on experience also helped foster a better understanding… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
Honest Roasting: Charlie Hansen and Dandy Lion Coffee
Charlie didn’t start in coffee. He started by roasting dandelion roots. Before that, he started in videography. And media marketing. And architecture. In everything, he finds meaningful work with his hands. “There’s craftiness built into me,” he says. At first, coffee didn’t occur to him as a career choice, or even as a beverage option.… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment
Mill City Digital vs Manually Controlled Roasters?
All Mill City Roasters have double walled drums, monolithic welded chassis, variable fan and drum speed, dedicated cooling fans, and integrated data logging. Drum pressure is a feedback loop for fan speed. Drum speed control allows an operator to tune the machine for better performance across a broad range of batch sizes. Our manually controlled… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
Golden Lantern Launches In Laguna Beach
Congratulations to co-founders Misha Mansoor and Matt Rosenblum on their new roastery in Laguna Beach, California! The brand new space features a MCR-15, tasting room and pro shop. Specializing in small batch speciality coffee, the roastery also offers catering, wholesale, consulting and education. To learn more about Golden Lantern Coffee Roasters, or join their Caffeine… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Designing for Coffee, Roaster News
Sprudge 2022 Build-Outs Is Open For Submissions
Submissions are now open for the Sprudge 2022 season of Build-Outs. An annual tradition at Sprudge since 2012, the showcase features cafe build-outs around the world. New cafes that opened at any point in 2022 or cafes presently under construction with plans to open in 2022 will be accepted. Mill City is excited to be… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
BLK & Bold Is Hiring In Des Moines
We occasionally hear about our friends roasting across the country that are in need of professional people to join their organizations. If you have a position in your roastery and would like to let us know please contact us. Position: Roaster (Manufacturer), Full Time Company: BLK & Bold Specialty Beverages Headquarters Location: 5016 Park Avenue, Des… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories
Food & Wine Releases List of Best Coffee Roasters in the US
Congratulations to our friends who took home the title of best Coffee Roastery! Resident Coffee Roasters, Florida Portrait Coffee, Georgia Dogwood Coffee, Minnesota Coffea Roasterie, South Dakota Lost Sock Roasters, Washington, DC Bean Fruit Coffee, Mississippi Revel Coffee Roasters, Montana Read the full article here Resident Coffee Roasters, Florida Portrait Coffee, Georgia Coffea Roasterie, South Dakota Bean Fruit Coffee, Mississippi Dogwood Coffee,… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment, Roaster News
Best Commercial Coffee Roaster: the myth of the “perfect” roaster.
I’ve been hanging around commercial coffee for awhile and I don’t normally search the internet for the “best commercial coffee roaster”. Recently though. I’ve been inundated with spam and internet ads and breathless paid placement new product release articles and a proliferation of weaponized click bait sites. I can only imagine that the marketing departments… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment, Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Roaster News, Start, Scale, Sustain
BTU per pound? Scaling from a small to a large production coffee roaster?
I received an email from a customer this morning with a good question about BTUs: “I am seeking a roaster that can do somewhere in the range of 20-25 pound batches at 12 or so minutes. we are on an 8 pound roaster now and we can get 8pounds to FC at between 8-9min… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Customer Stories, Roaster News
Roasting with Mill City: KW Coffee Collective Kicks Off In Ontario
Roasting with Mill City is an ongoing series where we highlight companies using our roasters to build their business, make a difference, and roast delicious coffee. The Canadian specialty coffee industry has been steadily growing year after year, but the barriers to entry for starting a roastery have always remained high. KWCC is Ontario’s first… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment
“Why is there a cover over the cooling tray?”
That’s a good question. We incorporate cooling tray covers because our cooling trays are very much higher performance than industry standard. They are designed to cool a full batch of coffee from second crack within 4 minutes and they are designed to accommodate 3 full batch sizes for blending roasted coffee. That means we use… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment
MCR 30kg vs Diedrich DR25 coffee roaster?
I received an email today from a customer asking how our MCR 30kg compares to Diedrich DR25. Although I have a great deal of familiarity with the Diedrich’s IR and CR series roasters, I was unfamiliar enough with the DR model that I was forced to review Diedrich’s website and study the specs. This is… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment, Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Roaster News, Start, Scale, Sustain
Coffee Roasting: What matters the most?
There is a lot of well meaning “advice” about coffee roasting online, but it’s seldom weighted in terms of the relative impact it makes on your coffee and your craft. We talk to owners about their coffee quality every day. This is a list of the 10 things I find myself talking about the most.… Read More
Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Roaster News, Start, Scale, Sustain
Survey: Workflows for Coffee Roasting, Part 1
We’re working on a new tool for RoastPATH® and could use your insight and experience. We’d really appreciate it if you could give us a few minutes and answer these questions! Size & Scale of OperationsWhat brand coffee roaster do you own/use?* Mill City Roaster Loring Probat Coffee-Tech Diedrich San Franciscan What is the model… Read More
Careers
Space Planner & Venting Specialist
An expanded position on our design team focused on helping coffee roasteries plan layouts that integrate new machinery and venting systems to ensure machinery is placed effectively both for production and machine function.
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RoastPATH : Roast Precision Reinvented.
We’ve spent thousands of hours engineering 12 various sized roasting machines uniquely built to answer the demands of modern specialty coffee production. The result is that Mill City Roasters now produces the most powerful, heaviest built, most controllable, and most uniquely instrumented commercial coffee roasters in the broadest range of sizes ever built. While better… Read More
Coffee Roastery Equipment, Roaster News, Start, Scale, Sustain
Why Coffee Shops Should Roast In-House
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
Coffee Roastery Equipment
What the heck is RoastPATH?
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
Roaster News, Roasting & Education
Roasting 101 Resource: Connecting with us on Zoom
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