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New on Youtube: MC-60 Roaster Rundown
We rarely have a roaster sit long enough at the warehouse, so we took the opportunity to shoot a video featuring the MC-60. Watch Lauren...
Roaster's Winter Workshop: Education for Experienced Roasters
New to our educational offerings, the Roasters’ Winter Workshop offers advanced, higher-level training to experienced roasters and returning students. Roaster training and education have always...
Cheap Chinese Steel & Other Myths
A funny thing happened on the way to our becoming the best-selling roaster manufacturer in US history. Suddenly we’re accused of building with “cheap Chinese...
Complex Cup: Tanzania Mahenje AB
Boasting a complex cup from hot to cold, the Tanzania Mahenje AB offering from Cafe Imports always has us reaching for more. Great at all...
Commercial Coffee Roasters: Used, Refurbished, & Trade-Ins.
Most of you know that, beyond the occasional swapped out demo machine, we do not normally deal in used or refurbished coffee roasters. Our machines...
Mill City Roasters Vs. Bellwether
Note to readers from Steve: This post was written in 2022. For the sake of intellectual honesty, Bellwether introduced a smaller, lower cost system in...
Approachable and Dependable: Brazil, Carmo de Minas
Just landed in the roastery is a Yellow Bourbon, Natural processed in Brazil from the Carmo de Minas region. This coffee comes from the Fazenda...
Roast Magazine's Macro Roaster of the Year is Cafe Kreyol
Congratulations are in order for our friends at Cafe Kreyol in Manassas, Virginia. The company was just recognized as Roast Magazine’s Macro Roaster of the...
Mill City Heads to Iowa for National Coffee Day Event with BLK & Bold
Here at Mill City, every day is coffee day. But for the rest of the country, October 1st is when we celebrate National Coffee Day....
A staple in our roastery: Guatemala Quetzal, Huehuetenango
From the well-recognized region of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, this coffee provides a crisp malic and citric acidity. By developing relationships with producers in Guatemala, Cafe Imports...
Roasters Brew Box Recipes: A dialogue between the barista and roaster
Our Roaster’s Brew Box is a sensory development tool that’s built to help roasters learn more about brewing and share roasting techniques with baristas and...
Mill City at the Minnesota State Fair
One of the neat things about the posh lavish digs of Mill City Roasters is our location 2 miles down the street from the annual...
Coffee-Tech Solar vs MCR-2D?
I received an email this morning asking about how the Coffee-Tech Solar compares to the MCR-2D: …“I have narrowed down our first 2G roaster choices...
A Highly Drinkable Mexico Veracruz from Producer Alejandro Martinez
New to our green offerings this month is a washed Mexico Veracruz coffee. This coffee is a single variety lot from Alejandro Martinez’s farm in...
Rescue Roaster: 2019 Probat P12/2 - SOLD!
UPDATE: This roaster has been sold. We’ve never taken a roaster in trade before, but this lightly used orphaned Probat P12/2 looked sad and lonely...
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