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New on Youtube: MC-60 Roaster Rundown

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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...

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Roaster's Winter Workshop: Education for Experienced Roasters

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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...

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Cheap Chinese Steel & Other Myths

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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...

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Complex Cup: Tanzania Mahenje AB

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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...

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Commercial Coffee Roasters: Used, Refurbished, & Trade-Ins.

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​​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...

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Mill City Roasters Vs. Bellwether

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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...

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Approachable and Dependable: Brazil, Carmo de Minas

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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...

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Roast Magazine's Macro Roaster of the Year is Cafe Kreyol

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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...

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Mill City Heads to Iowa for National Coffee Day Event with BLK & Bold

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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....

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A staple in our roastery: Guatemala Quetzal, Huehuetenango

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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...

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Roasters Brew Box Recipes: A dialogue between the barista and roaster

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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...

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Mill City at the Minnesota State Fair

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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...

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Coffee-Tech Solar vs MCR-2D?

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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...

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A Highly Drinkable Mexico Veracruz from Producer Alejandro Martinez

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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...

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Rescue Roaster: 2019 Probat P12/2 - SOLD!

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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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