The Mill City Blog
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Roasting with Mill City: Palace Coffee Company
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...
Mill City earns CSA Design Certification - an industry first.
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...
Introducing MATTE finish for the MCR Series coffee roasters, new for 2020
We excited to launch a new finish option in our upcoming MCR Series roasters – Matte! This new matte finish offers a more refined look...
Mill City + Glitter Cat Bootcamp
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...
Big Red Roast Rig is hitting the road again
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...
Coffee Fest Classes: What's Up With The Donations?
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...
Dogwood in Sprudge
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...
Mill City Roasters at SCA Expo 2018
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...
Minneroasta 2017 - 1st Annual Coffee Roasting Event
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...
How do our large roasters compare?
Ridiculous. Our machines are constructed as solid plate steel weldments. They are heavier and quieter than almost everything on the market, and just happen...
Roasters Guild Retreat 2017
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 Legendary Coffee Tour, Spring 2017
Mill City Roasters is proud to sponsor Cafe Imports’ Legendary Coffee Tour, alongside Sprudge and La Marzocco. The tour will be making stops in Toronto,...
Deaf Can! Coffee Visits Mill City Roasters
As Mill City Roasters continues it’s mission to provide quality coffee roasting equipment to emerging and established coffee roasters, the Mill City team is constantly...
Double Walled Drums and Other Improvements
We’ve recently made several noteworthy improvements to our roasters at the factory: Honeywell gas valves, increased burner sizes on the 3 kg – 30 kg...
Common Issues for New Roasters
We field calls on a daily basis. Let’s take a look at the most common errors as you begin to learn that new roaster. Not...
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