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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 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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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 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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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 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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Airflow – Settings and Use
The North Coffee Company roasters come equipped with variable airflow. While a dial of 0-100 suggests a wide spread of airflow, we recommend the use of 3 settings: Low Medium and High Don’t get hung up on dial numbers. Instead, use a simpler approach by employing a cigarette lighter to determine settings. Let’s do that.… Read More
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Learning to Roast
Thought we would do a quick blog based on what we experience with new and novice roasters. 1. Safety. Where are your fire extinguishers? Always, be safe, have them available and in the same place, between you and the exit. 2. Give yourself time to learn. Before I roasted on the gas drum roaster in… Read More
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Roasting Beyond Basics
Rate of Rise, Roasting 102 Now that you have fully mastered Roasting 101, let’s move on to roasting with attention to rate of rise. We will use Fahrenheit throughout the discussion. Rate of rise, you say? Don’t make it more difficult than it is. Rate of rise is merely tracking and roasting with an… Read More
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Starting a Business
Adam Moore bought one of our 1K roasters and sent along some introduction thoughts. Adam has agreed to “think aloud” and discuss how he approached setting up his business, how he established a business plan, and how he went about setting up the roastery. Thanks Adam, and we love our logo smacked onto the top… Read More
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Seasoning the Drum
Lots of calls lately from folks who have never roasted or folks stepping up from homeroasting rigs. Let’s see if we can help with a blog on seasoning your roaster drum and get you roasting! Read More Read More
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BoldJava Tackles a Kilo
On Roasting New Charge Sizes Worked most of the morning developing a 300 gram sample size in the 1K North roaster. Seemed to get it down on about the 5th sample. Bamm! Thought it might make for a good blog but I wanted to nail a kilo first. Time for the big leagues. We have… Read More
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Roasting profiles and a sneak peak of the next new color…
Sorry for the teaser, but we need to do a little house keeping. Our next shipment will arrive Monday and we’ll have red and green roasters ready to ship for Christmas. Here’s a peek of the currently available colors. Read More Read More