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    Drum Roasters vs Fluid Bed

    Posted on February 17, 2023 at 3:05 pm by / 0
    Most people don’t know that I started out my coffee roaster career building fluid bed roasters of various sizes including one that recirculated heat. Despite my best efforts all were failures and I never achieved the professional roast quality I was interested in. In hindsight, I’d estimate that exactly half of my failure was directly… Read More
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    New Roaster Color (Experiment?)

    Posted on February 10, 2023 at 10:28 am by / 0
    As a design aesthetic, our roasters have always been a bit more Bauhaus where form very closely follows function. They are classically abstract, angular, and geometric, with little ornamentation. I choose this new color scheme mostly because, after thousands of utilitarian black bodied roasters, I simply wanted to experiment with a new set of contrasting… Read More
    Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Roaster News

    The official Roasting Education Sponsor: Coffee Fest 2023

    Posted on January 24, 2023 at 2:07 pm by / 0
    Grow your knowledge, resources and network at Coffee Fest 2023! Since 1992, Coffee Fest remains the industry’s top performing trade show for the specialty coffee community. Gain new insights, discover products and immerse yourself in a thriving community of local and national industry professionals. Our team at Mill City Roasters is proud to be the official… Read More
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    NSF Commercial Coffee Roasters

    Posted on January 19, 2023 at 11:48 am by / 3 Comments
    Another MCR first:  NSF Commercial Coffee Roasters! In case you haven’t noticed, things are seldom quiet here. A couple of years ago, the State of California decided that coffee roasters installed in locations that serve retail coffee and other consumables must be NSF sanitation certified. Sadly, that wasn’t nearly as easy as you might think.… Read More
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    Roaster’s Winter Workshop: Education for Experienced Roasters

    Posted on November 29, 2022 at 4:29 pm by / 0
    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 been at the core of what we do at Mill City Roasters. We want to see our customers operating successful roasteries all across the country. That starts with the right… Read More
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    Roast Magazine’s Macro Roaster of the Year is Cafe Kreyol

    Posted on October 20, 2022 at 11:20 am by / 0
    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 Year! This award is a huge honor and a well-deserved title for Cafe Kreyol. Their work as a roaster and green coffee partner is improving the lives of coffee farmers… Read More
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    PAPUA NEW GUINEA FTO OKAPA, ROOTS CO-OP

    Posted on September 16, 2022 at 12:13 pm by / 0
    This Fair Trade Organic (FTO) Okapa offering is a coffee that stands up to all roast levels. It’s sweet and full-bodied. This green from Papua New Guinea comes to us through farmers associated with Roots #1 Co-op, a cooperative of about 1,590 smallholder producers. We enjoy carrying this green because it adds variety to our… Read More
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    Dialing In Coffee by Taste

    Posted on September 15, 2022 at 12:04 pm by / 0
    Whether you’re checking quality control of a roast, brewing a pour-over for customers, or ensuring espresso shots pull correctly, identifying if a coffee is properly dialed-in is important. Dialing in allows us to unlock our coffee’s potential and present it at its highest quality by brewing an excellent cup that highlights all attributes of the… Read More
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    A Highly Drinkable Mexico Veracruz from Producer Alejandro Martinez

    Posted on August 25, 2022 at 9:30 am by / 0
    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 Coatepec, a centrally located region in the state of Veracruz. While Alejandro Martinez grows multiple varieties across his 250-hectare farm, this selection is an isolated harvest of the varietal Anacafe… Read More
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    Brewing for Balance, Acidity, or Sweetness: Three Recipes on the AeroPress

    Posted on July 29, 2022 at 10:42 am by / 0
    In our roastery, I’m constantly exploring new brew methods and recipes.  This past week, I found three recipes for AeroPress that I thoroughly enjoyed. After brewing each one, I tasted the coffee and experimented with some small changes. I found that I was able to highlight unique attributes in one coffee by changing my brew… Read More
    Commercial Coffee Roaster News, Roaster News, Roasting & Education

    Colombia Cauca AMACA: Empowering Women Coffee Producers

    Posted on July 26, 2022 at 12:15 pm by / 0
    In our continuous effort to bridge the gap between the roaster and the specialty coffee industry, we are taking a closer look at our green coffee selection with a focus on farms, producers, varietals, and processing methods.  AMACA – El Tambo, Cauca, Castillo: We keep revisiting coffee from the Cauca department of southwestern Colombia because… Read More
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    Choosing the Right Grind Size for your Brew Method

    Posted on July 20, 2022 at 5:00 pm by / 0
    Moving forward from the principles we laid out in last week’s blog post about grind size, we know why our grind size is important. Now, we need to brew all of this delicious coffee we’re beginning to understand better. One of the most important parts of sharing a coffee is choosing how you brew it. … Read More
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    How Does Toll Roasting Work?

    Posted on July 20, 2022 at 3:46 pm by / 0
    Mill City Roasters’ Production Facility In addition to selling roasters and hosting classes at our headquarters in Minneapolis, we also operate a full-scale production roastery. In that roastery, you’ll find four production-sized roasters, packaging equipment, industrial grinders, and green coffee storage. We are able to roast, pack, and ship over 5,000 lbs of coffee each… Read More
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    The Alpine Flavor Profile: Chase & Kendra Lovins and Alyssa & Ryan Stauffer and Seedhouse Coffee

    Posted on June 29, 2022 at 9:45 am by / 0
    Alongside the Yampa River and nested in the high Rocky Mountains, Steamboat Springs, Colorado is a hard town to happen upon. “It’s not a by-place,” roaster Chase Lovins says. Visitors don’t really chance upon the Yampa Valley; they have to seek it out. And so everyone who comes to Steamboat, even the seasonal tourist, starts… Read More
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    Why does the weigh/fill machine need compressed air?

    Posted on June 27, 2022 at 2:27 pm by / 0
    I received a very good question from a prospective weigh/fill customer today about why our weigh/fill machine needs an air connection and others do not. This was my response: Strictly speaking, an air connection is not mandatory. If you have one though, you’ll fill bags about 30% faster. Roasting coffee isn’t necessarily all about speed,… Read More
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    The “Perfect” Roaster?

    Posted on June 24, 2022 at 3:44 pm by / 0
    A funny thing happened the other day on Facebook Coffee Roasters Forum. Another numbskull posted that his company was engaged in the exercise of building the “perfect” roaster and asked people to chime in about what they thought their “dream roaster” would look like. I have several problems with this entire exercise. First, if your commercial… Read More
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