Coffee roasting

Now that the weather is cool it is a perfect time to get onto the coffee roasting.
The smell of it roasting is divine, though it probably isn't for everyone.

 I love the whole process of it. The measuring, checking and double checking the times and temperatures.

 

Then finally at the exact second the roast is done releasing it into the cooling pan, and the release of the wonderful aroma of freshly roasted coffee.

 

 

In a few days we can start bagging the coffee. Then the next step is to send it on it's way to our stores in Canada.

 

 

 

In between doing our own roasting we went up into the mountains to a Karen village we know. They grow their own coffee and roast it and have a tasting station set up in the village.

This is a fairly unsophisticated setup. Their roasters don't have temperature gauges or controls and up until recently they roasted coffee over a bamboo fire under a drum that was rotated by a guy peddling a bicycle.
They don't have an espresso machine. They boil the water over a wood fire, and use a cloth filter to brew it with. The coffee never the less tastes great.

 

 

 

 

We were in a new café in ChiangMai a while back. They said that they would make me a special latte. Those of you that know me will recognise me in this portrait they did of me in foam. It was a great cup of coffee!