does anyone here roast their own coffee?

[hobowonkanobe]

at home or on the trail?
I started carrying green coffee beans and roasting them "on the fly" ( the "s are because On the fly means 12 to 24 hrs before you hope to have a cuppa)
They travel like any other kind of dried bean, and you are all but certain to have fresh coffee.
I just put em on the coals ( or on one of my antique Swede stoves when elsewhere) in a blue enamelled bowl and stir them constantly with a wooden spoon. I prefer to get them off the heat tween 1st and second "crack",an audible cracking sound that happens twice if you let it) for a nice med roast.
If you cant tell, I NEEDS my coffee, if only to ensure both eyes are pointin in the same general direction.

 

[DTCoffin]

I carry both green and preroasteded beans. The green ones I roast on the trail by using my folding skillet and placing over/on the coals, then I put them in a pillow-ticking bag and use my trail Axe to bust them up.

 

[Woods Dweller]

Where does one getgreen coffee beans?

 

[cynthialee]

http://www.greencoffees.com/

 

[Woods Dweller]

Thanks old bean. :grin: :haha:

 

[Woods Dweller]

I watched a show on TV one day about coffee. It said that the light color beans would be picked out because they give the coffee a bad taste. In the early 60's the coffee company's stop picking out the white coffee beans, giving the coffee a lower quality of coffee. The show said now you can buy a better quality that has had more of the white bean picked out, but the price is much higher. After watching this show I have always wanted to buy green beans and picking out the light color beans and roast them and compare this with the darker color beans.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I'm not sure that the dried, green beans will show "lighter". I think they pick them out when they have the husk on them, and the white outer layer tell you that they are not ripe.

LD

 

[Woods Dweller]

Dave you are right! “the white outer layer tell you that they are not ripe.” in this documentary on coffee the company's back in the 60's, cut back on the people in these country's that picked out these light color beans. Therefor allowing the unripe beans to go in with the good / ripe beans making the coffee a lower grade coffee. Today there are coffee company's that pay a fair wage to these people in south America to pick out the light color beans. This is why the cost is a little higher on some coffee that do this, The coffee bags will say fair triad on them.
The show also said that coffee beans after roasted will show a light color. And that it is imposable to get all light color beans out. I did do a test and bought 3 bags of whole coffee beans, then I picked out the light color beans. There is a difference.

Now back to the OP. I want to get some green beans to see how many light color beans are in a bag.

 

[Sperit de bois]

Try ROOSTER BROTHERS in ELLSWORTH,MAINE,they have a web site..They buy the coffee in bulk and then roast it.They have a very good selection of blends or single coffee bean.You tell them what you are looking for and they will help you.

 

[Len Graves]

I have a store near me that carries Green coffee beans. I prefer the Brazilian beans. but most any will do. I just roast them in my skillet. I can bust them up with my hawk poll, or if I am in camp I have a coffee grinder. Fresh roasted beans make the best coffee so I only roast enough for my immediate use.