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I have question ...
I'm Arabian , we have different taste of coffee ( Arabian coffee ) , also turkish coffee , Americano , espresso ...etc
are they the same coffee but different level of roasting ?
Good morning , after roasting much time there to wait for optimum para esta their preparation .
excuse my English , the question is, after roasting, how long does it take to prepare ?
Optimum is hard to say. I've used beans immediately out of the roaster and they are fine, though better the next day. I think peak is usually 2-3 days after roasting, and I rarely have any home roast on hand that's more than 7 days old.
I'm not too familiar with Turkish, but my understanding is it is very finely ground (finer than espresso) and unfiltered. I assume a darker roast is typical but I would imagine you could use any bean or roast style to personal preference.
Espresso is a brewing method, And so is turkish, both depend on grind size.
We've been roasting beans in our outdoor wood oven, with excellent results! (a bit of a workout, but fun - and worth it). I live in Canada, and get my green beans from greenbeanery.ca...
I have been roast'n with a Behmor, for over a year .. and sister you said a mouth full.. that second crack has got me nearly going back to the super market . I just look through the Kenneth Davids book . Hopefully it will cure some of my second crack disastrous.
I use a modified popper to roast my coffee- and it cost me around 60 bucks total... and I get REALLY good coffee roasts with the beans I get from Sweet Maria's. The cool thing about modifying the popper this way is I get to control the fan speeds, and that allows me to control the heat... the only down side it it roasts only about 100 grams at a time so to go through a whole pound takes me about an hour or slightly less. Although I have each heating coil on it's own switch, I never have to use more than one. The actual challenge is to get the roast to take more time - I got it at about 8-9 minutes now. At the beginning this was taking 4-5 minutes and it wasn't roasting enough on the inside before it got too dark on the outside. Based this mod on this tutorial here:
http://popperyii.blogspot.com/2011/01/completing-hiros-journey-poppery-ii-mod.html?showComment=1451668845163&m=1#c5555853122515979353
I have a Behmor and just finished my first year of roasting with it (almost 200lbs of coffee in the first year). It would be nice to expand this article or add to the discussion tips for advanced users, such as, roast profiles based on beans and desired roast.
A great way to bridge the gap between the air popcorn roasters and a drum roaster is what is called the Coretto method. It involves a bread machine and a heat gun. I fabricated a stand for my heat gun using wood I had hanging around and positioned the heat gun at a distance from the beans so that it would take most roasts around 7-8 minutes to first crack and if going that far it would be 11-12 minutes to second crack. Benefits of this method were that it was cheap at less than $100 using flea market equipment and I could constantly roast a full pound or more. Only reason I stopped was I moved to a city that had a flourishing coffee scene so good coffee was readily available.
I used an Air roaster for a long time, but the output is small and it tends to add to the brightness of the beans. I had good results and was saving money (~1/2 the price of roasted beans). But then I got a whirly pop popcorn maker and started roasting in that. You can roast about a pound at a time, because it roasts the beans in a smoky environment you get some of that dark smoky depth that I always found missing from the air roaster. So I took "too much time" off of my con list. 15 min or so every other week is less that a trip to the store. And the whirly-pop was ? $25 or so for basically a drum roaster.
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