I have a coffe roaster and it says in the instructions that if you want a darker roast to the green coffee beans turn the automatic timer to a longer roast. BE CAREFULL. I did this and the smoke alarms in the house went off. Now I do it on the outside patio; at the wife's insistance. She did not like being awakened by the smoke alarms. The coffee was great. But green coffee beans stink. (smell). Any input from the coffee officinados? Bob
Well Bob, I am a Kona Coffee aficionado and a coffee farmer and I promise that our green beans do not smell bad. They smell kind of like grass. Are you doing decaf? I do think that decaf smells bad.
Good luck with your roasting! aloha, Cea smithfarms.com Farmers of 100% Kona Coffee & other Great Stuff
Yep, coffee roasting produces smoke - lots of it. Goes with the territory.
I'm working on a roaster that will roast around 10 oz per batch and when I run a batch, I get lots more smoke than from my old 3 oz roaster.
A word of warning about roasting outside - be sure the smoke more or less stays away from your house otherwise you'll get a coffee streaked house over time. The smoke carries oils that settle out on the first cool surface the smoke touches.
After my husband bought a 100# bag of green coffee back from South America and by the time I finished roasting it all, I discovered quite a lot about coffee. #1 was that the darker you roasted it, the more apparent it became that "dark-roast" is "burnt." They can't market it "Burnt Coffee," so "Dark Roast" is the ticket. I know, I know, I know -- I didn't know what I was doing; I'm not sophisticated to like that dark, oiley stuff -- ha ha!
My green coffee did not smell in its green state, but it certainly did in its burnt state. Yuk! I lived in Hawaii for about 4 years, and am still drinking Kona, even though some of the roasters that have little Kona are getting a little dark for my preference. Dark coffee makes me dizzy! I recall in California in the 70's when it was "Peet" that everyone was raving about. I didn't think it was that great, but it was a little better than Starbucks. (My husband LOVES Starbucks. - I think I've tried all of the other drinks they have, but am no fan of any of them. Very over-rated and down-right inconsistent. Dee
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