For the same reason I brew beer, bake bread, and shave with a straight razor, I recently started roasting coffee at home: to better understand, ritualize, and perfect the otherwise mundane things in my life. I don’t know why I have this need to iterate, document, and improve. It could be in me innately. It could have been learned from a career in software. Whatever the reason, I feel compelled to understand coffee from an artisan perspective and blog about this journey along the way. Much like homebrewing, the home coffee roasting scene is mature and there is all manner of coffee roasting equipment available across a wide range of price points. There is also a dizzying amount of information available. Because of that I’m utilizing a “crawl, walk, run” learning method to ensure I don’t have too many levers and adjustments available to me.
For the same reason I brew beer, bake bread, and shave with a straight razor, I recently started roasting coffee at home: to better understand, ritualize, and perfect the otherwise mundane things in my life. I don’t know why I have this need to iterate, document, and improve. It could be in me innately. It could have been learned from a career in software. Whatever the reason, I feel compelled to understand coffee from an artisan perspective and blog about this journey along the way. Much like homebrewing, the home coffee roasting scene is mature and there is all manner of coffee roasting equipment available across a wide range of price points. There is also a dizzying amount of information available. Because of that I’m utilizing a “crawl, walk, run” learning method to ensure I don’t have too many levers and adjustments available to me.