I am going to be in NYC (staying in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) for a week in September 2018. I would like to buy some French roasted coffee beans to take home to Denmark, where this coffee does not exist.
Please recommend a good retail roaster or outlet for this. I see many on the net, but it's...
Can someone give me a temperature and time profile for roasting coffee beans into a French Roast, or else direct me to a url that shows this?
I haven't even bought a coffee roaster yet! But I was given a huge bag of beans for Christmas.
I have no idea how to do this.
This is an ongoing (as in decades) problem for me. I love French Roast Coffee, but I have had trouble finding commercial roasters (other than Peet's) who will ship roasted beans from the US to the EU (Denmark).
Here's the problem:
1. I have looked hard in DK in person: no supply due to no...
I have been drinking French roast coffee for a long time, since the 80s when it first became prominent in the Bay Area and the PNW. Today, I live in Denmark and, finding no decent French roast coffee supplier in the EU or UK, I import the roasted beans primarily from Cafe Ibis (in Logan, Utah...
Who ships to the EU? I know Terroir does, but I have trouble finding others. I have written a bunch, but most don't answer. From experience, you often don't find this out until after you've paid, which is why I write.
plunger down?
With me, it's hit or miss. Sometimes it slides down like butter; sometimes there is a lot of resistance, which I assume is good
What matters?
How much coffee you use?
Am I filling it too close to the top?
How do you make a good seal? Is there a trick
I am dumbfounded: too many...
I have several hobbies and I can tell right now that this one is too complicated for me.
So, if I tell you what I like, can you just make some suggestions of roasted beans I might try.
On the light side, I like these Daterra beans that go into Terroir South Italian Espresso
On the Dark side...