Medium roast from a local shop ranged from green to charcoal
Medium roast from a local shop ranged from green to charcoal
by AlongCameSuperAnon
19 Comments
DimsumTheCat
Let them know 100% they want to know
jnthhk
That’s one MEAN medium roast.
lurkynumber5
I can understand a single bean remaining behind and getting extra roasted. But the green one?
Are they not properly mixing during the roasting, or was this one stuck somewhere on the lid of the machine? Still a bit shoddy for a shop that requires a high quality standard to survive in this economy.
Frequent-Mud-6067
If you blend charcoal and green, you get medium. Simple logic, stay sharp.
lompekreimer
Looks pretty medium to me, on average.
happyanathema
Median Roast
kitsunekyo
that looks like either a massive defect in their processing or plain old „i dont know what i‘m doing“
MrMuf
Local not implied to be better
West-Sprinkles8210
I often hear people bad mouth larger coffee companies. There’s nothing inherently good about “local shops”
PotatoCooks
Found footage of their roasting
ghostofanimus
here’s what happened, the roaster was checking the roast progression with the tryer and these green/yellow beans fell out of the tryer. They either didn’t notice or didn’t bother to pick them out and put them back on. Happens all the time. This is not an indicator of the quality of the roast.
ParsnipMammoth1249
That’s why I don’t agree with some people’s advice of buying from your local roaster, because some of them aren’t very good or don’t buy or can’t afford to buy the beans I like. I prefer to buy online.
Krauser_Kahn
united colors of benetton roast
Silly_boy_88
But how did it taste ?
pioneeraa
Wouldn’t be going back there anytime soon
TechnicalDecision160
Holy shit that’s bad….I get my Kaleido roaster delivered today. Hope I don’t fuck up my beans!
skviki
You should support the local roasters anyway! /s
But seriously – where has this fad of “local roaster is the only way to go” come from? Probably the third wave coffee hipsters or gen z’s.🙄
Local roaster doesn’t mean quality automatically. It just means he has a *theoretical* access to high quality beans for a significantly higher price than a big roaster, and can play with roasting a bit more than the rigid bigger roasters with established lines of branded products and can offer a wider variety of roasting styles. If you are a sworn third waver you truly might get something out of it.
But the bigger roasters have access to best beans for best prices and have quite enough variety in their own lineup but especially variety between different bigger roasters’ lineups that they can offer a good variety for most of us and our tasting abilities.
And I know there’s this typical gen z fad of “localism” and the “fairtrade” bullshit (any price that qchieves a contract in a free deal without any compulsion from a repressive force is “fair”. So unless someone is using government in the producing country to force producers to sell at certain price then the price is always fair) that is so prominent at the “local roasters” offering, but that is precisely the repulsive factor for me. I hate the preachy products with passion.
I on average don’t have an objection the the small local roasteries per se. I occasionally buy there something “off” to spice it up for myself (nobody else wants to drink that stuff). But let’s not pretend they are these angelic institutions that expell pearls and diamonds from their behinds. If anything they are prone to getting lesser quality product and if they are of a better kind they simply remove the product line from offer. Some don’t do it and use the lesser product.
PhilliD3
It’s the Bean Average…
BrrBurr
My local roasters are trying, I guess, in their own way to do something of their own, entirely. They all kind of roast coffee beans but if you ask about a classic espresso, they all hem and haw about how that isn’t their thing. Local breweries also make wildly popular sour beer that tastes like “cocoa puffs and friendly clown hugs” and is legitimately awful, so I guess I’m a traditionalist.
I’ve taken to buying lavazza Rosso and gran crema and am happy for now
19 Comments
Let them know 100% they want to know
That’s one MEAN medium roast.
I can understand a single bean remaining behind and getting extra roasted.
But the green one?
Are they not properly mixing during the roasting, or was this one stuck somewhere on the lid of the machine?
Still a bit shoddy for a shop that requires a high quality standard to survive in this economy.
If you blend charcoal and green, you get medium. Simple logic, stay sharp.
Looks pretty medium to me, on average.
Median Roast
that looks like either a massive defect in their processing or plain old „i dont know what i‘m doing“
Local not implied to be better
I often hear people bad mouth larger coffee companies. There’s nothing inherently good about “local shops”
Found footage of their roasting
here’s what happened, the roaster was checking the roast progression with the tryer and these green/yellow beans fell out of the tryer. They either didn’t notice or didn’t bother to pick them out and put them back on. Happens all the time.
This is not an indicator of the quality of the roast.
That’s why I don’t agree with some people’s advice of buying from your local roaster, because some of them aren’t very good or don’t buy or can’t afford to buy the beans I like. I prefer to buy online.
united colors of benetton roast
But how did it taste ?
Wouldn’t be going back there anytime soon
Holy shit that’s bad….I get my Kaleido roaster delivered today. Hope I don’t fuck up my beans!
You should support the local roasters anyway! /s
But seriously – where has this fad of “local roaster is the only way to go” come from? Probably the third wave coffee hipsters or gen z’s.🙄
Local roaster doesn’t mean quality automatically. It just means he has a *theoretical* access to high quality beans for a significantly higher price than a big roaster, and can play with roasting a bit more than the rigid bigger roasters with established lines of branded products and can offer a wider variety of roasting styles. If you are a sworn third waver you truly might get something out of it.
But the bigger roasters have access to best beans for best prices and have quite enough variety in their own lineup but especially variety between different bigger roasters’ lineups that they can offer a good variety for most of us and our tasting abilities.
And I know there’s this typical gen z fad of “localism” and the “fairtrade” bullshit (any price that qchieves a contract in a free deal without any compulsion from a repressive force is “fair”. So unless someone is using government in the producing country to force producers to sell at certain price then the price is always fair) that is so prominent at the “local roasters” offering, but that is precisely the repulsive factor for me. I hate the preachy products with passion.
I on average don’t have an objection the the small local roasteries per se. I occasionally buy there something “off” to spice it up for myself (nobody else wants to drink that stuff). But let’s not pretend they are these angelic institutions that expell pearls and diamonds from their behinds. If anything they are prone to getting lesser quality product and if they are of a better kind they simply remove the product line from offer. Some don’t do it and use the lesser product.
It’s the Bean Average…
My local roasters are trying, I guess, in their own way to do something of their own, entirely. They all kind of roast coffee beans but if you ask about a classic espresso, they all hem and haw about how that isn’t their thing. Local breweries also make wildly popular sour beer that tastes like “cocoa puffs and friendly clown hugs” and is legitimately awful, so I guess I’m a traditionalist.
I’ve taken to buying lavazza Rosso and gran crema and am happy for now