Home Coffee Roasting

Learn to roast, brew and taste coffee using simple inexpensive equipment. Perfect for any home enthusiast who wants to up their ‘coffee game’ without leaving their kitchen. Discover coffee’s flavor attributes and origins most importantly – how to roast, grind and brew consistently good cups of coffee.

Purchasing commercially roasted coffee beans is so five-minutes ago! Take matters into your own hands and become your own home coffee roaster. Plus - home roasted coffee is the new cocktail!

This unique d.i.y. coffee lovers class includes:

1. How to purchase fresh 'green' beans at a fraction of the cost of roasted
2. How to roast up to small batches of beans at a time in less than 15 minutes
3. How to identify the two important 'crack' stages in bean roasting
4. 1/2 lb of green beans to roast in class
5. 1/2 lb of green beans to take home
6. A class handout with full instructions to replicate your roast at home

Resource list for purchasing fresh green beans and supplies.
The class will include a beginners intro to coffee ‘Cupping’ (the caffeinated version of wine tasting) followed by a discussion of beans and their ‘terroir’. It’s then time to roast your own batch of beans with an up-purposed Whirly-pop stovetop roaster. It’s been tested and approved by our instructor Daniel Kent of Plow Coffee.

We’ll move on to a brewing session and learn how to properly use a grinder and french press.

Class finishes with what we all came here for – drinking home roasted coffee accompanied by baked snacks prepared by the Institute’s own in-house chef Stephen Rudicel.

You’ll go home with your freshly roasted beans and a stash of green ones to practice at home.

Note: Session price includes snacks, ingredients and supplies.