Coffeemicro’s Origins

It all started  with inspiration from a former employer-Sam B. He started roasting his own back in 1998 using an air popper. I did not get started until 2014, and have been practicing ‘the art of roasting” since. Air is one of the best ways to roast coffee. Hot, electrically heated air.

I have yet to use the Whirly Pop often used by aficionados, as I do not wish to. My favorite air roaster is one I haven’t used yet. I am building my own air roaster using a stainless steel commercial double boiler with slots cut in the side of the insert and it will be heated using a heat gun through a hole cut in the side of the outside pot of the double boiler. Photos will be following-hopefully.  05-04-2017- ” May the Fourth be with you!”. Since writing the above, I have experimented with the heat gun approach in the double boiler. a bit weak. I am upgrading to a burner element directly under the boiler insert, and a vacuum cleaner used as a blower- to float the beans as they are being heated.  If that fails, then I guess off to Grainger for parts for a real fluid bed roaster. More next time.:)

 

Brewster

Welcome to Coffeemicro

Thank You for reading this blog. We hope to share adventures with you along the coffee bean trail..

A bit about myself:

 

My name is W. Brewster Bird, I am a coffee aficionado with out the travel outside the lower 48  some have had on the coffee bean trail. I tend to read a lot, and to research techniques and hobbies, Have a love hate relationship with science, love people, trains and coffee…

 

I aim to eventually sell my beans to you the reader. How I am going to do this is a tough one to figure out. But you can accompany me on my journey.. Ta Ta for now 🙂

 

Coffee origins, Interest, and where to go from here

Where

One should say “Merry Christmas”  about now, the fifth week of Advent in the Traditional Church year. Wait, that is for another blog..

My interest in coffee goes further than 2014.  Coffee is an American beverage more-so than a European beverage, even though coffee was consumed for many years before America was even thought of as a nation state or corporate state.

If the articles are to be believed, coffee originated in Ethiopia  as far as a human discovery, about 2000 years ago.  So it would logically be possible for Europeans to have drunk the brew as early as 100 A.D. or C.E. as the trade routes from Africa’s center to Europe were already established and guarded by Egyptians, Persians, and the Roman Empire.

Mind you this is speculation. The Arabic history of coffee shows more likely the 10 century A.D. as to when coffee was drank first in circles larger than native Ethiopian villages. There are many histories written that include coffee as a sidebar, so I suggest looking at those histories with interest and a bit of speculation.