Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Vanilla Coffee

Well, this all you people who like sugar and milk, or milk and sugar in your coffee, and like it flavored once in a while.

Roast your coffee to the desired level. Then pour it into a bowl or something, take vanilla extract and pour it on the beans. They are hot and so are going to soak in the extract.

This is pretty good without milk and sugar, but I think it would taste best when you add those to components.

English Vintner

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Home Roasted Coffee

Well, this is my 3rd blog, on some of the interest I have. I am trying to keep my blogs clean and organized, thats why I have them in seperate catagories.

I have been roasting coffee since Nov' 08. I got interested nearly a year before Dec 07. My Uncle was looking around for a cheap way to roast and buy coffee beans. He was really into coffee and had upgraded from his coffee maker, so I got his.

I was buying stuff on amazon over the summer, and I finally got a popcorn popper. Not the best to use for coffee, but I made it work. :)

I emailed my Uncle to ask where he bought his beans. It was from http://www.thecaptainscoffee.com/
Local to me, and so it caught my eye. I ordered from them, and got the beans Thanksgiving week, when we had cousins and uncles together. So I got to roast coffee every night for the morning, making it very fun!

I bought 12 pounds of coffee, which will probably last me a year. I don't drink it except on sunday, or when we have someone over. I found I am more of a social drinker.

I then met someone who also roasted her own coffee and was just starting making wine. Roasting coffee is a fun experince, you get the coffee as light or as dark as you like, and it really does make a difference, having fresh roasted coffee!

So if you are interested check out the website, also if you want to buy a popcorn popper because of the price you can email me about it, or do some research on it. I think their is a place called sweet maria's, that talks about it.

Have fun!