In October 2021, Roast Magazine announced the winners of two of the most prestigious awards in the roasting industry: Macro Roaster of the Year, and Micro Roaster of the Year for 2022. For Macro Roaster of the year, Huckleberry Roasters was named winner. And for Micro Roaster of the Year, Little Waves Coffee Roasters took […]
Dickon and Joel had no idea that in just four years of starting their business, they would be nominated for “Best All-Round Specialty Coffee Roaster” at the London Coffee Festival. From avid home brewers to owners of New Ground Coffee, it has been a long and rewarding journey for Joel and Dickon. Joel and Dickon’s […]
Shared Roasting goes way beyond a space to lease coffee roasting equipment. Owners Jeff and Howard take a holistic approach to understanding the unique goals of every client in order to provide the support necessary for coffee businesses to succeed. The duo originally met over a decade ago in Hong Kong as co-workers at an […]
Robbie Roberts began roasting coffee in 1991. He founded the coffee company that became Joe Van Gogh, Inc., in 1994 and bought his first Loring ten years later. Joe Van Gogh roasts its coffee and runs its business from Hillsborough, NC, and it operates cafes in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. Roberts lives in Chapel […]
Michael de Renouard is a certified Loring Roast Master, SCA Authorized trainer, and roasting consultant. He has been roasting with a Loring since 2011 at Solberg & Hansen in Oslo and has gained a tremendous amount of experience as a coffee industry professional since he started roasting in 2006. Michael hosts roasting workshops in Europe […]
How did you go about deciding your brand look, feel, and design? For my wife and I, our background is that we were two accountants, so that creative side really wasn’t the greatest for us. So we sat down with a local artist here just based out of Woodstock, Georgia, and told them our feelings […]
History of Coffee Roaster Temperature Control Controlling the temperature applied to coffee beans over time (the roast profile) was a manual process for many years after the introduction of commercial coffee roasting machines. Typically, a knob or lever was used to control the gas input, thereby adjusting the flame level and thus heat applied to […]