Air Roasting

A Look at Flores Manu Lalu as Espresso

Wet process Flores makes fantastic single origin espresso. Have a look at our cupping notes.

A Guide to Air Roasters

When blowing hot air gives you solid results

Oct. 27th. Two Bay Area Coffee Demos in One Day.

Join us in Oakland or Berkeley on 10/27.

Live Stream: Intro to Home Roasting

Roasting with an electric popcorn popper is easy! Watch our online, interactive demo on 9/6 and we'll show you how.

Roasting Flores Gunung Gedha on a Popcorn Popper and Quest M3s

Coffee Roasting Demo at The Berkeley Public Library

Coffee Roasting Basics: Nerd Nite Silicon Valley 6/25

New Product Video Review: The Fresh Roast SR540

The SR500 was really good and the SR540 is even better

New Products from Flair, Fresh Roast, Bonmac and Airscape

If coffee products were movies, these would be great sequels

Intro to Home Roasting Class

Learn how to roast coffee with an electric popcorn popper

Video: Larry Cotton's Sifter Coffee Roaster

Sweet Maria's Customer Larry Cotton blows our mind again

Coffee Tasting At Sweet Maria's - Feb. 28th

Sign up and taste the difference between coffees roasted in different machines

Larry Cotton's Dog Bowl Roaster

Sweet Maria's customer, Larry Cotton's awesome heat gun/dog bowl roaster featured in Make: Magazine

FreshRoast Basics Class at Sweet Maria's

Sign up for our FreshRoast Class

Intro to Home Roasting Class

Sign up for this roasting basics class. It's going to be a lot of fun.

A few roasting articles to get you started

Did you catch our Maker Faire demo? There's more roasting info here...enter if you dare.

Sweet Maria's Home Coffee Roasting Demo at The Bay Area Maker Faire

Hot Rod Home Coffee Roasters: The Spirit of Invention

For some people who roast their own coffee, off-the-shelf home coffee roasting appliances don't cut it.

Air Popper Modifications -Adding a Thermometer

A thermometer can help you establish a more consistent roasting routine. Adding a thermometer to your air popper measures the temperature of the forced air heat flow after it has passed through the beans.

Air Popper Modifications -Timing Roasts

When I started roasting with an air popper, I found that timing the roasts was difficult.