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CoffeeDetective Dear Coffee, I Love You Gourmet Coffee Zone CoffeeCrew How've You Bean? I’ve been drinking coffee for a good portion of my life. I’ve worked as a barista for years and now manage the coffee shop at Piccino in the Dogpatch, but in recent months my interests have moved from making coffee to knowing how to roast it. I want to know how to turn grassy green coffee beans into well-roasted ones to grind into drip and espresso. Hell, I want to be a home roaster. Before I can even think about roasting my own beans, I need a tutorial from home roasting professionals. When I arrive at their Inner Richmond house for a night of coffee roasting, I can’t find any evidence that coffee roasting happens here. James and Ariana banter about ideal batch size and the proper heat curve for the size of bean we’re working with; both are particular to the roaster and the type of bean used. Ariana dumps the first batch into the spinning cylindrical cage and James hits a few buttons and that’s it. James and Ariana are more professional than I’m ever going to be.

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