Java-Roasters makes being a home "Roastmaster" simple with a variety of Top Quality Home Roasters and our own premium "green" beans that available through this web-site. 

Home roasting is very easy! It only takes 12 to 16 minutes and your reward is the freshest coffee around. It requires no fancy equipment and the green coffee from Java-Roasters is about two-thirds the price of our roasted coffees. Again, Java-Roasters has a wide selection of premium coffees, each carefully cupped and rated for quality and taste. 

Roasting coffee at home was a part of the daily life of most coffee drinkers through the 1930s. Europeans who could not afford to buy their coffee pre-roasted, and Americans who appreciated the taste of fresh coffee, roasted out on their porches, over their fireplaces, or on the top of their cast iron stoves. American settlers appreciated the fact that coffee in the form of raw green beans could be stored for 2 years or at least until their next trip to the general store. The beans weren't the best, the grind was terrible, and their brewing methods resulted in a cup of bad coffee. But the smell of warm, fresh-roasted beans in an old hand grinder made up for a lot of negative things. 

As international and interstate commerce grew and mass packaging of goods became possible, some small roasting companies grew exponentially larger. As the American market looked toward convenience, less and less green coffee was purchased for home use as the focus turned to time and labor saving pre-packaged goods, coffee became a brown powder, not a bean. 

Specialty Coffee Roasters have revived a profession that had been dead for 50 years, unfortunately not all of the 1980s "Specialty" coffee hype aided in the quality of today's specialty coffees. Many innovations in roasting machines and processing have really helped the quality of the coffee we enjoy today. 

Everyone in the specialty coffee industry knows that freshness counts. Everyone knows that only a coffee roaster, who sells beans that are roasted daily to order, can truly claim to offer fresh coffee. 

The entire selection of "whole bean", vacuum-packed stuff at the supermarket is the result of large centralized roasting companies attempting to cut into the sales of the true specialty coffee roasters. However, as a positive note, their coffee has an improved roast and is better packaged now due to this effort. But it is still not fresh. 

Coffee is at the peak of freshness 3 to 4 days after roasting. During this time, coffee emits large amounts of C02 this helps to keep oxygen out and the beans fresher. Make sure that any coffee you buy has a one-way "flavor lock" valve in the bag. Please note that the essential flavor oils are delicate, and fade or become tainted quickly despite all our interventions. These emulsified oils are what give coffee its wonderful flavor.