What a home coffee roaster should look for when buying green coffee

In this video I am talking with Evan Gilman from Royal coffee about what a home coffee roaster should look for when buying green coffee. Thankfully, home coffee roasters have several quality really good supplier options for finding high quality fresh green coffee beans. One source I purchase greens from is Royal Coffee. Not only do they offer good quality specialty coffee, but they also provide some really helpful resources for home coffee roasters. In my conversation with Evan, we look at some helpful information that can lead us to the exact coffee we want to purchase from Royal and other suppliers.

Royal Coffee has helpful educational resources but on the product page of their "Crown Jewels", they offer roasting profiles, bean density, screen size, processing, moisture content, moisture activity, and information about the region and farms the coffee was grown I hope you enjoy and learn how this helpful information can allow you to zero in on the perfect coffee for you

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Video Timeline
0:00 What a home coffee roaster should look for when buying green coffee
1:30 About Royal Coffee & Evan Gilman
5:20 Why would a home coffee roaster buy coffee from Royal?
8:00 Resources when looking for green coffee
8:50 The Crown Jewel Overview
10:48 Taste Analysis
11:33 Source Analysis
12:06 Green Analysis
14:50 Roast Analysis
12:25 The Best approach to finding great coffee
23:36 Additional Resources

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[josephhancock]

Interesting but this company is beyond economic expectations for many of us home small batch roasters.

[dg]

A little late to this video, but Evan shared some great information that I find helpful. To answer some of the other comments here about the quantity of greens sold by Royal, I think it's worth noting that The Captain's Coffee out of NC has a few of the same "Crown Jewel" lots sold by Royal, but split into smaller quantities that home roasters are more likely to utilize. Just a helpful FYI!

[jamesbrightman]

They seem like a great resource but I don't see how Royal is going to attract home roasters when they sell 22 pound bags. I'd buy 3-5 pounds but 22 of one bean is not realistic unless you're selling some.

[oldgrumpus]

Thanks for this topic and the great discussion. I roast 3 lbs per batch more or less. The quantities are fine for me, and it’s awesome they give the “secret information” that although won’t necessarily transfer to our specific roasters, it will give us some assurance that we are at-least in the ball park!

[stevenreeves]

Hey Mike, I was wondering how you store your green coffee? It has been a very wet winter here in CA and general humidity is 40-60% I am worried about some of my green coffee.

[BattleAx]

My question is I just look at the sight and you have to buy a whole bag. I do not see a way to bay 1 or 2 pounds. This is not for home roasting it for large companies. Unfortunately this is not going to work for me. I can't even buy 5 LB.

[richardhenderson]

The smallest amount I've seen is 22lbs. How does that help the home roaster?

[luigicollins]

Great video Mike. My first and possibly most difficult step in selecting a coffee is trying to determine from the descriptions which one(s) will give me a flavor I will like. It’s difficult because rarely do I ever get a flavor that matches the eloquent description of the coffee. I would really like to know if others here are having that same experience as well.

Then after I take my best shot at selecting a coffee I think will taste great, my next step is to figure out how to roast that coffee, given just the data I can get from the distributor. Although searching to see how others roasted the coffee might be helpful, usually this step is resolved through trial and error.

I will definitely check out Royal’s resources. Thanks for a great video.

[mhpjii]

Good job, Mike. Paradoxically, all these green distributors such as Royal promote Ethiopian beans yet they never promote the traditional and still-prevalent Ethiopian roasting device: the skillet. This selling mindset is evident by this company's excessive 22-lb. quantities.