How to Roast: Fresh Roast SR800 (with Roastmaster Dave)

Roastmaster Dave Jackson takes you on an informative journey through the roasting process using the SR800 home roaster from Fresh Roast.

Home roasting is crucial to the coffee industry—it's what turns passions into professions. It's how Fresh Roasted Coffee got started way back in 2009!

[elizabethheyenga]

Good video, thank you. EXCEPT you kept changing the settings but not telling us what they were after you got going...

[jerryhubbard]

To those of you questioning this video, roasting coffee can be fun and also irritating. Like many things in life, practice makes perfect. Roasting coffee is NOT an exact science no matter how many profiles you have on file. Just enjoy the process and do your own thing. Most time with this machine, common since will get the job done. Get in a few roast and you get the flavor you like. This guy here did a great job showing how the Fresh Roast works. For you Jason, you make the next video and give us the professional way. For me, the first three times I roasted coffee, I made my own roasting device and got some really great coffee out of them. I tend to like dark roast coffee and timing is very critical with that roasting. Chef Jerry Irmo South Carolina.

[JasonMorford]

Thanks. I just got my SB540 for Chrsitmas. Just a few suggestions. You said you adjusted the temps and fan speeds several times, but didn't say where you moved them to and didn't always show the controls. You also didn't state what coffee you were roasting and what roast level you were aiming for. It would also be useful at the end of the video to show the profile on a profile card or whatever. For example: Bean type. Roaster used. amount used. 1 min no beans heat high fan low to charge. at 1 min fan x heat x add beans. at 3 min fan x heat x. Btw I have been buying my beans from you for years and I love your coffee. Another thing you could add, which I am doing is suggest buying a pound of your cooked beans and raw beans and trying to "match" it. Lastly, you should put a link to your website in the description section. I might also suggest with your green beans to send out profile cards with suggested roasting on both the 540 and 800 machines or just charge for them or have them as a download. This would drive business up.

[timblosser]

Great tips! I love your beans. My roasting methods are a little different, since I prefer a darker roast, but I learned a few tricks from this video. Thank you!

[markashlock]

Great info. Do you think the use of an extension tube would give better “dark roast” results? Thanks!

[mattaikay]

Thanks for sharing this - could you please add a roasting temp/speed profile for a tried and tested espresso gold roast.

[jakevan]

I am thinking the 200D burr set could run on other 64 mm grinders.

[visamelena]

Thank you, I just learning with my new machine it help me to grow my skills, , would you able to make another video with more detail about the level of Speed, Power and Temp and also time, Thank you again..

[wakeawaken]

They must make a European version, seems very good for the price
I used to roast with gene cafe, but I want a 100% air roaster

[castleje]

Can you please provide the roasting recipe? Timing, weight, etc?

[sachadufourbriere]

Nice video Thanks By curiosity what is your roaster model behind ? Electric also ?

[lung]

I bought this. However, this one has very high power requirements:( I could not use it in my home

[navymark]

Great video! What kind of drum roaster is that? How do you store your beans for 48 hours while they are off-gassing?

[InternetOblivion]

First crack starts
"I usually try to hit first crack around..."
Checks timer
"Around 7"

[greghetrick]

Hi and thanks for this video. I use a Behmor 1600. I’m thinking about possibly getting the sr800. Does it seem kind of silly to get the SR 800 because I already have the Behmor? And are there any huge differences between the two?

[coffeeenthusiast]

what's the song played in the background?

[mfole]

So you go with a lower power to start and then increase as you go? Does this speed the roasting process up? I've been typically using high power (9) and between 7-9 speed throughout the roast to increase/decrease the temperature, but I feel like my roasts have been taking a little bit over 17 minutes. Love the video though, helpful to see what others do with the SR800.

[atticustay]

Lightly roasted coffee needs more than 48 hours to rest. It can take as long as 2 weeks or more to hit their peak

[stuffedlittlehouse-nhanhon]

Your sounds just like Thomas Delauer 😁

[triciareynolds]

The background music makes it difficult to hear the narrator. Otherwise it's a helpful video for first time roasting with the SR800.