Portland loves its DIY culture, with all its craft fairs, knitting classes and home-brewing get-togethers. Portland also loves coffee, with temples of java dotting the map like tattoos on the arms of ...

It all started about nearly 15 years ago when I had a conversation with a friend who’d recently taken up the hobby of home coffee roasting. The motivation? First, quality and taste, but also to cut ...

The beans puff up to almost double their size and the roast becomes darker until a second, more volatile phase of crackling begins. At this point, the beans are done or they can be roasted further for ...

Coffee has its own Cain and Abel: siblings with opposed personalities sharing the same DNA. Aging is coffee's Abel—the positive, naturally occurring chemical and physical processes that, over time, ...

"The roasting date is the best indicator of how long the coffee has been sitting on a shelf," says Van Rassel. And the ...

The light aroma and soft popping sound of roasting coffee beans weaves throughout the rooms of a new coffee roasting shop on Magazine Street. Current Crop Roasting Shop stocks green, unroasted coffee ...

Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena. Each one is manning a hand-cranked ...

A close up image of 3 types of coffee beans, ranging from light to dark roasted mixed together - Nixx Photography/Shutterstock Two of the most popular types of coffee ...