Home Roasting
Their cup of tea: home-roasted coffee,
"Even my less-than-good batches are fresher than any [beans] I'd buy in a store," said Becker, a 30-year-old government employee who uses a gas grill to transform flavorless green coffee beans into savory dark-brown kernels that he then grinds and brews within a few days, if not hours.It doesn't require a lot of time, money, or equipment to roast coffee beans at home -- less than 10 minutes in an air popcorn popper does the trick -- but enthusiasts devote plenty of each to the craft.
[. . .] "It was like the difference between a tomato bought in the supermarket and one grown in your garden," he said.
Spend time talking with any home-roasting aficionado and it quickly becomes clear that, as with many hobbies, the pleasure comes from the process as much as it does the end product.
