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Community Calendar – 7/21
Bird banding demonstration, Wednesdays, July 21, 28, 7 a.m., Wells Reserve at Laudholm. See birds up close as the York County Audubon Society studies migrating and breeding birds. Free. Dozens of additional walks and activities for all ages scheduled throughout the month.

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Yes, you can roast coffee bean at home! The process of roasting green coffee beans on a small scale and for personal consumption is called home coffee bean roasting. This method has been practiced for many centuries already and is still very popular in recent times. Many also prefer home coffee bean roasting than instant coffee because it is fresh and very aromatic. this is really in contrast to the myth that it cant be done in your own house!
The use of equipment like the I-Roast 2 Coffee Roaster and the Coffee Grinder – Supremo for home coffee bean roasting is fundamental during the home roasting method in order to produce a very flavorful and aromatic product.
I-Roast 2 Coffee Roasters
The I-Roast is the finest coffee roaster to use in home coffee bean brewing. It works by using direct stream of hot air that penetrates the beans with an upward movement that could both roasts and mixes it in the process. Then, this air stream carries the chaff away from the roasted beans and moves them to the collector that surrounds the top neck of the roasting pot. During the final minutes of the roasting cycle, a special cool down mode cools both the beans and the roaster to the appropriate temperature since roasting temperature can be as hot as 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
Here are some important tips and reminders when using the I-Roast 2 Coffee Roaster:
▪ Roasting cycle is only up to 15 minutes.
▪ Roasting time and temperature should be adjusted accurately.
▪ Always check the roasting temperature during the roasting cycle.
▪ In order to control the final roasting results, either decrease or increase the roasting temperature during the roasting cycle.
▪ The device has a memory function. It can store up to 10 roaster curves and 2 pre-programmed curves even if the unit is unplugged.
▪ It has a patented well tunnel and thermoreflector design that is very well suited for evenly roasting the coffee beans.
▪ It has an LCD that can display the time, temperature, and other functional and processing information.
Coffee Grinder – Supremo
A coffee grinder is needed in home coffee bean brewing. This coffee bean grinder has a 17 position grind selector that can grind the coffee beans from fine to extremely coarse particles. It can be cleaned easily as it has the removable burr and the container with the lid can be stored in the refrigerator. Aside from that, the Coffee Grinder – Supremo also has the following features:
▪ A large ¼ pound hopper
▪ A powerful 130 watt motor
▪ It is UL listed with 110 volt
▪ It can automatically grind 1 to 12 cups of coffee beans
Home coffee bean roasting equipment are commonly available at many appliance shops and even in malls. But if you are too occupied to make the trip or just want to save time, fortunately for you the equipment for home coffee bean brewing can be ordered online at The Grape and Granary website. There you can find all the necessary things for home coffee bean roasting that are not only competent but also of good quality.

Invented by Loeff of Berlin in 1830s vacuum method of brewing coffee fell out of favour by the 1960’s but started to make a comeback in the 1990s and is growing more popular in 21st century. There many different names for these “machines” – vac pots, vacuum brewed coffee, siphon brewer, siphon vacuum coffee, syphon coffee maker etc.
If you have ever seen any of these coffee makers, your first question probably was – how on earth does this thing work?
A siphon brewer basically contains 4 parts – a bottom container, where you pour water; a top container, where you put coffee grounds; a siphon tube that connects the containers; and a filter, where the liquid and gases pass through. The device’s working principle is based on expansion and contraction of a gas (water vapor). The bottom container is heated up, which creates the water vapor that pushes the water up the tube and through the filter to the top container. Once most of the water has moved to the upper chamber the gas can escape through the siphon tube (the tube doesn’t touch the bottom of the lower chamber, there’s a little gap between them). Escaping vapor keeps the water in the upper container at the necessary temperature (it may look like it’s boiling, but it’s actually not). The process continues for 1 to 3 minutes, then you remove the heat source. That basically creates the reverse reaction, where the vapor in lower chamber cools down and contracts (some of it converts back to water), creating vacuum and therefore the suction that pulls the liquid from the upper chamber down to the bottom container. The effect is so strong that the coffee grounds are practically sucked dry in the process.
Originally the vac pots used simple wick burner to heat up the water and some still do. Nowadays there is a bit more variety of heating sources available. In principle they pretty much fall into two categories – the stovetop (gas or electric) use and self-contained heating devices like alcohol wick burners and butune burners. Of all these sources, wick burners are the slowest and butune burners the fastest. If you want to go for the latter option, look for the burners that have easily controllable flame – it’s essential for the great siphon coffee.
Siphon coffee makers come in many different sizes, most common ones being 12 ounces (3 cups), 20 ounces (5 cups) and 32 ounces (8 cups), but there are also brewers for as little as 4 ounces and as much as 48 ounces.
There are different types of siphon brewers available, most common being two globe type (the one in the picture). Here one vessel is sitting on top of another and siphon tube is in between them. Another more common type is a balance brewer, which works in the same principal, however the liquid moves side to side instead of up and down.
When vac pots fell out of favour, only handful of manufacturers kept producing them. With the recent rising popularity of these coffee makers more companies are considering in bringing them back to production. In Japan vacuum coffee is even more popular than drip coffee, which is probably also the reason why many siphon coffee makers are produced by asian companies including Tayli, Hario and Yama. A well known vac pot manufacturing company in Europe is Bodum with its coffeemaker called Santos.
Siphon coffee makers might take some trial and error to get used to it, but they are interesting and entertaining way to make coffee (and they make good coffee, I must say). Let’s face it, there are not that many coffee makers that look as if they were lifted right out of science lab.

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