Home Coffee Roasting

Sunday, October 23, 2011, 10 am ~ noon

$95 {includes snacks, ingredients and supplies} Class takes place at the Institute headquarters on the grounds of the historic Zane Grey Estate in Altadena.

Learn to roast, brew and taste coffee using simple inexpensive equipment. Perfect for any home enthusiast who wants to up their ‘coffee game’ without leaving your kitchen. Discover coffee’s flavor attributes and origins most importantly – how to roast, grind and brew consistently good cups of coffee.

This unique d.i.y. coffee lovers class will include a beginners intro to coffee ‘Cupping’ (the caffeinated version of wine tasting) followed by a discussion of beans and their ‘terroir’. It’s then time to roast your own batch of beans with an up-purposed Whirly-pop stovetop roaster. It’s been tested and approved by our instructor and master roaster Ian Riley of LAMILL Coffee.

We’ll move on to a brewing session and learn how to properly use a grinder and french press. Class finishes with what we all came here for – drinking home roasted coffee accompanied by baked snacks prepared by the Institute’s own in-house chef Stephen Rudicel.

You’ll go home with your freshly roasted beans and a stash of green ones to with practice at home.

{About the Instructor} Since he was sixteen, Ian Riley has been unable to face direct sunlight without first having a cup of coffee. He has spent six years in the coffee industry, the first four as a barista and barista trainer, and the last two as a roaster. He currently roasts for LAMILL Coffee in Alhambra, CA.