A tiny door in the Victorian-era roaster, allowed a sample of coffee beans to be checked continually. This scoop was just short of French roast.
If you love coffee, this story that I did for New Year’s weekend’s combined Wheeling Intelligencer and News Register is for you. I simply cannot describe how wonderful that roasting room smelled and felt on a dreary December day.
I’ve done thousands of interviews. This one is my second favorite in terms of sheer fun — falling only behind Doris Haddock (Granny D), who walked across America at age 89 and 90.
When the French roast batch was done, the coffee beans rushed down a chute into a cooling bin and the air was filled with coffee-scented smoke. The hot beans have to be raked into quick coolness to retain their peak flavor. I taste tested a couple of the still-warm beans. Amazing.
A longtime journalist, Nora Edinger also blogs and writes books. Her Christian chick lit and faith-related non-fiction are available on Amazon and on this site. She lives in Appalachia with her family and a goodish puppy named Finn.
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8 thoughts on “Roasty, toasty winter magic”
Ah! My number one aroma, coffee roasting. I love going to the roasting company to pick up our beans, the problem it is torture driving the 30 minutes home unless I get a nice cappuccino to go!
Oh how I wish I could have clicked a button as I read your article and a whiff of roasting coffee would have drifted up from my computer. The Highland Grog sounds intriguing.
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Ah! My number one aroma, coffee roasting. I love going to the roasting company to pick up our beans, the problem it is torture driving the 30 minutes home unless I get a nice cappuccino to go!
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A relatively small price to pay!
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This would be my son-in-law’s ideal vacation!!
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🙂
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I love the aroma but now i can’t drink the product…
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I like to drink a mix of caf and decaf, but I have to admit coffee does smell better than it tastes. 🙂
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Oh how I wish I could have clicked a button as I read your article and a whiff of roasting coffee would have drifted up from my computer. The Highland Grog sounds intriguing.
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🙂 Scenternet. We need it!
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