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Coffee snobs move on to homemade roasts By BRAD FOSS, AP Business Writer
Tue Nov 21, 1:20 PM ET



ARLINGTON, Va. - America's most finicky coffee drinkers tout their caffeine connoisseurship in many, often contradictory, ways. They spend a bundle at Starbucks, or refuse to patronize big chains. They only drink espresso, or decline any cup of joe they didn't brew themselves.

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Then there are people like Chris Becker of Arlington, whose coffee worship involves a ritual that places him at the outer edge of the country's java culture.

Becker roasts coffee beans at home.

"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.

Home roasters congregate at Web sites such as coffeegeek.com, where they exchange techniques; they get together in person to sample, or "cup," each other's beans; and many maintain log books, where they record details such as the amount of time and heat applied to each batch they roast.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_bi_ge/business_of_life

[mindmetoo]

There is nothing pleasant about the smell of roasting green beans. It smells like burning grass.

[Satori]

[mateomiguel]

Jack: Hey, come over Sunday and I'll let you cup my beans Jeff!

Jeff: Sure thing Jack! I'd cup your beans any day of the week!

Jack: Jolly good old bean-cupping chap!

Jeff: Why don't I bring my wife? She can cup a bean, I can cup a bean.

Jack: Everybody gets a bean to cup on Sunday!

[Hollywoodaction]

There's nothing snobbish about roasting my own coffee. It's cheaper and I always have fresh coffee because I roast in small batches.

[gang ah jee]

I thought the article was going to be about roasting meat.

I have tasted disappointment.