my Higgy coffee and vaping on Midnight in the Forest cause I wuv it LOL Higgy roasts his own beans and adds flavors if wanted which works great for me.
I can only encourage you to do so. Besides the money saving, there’s of course the advantage of always having fresh, good tasting beans and the additional satisfaction of drinking your own label.
Just like with DIY e-liquids, there’s a bit of a learning curve but once you get a grip on what you’re doing, you’ll never go back to the commercial alternatives. And you can even earn a few bucks extra if you roast for family and friends too.
Unlike with e-liquids, if you have a good green bean to start with, it’s difficult to screw it up in a roast. It’s much easier to screw up e-liquid than a coffee roast. You also don’t need a few 100 different bottles. Only a roasting device, a pack of green beans and a jar to put your roasted beans in.
Okay @anon28032772… I like your machine lol…
you know I am a sucker for a really good cuppa coffee… I might have to start trying too…
I know it’s lots of fun… 
I wish I wish upon a star. Man, I can’t wait to jump down this rabbit hole.
If you’re getting bored and need some ideas to fill the day… why not make your own DIY Coffee Soda?
James Hoffman rocks! 
Watching his videos is therapeutic 
Yep he’s a cool guy. And if anyone here is having some financial difficulties these days, he’s sending people some free coffee (worldwide) to help out. Just watch his more recent videos…
I have my espresso… and this time I went with an old fav… maple custard.
It’s been sitting now for 3 months, just hitting the peek of goodness.
Only have a 4oz bottle… but it will last me for a while for earn morning wake ups…
Trying to catch the pink moon out this morning… 
A good Honduran, Guatemalan, or Ethiopian blend is sublime. There is also a good African Honey bean that is great! A guy in Gettysburg, PA hand roasts his beans and the smells emanating from that place is so sublime! A good Banana Custard or Pipe NET goes great with coffee as well. Also a cinnamon cream is quite delectable.
I miss roasting my own coffee. Perhaps I should purchase some green beans and dig the old roaster out of the garage!
Do you have good sellers locally for green beans?
It’s always a problem to find anything local here… plenty of good beans available but mostly in large quantities. So I’m either stuck to some sample packs from where I got a roasting course or I have to import from the Netherlands to have a bit more choice.
There are a couple of places in Copenhagen that do green beans of good quality. It’s been a few years since I last roasted, so there might be more (or even less?). I used to just buy from hasbean.co.uk though
I usually use https://www.ongebrand.nl/en when I order online. I visited them and they told me a bit about their business. They visit all the farms they do business with and only purchase from farmers that aren’t exploited. Fair trade is still a big issue for many coffee farmers 
But still, prices look very similar to that hasbean store (comparable beans at least), might even be a little bit cheaper in NL. I do like the look of Hasbeen’s website, much more informative.
For anyone in the coffee crew who likes to travel, Puerto Rico has coffee farms that give free tours, when we were there we went to cafe gran batey and the proprietors 80-something year old wife made us cafe con leche old school style, she frothed the milk in front of us in a cast iron skillet with a wooden spoon. The coffee she served us had been picked that year and roasted just over a week before we visited, it was delicious:)
I normally drink Dark Roasted Coffee that you can stand on and Starbucks Italian Roast is quite good but since this thread and some videos I watched I decided to try medium roasted beans so I could taste some of the nuances of a lighter roast and am having a great time discovering new flavors.
The lighter the roast, the more acids you will pick up in your coffee. This is often referred to as fruity notes and it enriches the coffee flavor. I personally roast my beans light to medium. It’s great for filter coffee or French press. If you’re making espresso, a dark to medium roast gives a better result than a light one.
A darker roast will be sweeter, but the darker it gets, the more bitter it becomes and you lose the nuances too.
Usually, the lighter the roast, the better the quality of your coffee. Defects in coffee beans are very pronounced in light roasts, less in medium and nearly all disappear in French or Italian roasts. In dark roasts most of the flavor molecules get carbonized together with the rest of the bean and that includes both the good flavors and the bad ones.
If you’re used to very dark roasts, I’d start like you and try taking small steps down in the roast level. Light and dark roast coffees give you a very different experience. It can be a bit of an acquired taste and not everybody loves a very light or a very dark roast.
LOL I found that out pretty quick. I tried a light roast and… NOPE, I couldn’t do it so I moved up to medium and still wasn’t impressed until I mixed the medium with just a touch of dark and I was able to enjoy it and now I have cut the mixing of coffee out. So now I have found a couple of medium roasts that my moms and I have been enjoying. Which, BTW we have been doing the coffee thing together and its nice to have something in common with her.
I started the journey of finding lighter roasts because when I do my dark roast I like lots of cream and sugar and I am cutting sugar out of my diet and coffee is the only place left where sugar is involved. I am sure some of you coffee lovers are gonna have something to say about the cream and sugar I love in my coffee. 
It’s all good. Bash away…
Taste is subjective… if you want sugar and cream, go right ahead.
Even the biggest coffee nut will add that to a bad cup by the way 
If you’re trying a good specialty coffee, you should be able to enjoy it without any addition though. Cream and sugar is just to mask a very bitter, burnt or acidic taste. Most people have grown up with “bad coffee” so it’s become the norm for many people.
When you learn about coffee and dig deeper into the rabbit hole, you’ll discover many new things.
Ya, I’m enjoying the journey. No doubt. 
hahaha 