Sunday Roast

You + Coffee Roasting = Sunday Roast

10am, Sunday 2 November at 🔗 The Coffee Roaster (Alexandria)
Limited to 10 spots
Sunday Roast Tickets: 🎟️ Link to tickets (sold out)
Sunday Roast Cupping Tickets: 🎟️ Link to tickets (limited)

The concept: A coffee roasting event where anyone can roast + a cupping event where we taste the coffees everyone roasted ☕️

Schedule

This is a simplified overview of the schedule.
Participant info pack: 🔗 Sunday Roast – Workshop Overview

Sunday 2 November – Roasting
Limited to 10 spots

10am – Introduction

Introduction to coffee roasting, coffee production and demonstration of roasting on the Chinook Piccolo air roaster.

10:30am – 12:20 am – Roasting

It takes 15-20min for the roasting process.

Attendees will select and roast their coffees two at a time; remaining group will be given a tour of the production line and space to observe.

After coffees are roasted, a demonstration will be given of how analyse your coffee’s external and internal degree of roast using a roast colour analyser.

Sunday 9 November – Cupping
Open to public, capped at 25

Time: TBA

A cupping event where everyone is invited back to taste the coffees we roasted.

It’ll be a fun opportunity to discuss, compare and maybe trade a few beans!

Note: Freshly roasted coffee needs to be rested before brewed. The length of time depends on a variety of factors but 5 days is generally adequate.

Thoughts

On Sunday 2 November I will have the strange privilege of both hosting and attending a roasting event the type of which I’ve not had the opportunity to do myself.

Coffee roasting has always been the last frontier: an area in the industry that I felt isn’t open to just anyone and isn’t the most assessable to a coffee nerd at home.

That being said, I’ve pan-fried coffee before and I’ve borrowed a sample roaster to sample roast. Both experiences were hard fails: I didn’t know what I was doing and no roaster had time to teach me. Roaster machines are expensive and sourcing greens (while possible) doesn’t have much value proposition when your first 1000 roasts are probably going to taste far worse than Blend 43.

The idea of having a roasting competition – which was how this event was first conceived – amongst people with little to no experience roasting coffee was just bonkers.

But Dan Fitzsimmons (owner of The Coffee Roaster and Chinook Air Roasters) has a tried and tested system that works.

Sunday Roast will be a first for people on many levels. But it’s healthy to venture out of your comfort zone once in a while – that’s usually where we find the best experiences!