Coffee Roasting

Garden Coffee utilizes a Fluid Bed Roaster to roast all our beans on a bed of hot air. All the acrid smoke associated with roasting is immediately sucked away from the beans, rather than circulating with them. The convection heating process is very quick and then the beans are cooled rapidly. Rapid cooling locks in the aromatic compounds so the resulting product is clean, crisp, fresh, and flavorful. In a fluid bed roaster, heat and airflow are forced into the chamber from below. This keeps the beans in a constant rotation, so that they’re not actually roasting on a surface; they’re being roasted from the air and the pressure moving in the chamber. As the hot air flows through the roaster, the force lifts the beans into the air, causing them to float. This effectively means the coffee beans are resting on a “bed” of heated air, which is where fluid bed roasting gets its name from.
The air roaster is accurate to one degree Fahrenheit. We target exact temperatures to highlight each bean’s unique flavor profile which can then be repeated roast after roast. It doesn’t matter if you prefer a light, medium, or dark roast, you will always get a perfect roast profile from our artisan roaster.