{"title":"Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are not that many books about home roasting which is either surprising or not so surprising, depending on how you look at it.  We carry a general interest book on home coffee roasting, and then subject specific and technical books. From Scott Rao's \u003cem\u003eProfessional Barista's Handbook \u003c\/em\u003eto Witgen's \u003cem\u003eCoffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production\u003c\/em\u003e, many of these titles are probably over the top for the home roasting enthusiast, but they are of interest to Tom and so we stock them.  We have also produced a small roaster log book that has basic home roasting information, and blank pages to log your roasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-coffee-roaster-s-companion-by-scott-rao","title":"The Coffee Roaster's Companion by Scott Rao","description":"\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85D451\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85D464\"\u003eThe photos are great and so are the examples of curves and charts. This is a basic consolidation of roasting info. It may be a bit elementary for professional roasters so expect to breeze through this book if you have been roasting on large machines for a while. We still think it's an excellent book and are glad that Scott Rao took the time to create it.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85D451\"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85D464\"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Sweet Maria's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46204986327190,"sku":"BOOK-COMP-0090","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1518\/0182\/files\/coffee-roasters-companion-book-scott-rao-1.jpg?v=1769166767"},{"product_id":"home-coffee-roasting-romance-and-revival-by-kenneth-davids","title":"Home Coffee Roasting: Romance and Revival by Kenneth Davids","description":"\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85DD01\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85DD17\"\u003eThe book for home roasting --- for newbies and oldbies alike. A must-have.  This is the latest edition, and the only book devoted entirely to home roasting. It happens to be an excellent resource and reference for our craft. A book that is both technically descriptive and fun to read, you might notice references to it throughout our web pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nHome Coffee Roasting: Romance and Revival covers coffee origins and brewing too. If you roast coffee, or are just thinking about it, you will find this book useful. In fact, it works as both an entertaining start-to-finish read, and as a continued reference source! Even if you have no intentions of ever roasting, this title will help you understand quality coffee, the roast process, the origin countries, tasting coffee ...and you will be able to make better coffee purchases because of it! 216 pgs.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85DD01\"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85DD17\"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Sweet Maria's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46204986425494,"sku":"BOOK-RMCE-0236","price":15.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1518\/0182\/files\/home-coffee-roasting-romance-revival-davids-book-1.jpg?v=1769166769"},{"product_id":"the-professional-barista-s-handbook-by-scott-rao","title":"The Professional Barista's Handbook by Scott Rao","description":"\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85EF12\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E85EF26\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Professional Barista's Handbook is a very efficient training manual for espresso, and features some great information on brewing too. I was impressed with how concise it is, and how useful it will be for the home enthusiast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Best of all, it cuts to the chase and shows the core methods for achieving great extraction without making you read too much theory. It also avoids being too specific in showing just one technique. In other words, read this book and over time you surely will develop your own variations. That's the way it should be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Scott Rao has 14 years practical experience so the Handbook combines essential theory with a lot of behind-the-bar insight. And it's not full of a bunch of froo-froo beverage recipies. It's from a small press, essentially self-published, 100 pages on nice thick stock with some excellent illustrative photos and graphs, and a bit spendy at $45. But you could buy a 250 page book with half of the essential information that you would have to trudge through. If you want a great book that is more expansive in focus and technical, get the Illy Espresso Coffee book above. But here is all the essential information in a book you will truly use!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85EF12\"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E85EF26\"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Sweet Maria's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46204986884246,"sku":"BOOK-SRAO-0231","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1518\/0182\/files\/professional-baristas-handbook-scott-rao-book-1.jpg?v=1778228634"},{"product_id":"coffee-roasting-best-practices-scott-rao","title":"Coffee Roasting: Best Practices by Scott Rao","description":"\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-video-fallback-src=\"\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E99C9DA\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-pb-style=\"60C978E99C9FB\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoffee Roasting: Best Practices\u003c\/em\u003e by Scott Rao is an advanced guide to coffee roasting aimed at a professional audience. This is the perfect resource for folks transitioning from home roasting to commercial roasting. If you're an experienced roaster, \u003cem\u003eBest Practices \u003c\/em\u003eis a handy reference guide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E99C9DA\"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style=\"60C978E99C9FB\"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Sweet Maria's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46205046816918,"sku":"BOOK-BEST-0355","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1518\/0182\/files\/coffee-roasting-best-practices-rao-book-1.jpg?v=1769168804"},{"product_id":"21st-century-coffee-a-guide-by-kenneth-davids","title":"21st Century Coffee: A Guide by Kenneth Davids","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=QOMTE0D]{justify-content:flex-start;display:flex;flex-direction:column;background-position:left top;background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-attachment:scroll}\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-background-type=\"image\" data-video-loop=\"true\" data-video-play-only-visible=\"true\" data-video-lazy-load=\"true\" data-video-fallback-src=\"\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"QOMTE0D\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKenneth Davids has been an important coffee writer for decades, and can speak with authority and perspective on the Specialty coffee movement, from it's start to it's current state in the world. Bringing that oversight to all the particulars of coffee, to describing it's sensory aspects, to roasting and brewing, to trends in processing and preparation ... this is why his perspective offers depth of understanding, context and meaning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"B2SW43O\"\u003eThis latest book incorporates and updates his work for the last 35 years in writing about coffee. It works as a cover-to-cover read, and as a reference manual you might find yourself going to countless times. While there are a lot of books that attempt to \"do it all\" on the subject of coffee, to speak about it in all manifestations from tree to cup, I feel like Ken Davids is someone who has the skill and experience to do this in stride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a full 285 pages that takes it all on: Coffee History (Chapter 2), Coffee Flavor Attributes (Chapters 5-6), a unique approach to the \"Why\" of coffee flavor (Chapters 7-10), an extensive Atlas of Coffee Origins (Chapters 11-14), Coffee and the Environment (Chapter 15), Coffee Roasting, including Home Roasting (Chapter 16), Grinding (Chapter 17), Brewing (Chapter 18), Health Aspects (Chapter 19), Espresso Afterward (Chapter 20). See what I mean? Extensive, Exhaustive! Beyond this the illustrative photographs, maps, tables and charts are something you might find yourself referring to countless times. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover Book, 285 Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8.5\" Wide, 11\" Tall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sweet Maria's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46205080895638,"sku":"BOOK-CENT-0436","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/1518\/0182\/files\/kenneth-davids-21st-century-coffee-a-guide-book.jpg?v=1769170015"},{"product_id":"engineering-better-espresso-data-driven-coffee","title":"Engineering Better Espresso: Data Driven Coffee","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e#html-body [data-pb-style=UFNNIF2]{justify-content:flex-start;display:flex;flex-direction:column;background-position:left top;background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-attachment:scroll}\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"row\" data-appearance=\"contained\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-enable-parallax=\"0\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.5\" data-background-images=\"{}\" data-background-type=\"image\" data-video-loop=\"true\" data-video-play-only-visible=\"true\" data-video-lazy-load=\"true\" data-video-fallback-src=\"\" data-element=\"inner\" data-pb-style=\"UFNNIF2\"\u003e\u003cdiv data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor Robert McKeon Aloe pulled his years of experience and nearly 200 coffee articles into this thorough book. His personal and friendly approach to microns, ratios and extraction yields make it a comfortable read when it comes down to such an unforgiving method of making coffee. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngineering Better Espresso - Data Driven Coffee's 26 chapters are divided into four main topics: Shot Preparation, Pre-Shot,  Pulling the Shot and Post-Shot. His story begins with experiencing the drastic difference between delicious espresso in Paris and the \"nasty\" bitterness of a few Starbucks shots. He eventually revived his passion for espresso and intersected it with his other hobby: data. Somewhere in between, he became a home coffee roaster and there's even a photo of his Hottop in chapter 1. 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