Inside the Roastery at Counter Culture Coffee (behind the scenes tour)

Ever wondered what the roastery at Counter Culture Coffee looks like?
Come with me (RoasterKat) a behind-the-scenes tour to visit CCC in Durham, North Carolina. Brett takes us through the roastery from green storage and conveyance, to the 5! roasting machines, and explains the entire roasting process and workflow as we go.

Whether you're a coffee pro or just a curious consumer, this real-time walkthrough gives you a feel for what it’s like inside a working specialty coffee roastery. Counter Culture Coffee has been doing this for years, and their big warehouse operation is truly an impressive feat.

00:21 Brett introduction
00:46 Green coffee incoming and storage
01:37 Green storage silo and conveyor to load roasters
08:30 Machine 1 - refurbished Probat 240KG
10:28 Machines 2&3 - 1950's style Probats
11:47 Machine 4 - Loring 35kg
12:39 Chalkboard daily workflow
15:00 Machine 5 - Samiac 20lb (first roaster)
15:38 How do you do sample roasting?
16:17 More on Machine 1 and
17:27 Talking through workflow and roaster assignments
22:03 How many roasts per day? (daily and weekly volume)
25:17 How do you decide when to drop the coffee?
28:00 Coffee dropping from Machine 1 - refurbished Probat
30:14 How often do you do cleaning and maintenance?
30:31 Coffee dropping from Machine 2 - Probat
31:30 Roasted coffee next steps
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