About The Grind coffee house & roaster
Our Coffee Roaster, Located In Fort Myers, Florida
The Grind Coffee House and Roaster is a family owned business committed to offering exceptional fresh roasted coffee in a warm, inviting neighborhood café where we can share our passion for coffee and create experiences that enrich the lives of everyone we meet.
Roasting Basics
Roasting coffee is the foundation of our passion for coffee. By roasting our own beans we are able to offer top-quality coffee to our customers. There are many ways to roast coffee from pan roasting to home roasters to commercial roasting. The most popular ways are by convection or air and by fire in a drum roaster. We prefer a drum roaster since you can more easily control the roast and there is more consistency in the roast. Roasting by fire however requires much more attention than convection because there is more room for error.
General Information
Coffee beans come from either the Arabica or Robusta plants. Arabica being the higher quality coffee. From growth to processing to consumption of coffee, the beans come into contact with as many as seven different parties, most of which are unaffiliated. The coffee beans arrive at The Grind green and are carefully roasted on site.
The characteristics of each coffee are mainly due to the micro-climates in which the coffees are grown. When the coffees are roasted it is up to the roast-master to bring out each coffee’s best attributes. The darker the roast, the more the characteristics are hidden. As you arrive at a French Roast, the flavor comes solely from the roast opposed to the bean itself. For this reason, we only roast our coffees to a Vienna roast.
The Grind coffee house & roaster
