Compared to supermarket and most small scale roasters I’ve tried, orders of magnitude better. At least I can roast everything in my preferred light-to-medium range instead of finding that those “filter roast” beans are acrid charcoal. Nowadays I can even pull off a fruity acidic citrusy bean most of the time.
However I’m lucky to know a great, if slightly expensive and sometimes inconsistent, roaster a few towns over. So better… Maybe not. Cheaper, hell yes.
Do find that you get better results roasting yourself?
Compared to supermarket and most small scale roasters I’ve tried, orders of magnitude better. At least I can roast everything in my preferred light-to-medium range instead of finding that those “filter roast” beans are acrid charcoal. Nowadays I can even pull off a fruity acidic citrusy bean most of the time.
However I’m lucky to know a great, if slightly expensive and sometimes inconsistent, roaster a few towns over. So better… Maybe not. Cheaper, hell yes.