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oheyitsd-
I popped some details about the roaster and my experience with it here: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17429139/
To be honest, the smell isn't great. Certainly nothing like freshly ground coffee. It starts out with a bit of a grassy smell, then an almost bready type smell, before finishing with some general burnt smell as the skin of the beans come off and start to get burned. I do it outdoors these days as the burnt smell would linger for a while in the kitchen.
mmccarthy
Not great photos, but there was a bit of interest when I brought up home roasting previously. Roasted around 800g of Yirgacheffe for filter and around 400g of some Costa Rican for espresso yesterday. Probably around 90 minutes in total from getting everything out to packing it all away again. 6 x 200g roasts, not the most even roast I've done. But had my first cup this morning (left it a little later than usual to roast and ran out of roasted coffee yesterday afternoon) but the filter is tasting damn lovely.