Amazon.com Review: If buying coffee beans fresh each week from the corner coffee shop still isn't fresh enough, roast your own with Peugeot's Rotary Drum Home Coffee Bean Roaster. It roasts from 2 to 8 ounces of coffee beans at a time, so it's possible to roast only as much as is needed for a day or for the week. (Roasted coffee beans lose their flavor and aroma fairly quickly; they are usually at their best within seven days of roasting.)
The company also has a wide assortment of custom-blended and estate green coffee beans, including decaffeinated and organically grown, which means the it's easy to create a special blend and custom-roast it to an individual taste. The patented "Flow-Thru" ventilation keeps the machine cool to the touch throughout the roasting process, and it handles up to 15 different roast settings--just press a button and the machine roasts, cools, removes chaff, and expels the beans from the drum. Those green coffee beans stay fresh for two to three years, so buy in bulk now, and roast in mini batches all year long. All removable components are dishwasher-safe; and the machine comes with a one-year warranty. --Doree Armstrong
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - My Third Alpenrost
Let me start by saying I like the Alp and use if for most of my roasts. I still use a Fresh Roast+ for smaller batches or if I need to be extra careful with tracking a particular roast color, etc.
My first Alp stopped working after two roasts. My second Alp stopped working during the first roast. My third Alp seems to be working fine. Swissmar was very quick to send replacements (sending the new one even before they had picked up the defective machine). They paid for all postage. UPS picked up the old ones at my front door.
The biggest advantage to the Alp is the roast size. ... Read More
Rating: - A very nice machine with a few flaws
I believe that this is the only drum-style home roaster on the market. It has an elegant design, and the primary advantage is that it will roast 8 ounces at a time, which is more than two and a half times more than the available fluid-bed (hot air) machines. For my tastes, this supplies me with 9-cups for five days. The operation is simple, but the clean-up is slightly harder than for the hot-air machine.
Customer service from the Swissmar distributor has been excellent, showing a responsiveness seldom found today. To date, they have replaced the machine twice, paying all shipping charges. ... Read More
