KWCC IS A SHARED ROASTERY FOR HIRE LOCATED IN KITCHENER, ONTARIO

Set up shop without the headaches of opening your own roastery and take control of your coffee program. Built in 1916, this restored historic building has been a business centre for over a century.

ROASTING EQUIPMENT

Maddy & Milly

Two - 10kg Mill City Drum Roasters

Roast Up to 30 kg/ hr

Take control of your roasts on our two 10kg Mill City Roasters. These natural gas roaster with digital gas, drum, and fan control are perfect for roasting professionals looking for complete control and repeatability of their roast profiles. A highly responsive and intuitive drum roaster by Minnesota's Mill City Roasters with double-walled drum construction, excellent heat retention, thermal stability and even application of heat. Roast curve software is available to all our members including Artisan and Roast Path.

Dalsoyra

ROEST L100 Plus Professional Lab Sample Roaster

The L100 Plus is a premium sample roaster designed to meet the high requirements of scientific laboratories. This drum roaster is capable of roasting up to 200g at a time. The roaster is equipped with a wide range of temperature sensors, including bean temperature, for in-depth roasting evaluation and data collection.

LOGISTICS + PACKING

  • Our members can store their green coffee in our temperature controlled facility. Stable temperatures allow the coffee to roast with more consistency and maintaining the quality of the green coffee. We have enough space to store up to 200 bags of green.

  • Two large work tables with all the necessary equipment you need to walk out with a finished product. When our members book time in the space, they will have full access to the packing station.

  • Maintain the quality of your coffee with the use of our Destoner. Ensure that no foreign objects or rocks end up in your customer’s bag of coffee.

  • Our packing stations include band sealers to help make packing production efficient and easy.

  • Our digital scales read both ounces and grams with a precision of 0.01 grams to maintain consistency in your retail packaging.

  • Four accessible loading bays available in the building for easy delivery of green coffee.

EQUIPMENT

  • Water is one of the most important ingredients to making great coffee. We’ve installed Water Station with a Reverse Osmosis and de-ionization resin to reduce the TDS to near zero. Additionally, there is an assortment of food grade minerals and pipettes to recreate your favourite brewing water recipe.

  • Master your coffee brewing with top of the line grinders. We’ll have all the necessary equipment available in our coffee lab so our members can conduct their QA/QC with precision.

  • The Decent Espresso Machine allows our members to test how their coffee will perform as espresso with the ultimate control. The ability to control temperature, flow rate, pre-infusion, and so much more allows our roasters to emulate how it will taste on various different machines..

  • All the equipment you need to quality control your coffee is included in our coffee lab. You name it, we’ve got it. Cups, spoons, scales, grinders, roast colour reader, etc. all in a quiet, odor-free, clean space.

  • Test out your coffee in a batch brew using the Ottomatic brewer. Or even better, share your batch brew with other members of the collective.

  • Want to become the next Brewer’s Cup Champion or Aeropress Champion? We’ll have all the fun gear and support to help get you there!

QUALITY CONTROL EQUIPMENT

  • A coffee refractometer helps identify extraction levels and caffeine concentrations in any cup.

    You can test the extraction levels of filter coffee or espresso.

  • A green coffee moisture content reader. Moisture content can have an effect on a coffee's roast profile, freshness and more.

  • CM-100, the BEST portable coffee roast analyzer, is a high accuracy and stable meter which helps you to classify roasting degree or the delta between whole bean and ground to get better understanding of the roasting curve and roasting result for better quality control.

YOUR JOURNEY AT KWCC

How we can get you roasting in no time with keeping budget (or cost, finances) in mind.

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