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Starting your own coffee roastery? Buying your first green coffee beans is one of the most important — and most overwhelming — decisions you'll make. Ingo from Roast Rebels breaks down the four key factors every new roaster needs to think through before placing that first order: which coffee to buy, how much to buy, where to source it from, and how to handle quality control once it arrives. 🔥 What we cover: 🔥 How your business plan (private customers, gastronomy, offices) shapes which coffee you should buy 🔥 Why consistency often matters more than showcasing "exciting" specialty lots 🔥 The real cost of green coffee beyond the per-kilo price: logistics, warehousing, customs, currency risk 🔥 How much coffee to buy without tying up too much liquidity 🔥 Spot coffee vs. contract coffee vs. direct trade — pros, cons, and who each is for 🔥 Easier, transparent ways to source coffee (platforms like Algrano, local family partners) 🔥 The sampling and quality-control process for every incoming lot ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌱 Explore our green coffee selection (1kg / 5kg / 15kg bags): https://roastrebels.com/en/green-coffee/ 🎓 Learn more in the Roast Rebels Academy: https://academy.roastrebels.com 🌐 Shop all roasting equipment & explore Roast Rebels: https://roastrebels.com/en ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:41 Why Buying Green Coffee Beans Is So Important 1:15 Choosing the Right Coffee for Your Business Plan 10:10 Values, Traceability & Origin Stories 11:30 The Real Cost of Green Coffee (Beyond the Price Tag) 20:40 How Much Coffee Should You Buy? 26:06 Spot Coffee vs. Contract Coffee 28:17 Direct Trade: Pros, Cons & Who It's For 32:53 Easier Ways to Source Coffee (Algrano & Local Partners) 35:44 Getting Samples & Quality Control 37:39 Receiving, Testing & Storing Your Coffee 40:10 Where to Get Your Green Coffee ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY TAKEAWAYS Q: What are the four key factors when buying green coffee beans for a coffee roastery? A: According to Roast Rebels, the four factors are: (1) which coffee to buy, based on your business plan and target customers; (2) how much coffee to purchase, balancing availability against liquidity; (3) where to source it — spot, contract, or direct trade; and (4) the quality-control process for samples and incoming shipments. Q: What's the difference between spot coffee and direct trade? A: Roast Rebels explains that spot coffee is already sitting in a warehouse close to you and can be ordered quickly with full flexibility, while direct trade means building a long-term relationship directly with a producer — usually involving pre-financing and larger commitments, but also more transparency and traceability. Q: What's the standard bag size for green coffee? A: Roast Rebels notes that Central American coffees are typically packed in 69kg bags, while African, Brazilian, and Asian coffees usually come in 60kg bags (sometimes 50kg). Top specialty lots may be packed in 30kg bags or as two 15kg vacuum packs. Q: How much green coffee do you need to properly check a sample for defects? A: Roast Rebels recommends a 300g sample to thoroughly evaluate a coffee for defects, though a 50–100g sample is enough for an initial quality assessment and cupping. Q: What should you measure when a green coffee shipment arrives? A: Roast Rebels checks every incoming lot for moisture content and water activity using a DiFluid OMIX, alongside a visual defect check and a full roast-and-cup comparison against the original sample. Q: Where can home and small-batch roasters buy green coffee in Europe without committing to a full pallet? A: Roast Rebels sells green coffee in 1kg, 5kg, and 15kg bags with shipping across the EU, giving smaller roasteries and home roasters a flexible way to try coffees before scaling up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ROAST REBELS Roast Rebels is Europe's go-to platform for specialty coffee roasting. We offer a curated selection of high-quality green coffees — available in 1kg, 5kg, and 15kg bags — sourced from origins around the world, alongside small-scale roasting machines for home and professional roasters. Our service centers in Germany and Switzerland ensure local support wherever you are in Europe, with free shipping across the EU. The Roast Rebels Academy (academy.roastrebels.com) is our dedicated learning platform for coffee roasting, offering in-depth courses for home roasters and professionals — including the Aillio Bullet Masterclass (11 chapters, 30 videos, 4+ hours) and the "Start Coffee Roasting with the Kaffelogic Nano 7" course (7 chapters, 24 videos, 3.5+ hours). 🌐 Shop: https://roastrebels.com/en 🎓 Academy: https://academy.roastrebels.com #GreenCoffeeBuying #SpecialtyCoffeeSourcing #CoffeeRoasteryStartup #DirectTradeCoffee #BuyingGreenCoffeeBeans #CoffeeRoasterBusiness