I photographed JavaVino’s roasting facility in Decatur for a Three of a Kind photo feature for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday, December 1, 2011. JavaVino is run by Heddy Kühl and Steve Franklin, a husband and wife team. Heddy’s parents own a coffee bean farm in Nicaragua and they provide a majority of the beans that the couple uses to roast their different blends of coffees. These are some of my favorite images.
Ian Lanz mixes a blend of coffee beans as he prepares to roast them at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz pours a batch of coffee beans into the roasting machine at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz pours coffee beans into the roasting machine at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz empties a batch of coffee beans out of the roasting machine and into a cooling vat at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz checks the temperature of coffee beans as they cool after being roasted at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz sweeps coffee beans out of the cooling vat and into a storage container at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Coffee beans cool after being roasted at the JavaVino roasting facility in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz pours freshly roasted coffee beans into a grinder at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Ian Lanz seals bags of whole bean coffee at the roasting facility for JavaVino in Decatur on Thursday, December 1, 2011.