RK Drums-Coffee Roastes-About RK/title> <meta name="description" content="RK Drums- Manufacturer of Quality Coffee Roasters and Roasting Products"> <meta name="keywords" content="Coffee Roaster, Coffee Roasting, Grill Roasting, BBQ Roaster, BBQ Roasting, Barbecue Roasting, Drum Roaster, Coffee Drum, Roaster Accessories, Oat Roasting, Peanut Roasting, Nut Roasting, Nut Roaster, Peanut Roaster, Nut Roaster, Roasting, Coffee, Green Coffee, Gear Motor, Coffee Roaster,Roaster Motors, Drum, Drums,Grill Roaster"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="verify-v1" content="JicQul2SUGUviNTt8NR5LlVDueG0GkrOS7T9jfGjXPg=" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="master.css"> <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="baseball 0010, default"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Shane D Lewis"> <meta NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="15 days"> <meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW"> <meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, ALL"> <meta NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="TUES, 1 JAN 2200 12:00:00 GMT"> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> <html lang="en-US"> <head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile"> <link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="favicon.ico"> </head> <body><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" class="inc" background="perf.jpg"> </td> </tr> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" class="table"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="1017"> <tr> <td width="200" class="leftside" align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> <td width="592" class="textarea" valign="top"><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table1" width="481"> <tr vAlign="top"> <td width="481"><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table2" width="600"> <tr> <td width="600"> <div align="center"> <span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 16pt"> Who is RK?</span><p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> RK stands for Ron Kyle. Ron was a fantastic machinist from Anderson, SC who had an extraordinary love for coffee, coffee roasting, and espresso particularly. The man would have talked your ear off about any subject coffee related for hours on end. He decided to combine his talents of coffee and machining to bring to us the RK Drum, which he founded in 2002. </font></b> </p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> I knew Ron as a customer and a friend. Ron sold me my first 4Lb and 6Lb RK Drum as I started my own coffee roasting experiment in collaboration with our export company Old Spanish Main, Ltda. based in Bogota, Colombia.</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> I maintained this website for Ron for years, and we collaborated on various different coffee related ideas, developing a friendship along the way. Ron passed away on August 13th, 2008. Ron taught me everything I know about coffee roasting, and so much about coffee in general. He was a great friend and fellow coffee enthusiast.</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> Shortly before his passing, Ron asked me if I would be interested in working with RK, and I am proud to continue Ron's tradition of quality and excellence. We still use Ron's machine shop to produce the same exact RK Drum, thus his requirement of quality still remains.</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> I currently run Southeastern Technical Consulting, an IT consultancy in Atlanta, GA and spend the majority of my 9 to 5 consulting for Atlanta based companies, when not roasting coffee and playing with coffee any other way I can. I welcome any of your questions at any time, to ask about roasting, coffee, or just to chat. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> I hope the changes at RK have been welcomed, and I foresee new and exciting projects coming down the line. Please don't hesitate to say hello if you are in Atlanta!</font></b></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> Regards,</font></b></p> <p align="left"><b> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> Shane Lewis</font></b></p> <p align="left"> </p> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table3" width="348"> <tr> <td align="middle" width="348" background="spacer.gif"> <b> <font face="Tahoma" size="5" color="#800000"> </font></b> <img border="0" src="rkdrum%20roaster.gif" width="405" height="28"><p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="middle" background="spacer.gif"> <font size="3" color="#800000" face="Tahoma"> <img alt="rkgrill02.jpg" hspace="0" src="rkgrill02.jpg" width="399" border="0" height="303" align="left"><br> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="middle" width="348" background="spacer.gif"><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table22"> <tr vAlign="top"> <td width="580"><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table26"> <tr vAlign="top"> <td width="580"><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" border="0" id="table27"> <tr> <td width="579"> <div> <font face="Tahoma" color="#800000" size="3"> <div> </div> </font></div> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left"> <b> <font face="Tahoma" color="#800000" size="3"> Converts your Gas Grill to a coffee roaster</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </div> <font face="Tahoma" color="#800000" size="3"> <div> </div> </font> <font face="Tahoma" color="#800000" size="3"> <div> c</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#800000"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"> the gap</font><font size="3" face="Tahoma" color="#800000"> between the 1/2 lb roasters available today, and the pro small batch roaster, costing thousands of dollars. The RK Roasting Drum is a great solution. Its a well built drum, at an affordable price.</font></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#800000" size="3">  </div></font> <div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#000000" size="4"> <b> <div> </b><p><font size="3" color="#800000" face="Tahoma"> It is easy to convert your gas grill into a coffee roaster.</font></div> </font> <div> <font face="Tahoma" size="3" color="#800000"> If you can pop popcorn, you can roast coffee. 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