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June 7, 2024

Resting Coffee After Roasting

Why even do that? Simply put, large amounts of CO2 are created during roasting. When the coffee’s very fresh, fleeing CO2 may interfere with even ...

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March 23, 2024

Charge Temperature Part 2

Last time we talked about having a fixed charge temperature. Let’s elaborate a bit more on that. Many roasters are afraid of faults like tipping or ...

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February 20, 2024

Charge Temperature Part 1

There are a lot of misconceptions and myths about the charge temperature and many roasters link it directly with the final taste of the coffee. It’s ...

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January 15, 2024

Just Two Things to Focus on When Profiling a New Coffee!

While profiling new coffees, don't worry too much about your total roast time, assuming it's not extremely short or long for your given machinery and ...

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January 13, 2024

Too Fast? Or too Slow? Here’s a Lifehack!

A lifehack when you're to slow or to fast comparing to your reference? If something caused you being out of track, make sure you catch up / slow ...

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January 7, 2024

Don’t be Afraid to Cup Straight Away!

The need for fresh coffee to degas is reasonable and from our (totally anecdotal!) experiences, many coffees indeed taste way more transparent and ...

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January 3, 2024

Creating Blends Series

We have a lot more knowledge and tools when it comes to roasting, compared to the days before the trend for single origin coffees. Till this day ...

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January 2, 2024

How to Translate a Sample Roast Profile Into a Big Machine?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions on roasting forums. Well, it cannot be done, to be honest. It’s more and more common to utilize ...

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December 20, 2023

Why is Cup Quality Now More Important than Ever?

In a very simplified diagram of how the specialty industry works, the buyer pays the producer according to the cup quality. At the very end, quality ...

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December 18, 2023

Know Your Machine!

Roasters are often arguing about approaches. “What RoR do you use to enter the crack?”, “Do you really roast washed Guatemalans faster than 10 ...

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December 13, 2023

Bean Evaluation vs Production Cupping

Those two types of cupping are very different from each other when considered from a professional perspective. ⠀ Bean evaluation cupping should be ...

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December 7, 2023

Roast Degree (Color) Preferences

As much as many of us would like it to be, there’s no such thing as an objectively ideal roast degree for any given coffee. Just as the quality of ...

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