1/3 rd Ethiopian Yerg

1/3 rd Central American 

1/3 Indonesian or PNG 

 

This is what I have been roasting lately and it’s absolutely beautiful 

I have about 50kg of beans from all over the world so will change up in summer 

 

 

 

Post roast blend?

I've been googling and that seems the preferred method. 
 

looks darker than mine. 

16 hours ago, GregWormald said:

For the beans I nominate Andy, the CEO of CoffeeSnobs and his Bean Bay.

 

I've had the Nano for a few months and agree with this.

 

I'm liking the Elephant Hills AA (1500-2000 Rest L 2.8) and Yirgacheffe special prep (1500-2000 Rest L2.7) so far.  I haven't been blending yet, though. I've just had a change in grinder, which has eliminated a lot of the roasty/bitter notes, so I'm looking to push a bit darker

6 minutes ago, Marc said:

Post roast blend?

I've been googling and that seems the preferred method. 
 

looks darker than mine. 

Its probably the lighting 

I roast my coffee as a green bean pre blend and roast all together as one roast 

 

So in my photo it’s the end result after a 6 day degas 

Rather than using photos, which rely on lighting, cameras, and computer screens, Andy had membership cards printed with grades of roasts so everyone was looking at the same reference. 

 

 

Unfortunately they are sold out. I've attached a hi-res image.

 

My usual roast is until the beans are a fairly dark brown and are just starting to get a soft sheen from the oils; but no gloss or oil showing (CS9 or 10). At this shade they are best (for me anyway) up to a fortnight old and starting to look a bit oily. I never de-gas but seal in one-way valve bags immediately out of the cooler. The outgassing CO2 keeps the O2 from staling the beans.

I must admit I stick to single origin here.  Mostly Ethiopian beans from CoffeeSnobs.

 

@sakabatou agree the Elephant Hills AA is a great bean.  So well balanced in fact that if I were to blend, that would be high up on my list.

 

Question for the Kaffelogic users - has anybody roasted the Yemen Mokha or the Columbia Picuna Honey Geisha with success?  Roast profile?

 

I've downloaded the Raost profile for the KL forums and think it's my favourite right now.

I've been using a Gene Cafe RB101 roaster that I bought on the classifieds here a couple of months ago. I did a fair bit of experimenting, and then ultimately tried roasting the same beans in few different ways. After I waited patiently for a week some blind taste tests were done of; those roasts, plus the roasted beans I usually buy, and finally, some other home roasted beans a friend sent. After assigning ratings to them by my partner and I, and averaging out scores, it turned out that the second best of the lot was achieved through a simple roasting method, compared to the others. I've since stuck with that. 

 

One tip I received, which I thought sounded smart, but which I'm yet to have the opportunity to follow through on, is to buy a bag of roasted beans of the green beans you're buying, so you have something to compare against. (I buy Colombian Volcan Galeras Supremo beans from https://beanbay.coffeesnobs.com.au, but they've been out of stock of the pre-roasted ones when I've ordered in the past).

 

I've started enjoying roasting more after the initial trials of learning more about it, and at some point will consider whether I upgrade. Maybe to a Kaffelogic for the ease, or something that handles larger quantities at a time. The Gene Cafe does around 250g per roast, but I've started making extra bags for others, so that sometimes means running four or five roasts at a time :-). 

 

 

Edited October 10, 20214 yr by mbd

Coffeetech FZ94 Pro Lab Roaster

 

One of these coming up at action for the coffee connoisseur..

 

https://www.evansclarke.com.au/detail.aspx?id=1602125

 

 

Getting great results roasting this lately:

https://www.greenbeancoffee.com.au/products/hawkesbury-2?variant=42977127727278

 

Have only roasted it to around a City+ roast so far, but will try pushing it further in the coming days.