What Do We Really Know About Roasting Coffee?
A 40-year-old specialty coffee industry behaves like everything about coffee roasting is already settled. But what if coffee beans don't really care about a pretty line on a monitor—we do? Let's play a game of Specialty Coffee Roasting Bingo and look at the rigid, unverified dogmas we’ve blindly accepted.
Planning for Roasting: Sample Roasting vs. Production Coffee Roasting
Ever feel like you’re emerging from a black hole of time and space after a roasting session? Hours passed, you’re exhausted, and you don’t remember a single batch. That is what happens when you roast without a plan. Sample roasting and production roasting aren't just different tasks—they are two entirely different skills that require two completely different roadmaps.