December 2010
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Developing a Roast Profile
When roasting coffee, how the coffee is roasted has a large effect on the final flavor of the coffee. Every lot of coffee requires its own unique roast profile to bring out the desired character of that coffee. Even when roasting the same mark of coffee from the same farm to get the same flavor from one season to the next may require changes to how that coffee is roasted. In order to achieve the...
Dec 29th
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“… there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or...”
– Nicolo Macchiavelli (The Prince)
Dec 25th
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Dec 20th
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Roaster Provided Training Considered Harmful
A popular model for coffee roasters has been to be the one stop shop for coffee retailers. Someone starting a new shop isn’t looking for a coffee roaster just to supply coffee, but also to provide equipment, training, and other assorted supplies needed by the typical coffee shop. Not all roasters do this, but most retailers seem to prefer working with one company that can provide several...
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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“… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Dec 16th
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Typica Accepted to Qt Ambassador Program
One of the things I do at work is develop a program called Typica. This is a simple program for making it easier to collect the various sorts of records that are generated as part of running a coffee roasting operation and for making it easier to use those records to reduce roasting errors and make better decisions based on roasting, cupping, and inventory records. Since there was a direct...
Dec 15th
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SCAA Digital Library →
Did you know that you no longer need to be a member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America to access the SCAA digital library? To only get results that you can download from the library, add DOWNLOAD to your search terms.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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In Reply to My thoughts on Multi-Roaster shops.
This was in reply to My thoughts on Multi-Roaster shops. Thanks for the interesting read. Before my shop started roasting in 2000, we had been purchasing coffees from multiple roasters for several years and I doubt we were the only ones doing so at the time. The model is likely much older than you suggest. The difference was that while we would provide an honest answer if someone asked which...
Dec 12th