I just wanted to say please everyone thinking they aren't good enough, give it a go. The last bean swap I was fortunate enough to get Jeff/mycuppa and was shitting myself. Sure my beans weren't anywhere near good enough but due to Jeffs kindness and going into depth about how I could improve, I think I've made a big leap forward in my roasting, well I hope, I've only just started blending so I hope whoever I get goes gently on me LOL My big lesson was that I was so afraid of ending up with GJ beans re: black and oily that I wasn't roasting long enough and my beans were under roasted. I often wondered where this chocolate taste was that everyone was raving about in certain beans!!! Well I found it in spades once I realised what I was doing wrong 😉 So please please give it a go and have fun learning after all it's what we're all about, learning and having fun doing it to get the best we can out of our roasting.
