What Coffee are you roasting this week

LeroyC

Brett H wrote:

They look superb! Let us know how they taste!!

Yep, they tasted great. They took about 5 or 6 days to really come good and were best with milk, but the Colombian wasn't bad as a short black. The Kenyan was ok on its own but was better blended with the Colombian. I tried a few ratios and ran out before I really nailed a blend, but something like 2:1 Colombian:Kenyan seemed to work well. I roasted some more last night and I think I'm really getting the hang of it. 129g of Colombian gave me 108g post roast and 125g of Kenyan gave me 102g roasted. Roast times were virtually identical to last time. Colombian-

LeroyC

Kenyan-

Koffee_Kosmo

Recently I won some green beans on Instagram :thumb: The beans are Cuba Cerrano from Green Bean Roasters So today I roasted my win in one 1 kg batch Taste test after a degas of about 5 to 7 days KK

GaryatGala

Great roast KK. Your technique still same preheat, full heat til end of roast at second crack? What times til first crack?

Koffee_Kosmo

GaryatGala wrote:

Great roast KK. Your technique still same preheat, full heat til end of roast at second crack? What times til first crack?

For larger roasts like 1kg to 1.2 kg I preheat for a min 2 cycles of the TO @ 250 deg Add beans Roast at 250 deg all the way to finish On this roast - first crack was 14 minutes - And cusp of second crack was @ 18.5 min and then cooled Photo tells the roast was roasted even and looking good KK

GaryatGala

Thanks KK. I,ll try mine without the heat guard next time. Currently first crack is 20 min for 1 kg and 25-26 min til start second C.

Koffee_Kosmo

GaryatGala wrote:

Thanks KK. I,ll try mine without the heat guard next time. Currently first crack is 20 min for 1 kg and 25-26 min til start second C.

If the beans are harder the times can be longer to first crack Some high grown and dry grown African beans will take longer to first crack and some also rush to second crack quicker due to stored heat energy KK

Lacehim

It's been a while since I roasted because I have been moving and I finally dusted the KKTO off last week. I roasted 600gm Columbia and 600gm Tiger Mountain and they both turned out great. 🙂 No fires or anything. I had no cooler because I dismantled my old tolley with built in fan, so grabbed a cardboard box and made one out of that. Worked like a charm, and it brought back old Memories! That was how KK and I made my first cooler years ago! :laugh: Both roasts were roasted to just on the first few snaps of second crack, which is a bit darker than all these hipster roasts I've been buying. It's amazing how much easier it is to control on the machine during pours when the roast is home roasted. The grind doesn't need to be as fine, the is less blonding, and the pours just look better on the nakid etc. Maybe it's just me, but I really notice the difference. I'm sure the $180 of green that I just ordered from Brendan will help me get into the swing of things anyway! 🙂

Brett_H

Good stuff Lace!! I roasted 1kg natural processed Brazilian. I'm not a huge fan of Brazilians as a single origin but these are supurb. They were sourced from DiBella of all places who had some interesting greens on hand.

Lacehim

I find different places have different types of beans so worth having a nosey about. You never know what you might find. Would be nice if we had local places here that sell green. BG's prices have increased by the look of my last order. Most beans were in the $17+/kg range, and no more bargain basement beans for blending 🙁 Remember when it was free freight over $50... those days are gone! :coffee:

Brett_H

Yes! The price of coffee as a commodity has risen hugely. I have been buying and trying beans from a range of suppliers because if you're going to spend up you may as well get to know what's out there. Mostly I've been really impressed especially with Ashton's Aussie Beans. Price and taste they are just wonderful!

bcspark

I agree Brett,Ashtons dry processed roasted to 2ndc is as good as any bean I have enjoyed .

Brett_H

Great to hear BC! I've always been reticent in recommending beans as I was burned early on on another forum when I couldn't wax lyrical about beans that folks were raving about but I thought were pretty ordinary! Actually, compared to most other offerings..... No, nothing..... Go about your business..... Beangreen prices are certainly more expensive but I have never once had beans from them that I felt were ordinary!!

iamavapollard

Just received my Arabian beans today. Not today, but i will roast tomorrow morning 🙂

Cuir_Beluga

iamavapollard wrote:

Just received my Arabian beans today. Not today, but i will roast tomorrow morning 🙂

Hi, welcome and be sure to post a piccie or two :thumb:.

askthecoffeeguy

My favourite blend at the moment is a mix of 60 per cent Peru Ceju de Salva, and 40 per cent Burindi Musema Roasted to first signs of second crack Its delicious with honeysuckle floral, and peanut brittle flavours - great as an espresso or with milk still getting used to the humidity in Queensland when it comes to my roasts, find that I have to either give the roaster a preheat or factor in a longer (than usual) initial roast time for the first roast, seems to work fine after that I also find myself roasting often at night when its cooler, and when there's no distractions or disturbances! Greetings from the Sunny Coast! Pat

LeroyC

I put 5 or so batches through the Behmor in the first week of March and have been away a couple of times since then and am only just getting back to it now. I just ran out of home roasted stuff this morning so I calculated quite well. I roasted a 300g batch of Timor FTO last night as it's easy to roast and is fairly versatile. I've still got some Colombian Excelso greens which I'll use up this week, but I bought some Brazil Paracatu last week that I roasted today. I've never roasted a Brazil before and was wary that it'd require a different approach. So I started on P3 auto and stuck with it even though it seemed to be heating up very slowly. The exhaust fan does knock the chamber temp back a bit when it kicks in so I went to P4 manual at that point to make sure it didn't stall, then just nervously watched and waited while the temp seemed to crawl upwards, desperately resisting the urge to crank it. Anyway, I think it seemed to go ok. 1C wasn't particularly loud, but that's not unusual for a Brazilian I believe. I heard a couple of snaps of 2C before I hit cool. Here's photos in natural and artificial light. I've got some Mexican and Congo beans on the way this week too so looking forward to them arriving. Will report back.

iamavapollard

Cuir Beluga wrote:

Hi, welcome and be sure to post a piccie or two :thumb:.

🙁 can't show you a pic now. I ordered it from java times.

Koffee_Kosmo

Just last week I purchased a 69kg sack of Guatemala Antigua Los Volcanes So this is the very first roast on the trusty KKTO Bean - Guatemala Antigua Los Volcanes Weight - 900 grams Depth - Cusp of second crack KK

Cuir_Beluga

Koffee Kosmo wrote:

Just last week I purchased a 69kg sack of Guatemala Antigua Los Volcanes So this is the very first roast on the trusty KKTO Bean - Guatemala Antigua Los Volcanes Weight - 900 grams Depth - Cusp of second crack KK

You'll be bouncing off the walls KK. Today I roasted some Brazil Boa Vista, Colombia Finca Veracruz and Colombia San Marcos all from Ministry Grounds :coffee2:.

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