Colombia Narino Buesaco roast-along

[blacklabs]

Just wanted to chime in…

@billc so very graciously mailed me some of his beans from this experiment. My recollection is that I didn’t detect any bitterness in any of the samples he sent me for a “taste along”

[blacklabs]

@bradm

I’ve been having pretty good luck with darker roasts using a steadily declining RoR all the way through FC, then going ahead and letting RoR increase to reach target drop temperature. Anyone else like this method?

@bradm many of my roasts look like that. My friends who buy my beans haven’t had a bad thing to say about the results.

[billc]

@bradm

I’ve been having pretty good luck with darker roasts using a steadily declining RoR all the way through FC, then going ahead and letting RoR increase to reach target drop temperature. Anyone else like this method?

I try for the declining ROR, flattening out at the end, but sometimes run out of heat and have to bump up the power to reach my desired Drop temperature.

[blacklabs]

@billc

sometimes run out of heat and have to bump up the power to reach my desired Drop temperature

I’ve had to do that too with 1lb batches.

[billc]

It looks like Happy mug has the Narino Buesaco back in stock. They were out for a while.

[bab]

Hey Brad-

Yeah, pretty much what I do though I do try to stretch the end of the roast to continue a steady decline. Bean characteristics (probably moisture) can get in the way of managing the B-RoR shape but I-RoR seems to do what I want…

Bruce