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I know we’ve got a few home/pro roasters here so thought I’d start a thread to see what greens you are dropping into the drum today!

I’m roasting the last of the Banko Gotiti for espresso and Blue Ayarza for brew. My two favourite coffees of the past twelve months.

Also redesigned my packaging with coloured labels to designate filter/espresso roasts.

As a bonus, I now have an extractor hood so no more freezing cold kitchen while roasting.

La Marzocco Linea Mini - Mazzer Philos

Ikawa Roaster

If I may stretch the question to what I roasted yesterday, I can report that I roasted 100g of Yemen Mocha Matari and another 100g of Brazil Santos (both from Pennine Tea & Coffee) to a medium-dark level on my 50g Home Ikawa. I then mixed them together and put them in an Airscape container to rest for a few days.

Nice idea to blend the Yemen! I’ve not tried anything too fancy on the Ikawa yet but got something pretty special on the way.

La Marzocco Linea Mini - Mazzer Philos

Ikawa Roaster

The best I’ve roasted recently has been the pennine Yirgacheffe. Lots of peachy sweetness and balance. I understand however that since 2018, 90% of Ethiopian beans go through a central exchange, which means following provenance is difficult and so consistency can be problematic. I understand Ethiopian beans have gone downhill recently too?

I’d like to branch out to some of the central and south American beans, so interested in any suggestions. Any fruity beans, or outstanding washed clean beans would be interesting!

I’ve got some Panama Gesha on the way so we’ll see how that goes. Going to be a very very expensive experiment if I don’t get a few decent cups out of it!

La Marzocco Linea Mini - Mazzer Philos

Ikawa Roaster

Blimey, where are you sourcing it from?

Roasting some natural colombian castillo, really nice tropical fruit notes

Coffee Roaster. Home: Sage Dual Boiler, Niche Zero, Ode v2 (SSP), 1zpresso ZP6 Work: Eagle One Prima EXP, mahlkonig e80s, Mazzer Philos and lots more

5 days later

I roasted a few things this weekend.

The last of the Yirgacheffe from pennine, which I think is great and very easy to roast.

Some more of the Castillo from green coffee collective (less of a fan) l.

And a very fermented Costa rican which has some interesting marmite, soy flavour.

I’m about to buy a few new bags of coffee. So far, there are two I would repeat, the Yirgacheffe and a rocko mountain (also pennine). Id appreciate a few more suggestions from the suppliers in the UK, there’s an interesting Nicaragua pineapple candy from pennine, but do others have suggestions? I’m only looking for 1 to 2 kg of each.

    Gesha roasted and bagged. Roasted a little darker than I’d expected but still fairly light. Looking forward to tasting it in a week or so.

    At ~£100 a kilo it better be good 😅

    La Marzocco Linea Mini - Mazzer Philos

    Ikawa Roaster

      HarveyMushman - Irrespectively of whether the coffee will taste of soya or grass - the picture lighting / colours / contrasts / composition etc look fantastic. 👍

        Thanks Doram, will give it a go!

        9 days later

        I roasted the Rwanda today, nice and even roast, pretty straightforward, but I slowed it too much after 1c. The chaffiest coffee I’ve roasted so far I must say.

        I also roasted a decaf Colombian, which was a very interesting process. Maillard phase was hard to identify given the beans started brown and I’ve got no idea whether I took it far enough beyond 1c as was difficult to identify. I roasted for much longer than usual (17 minutes rather than a usual 14) will have to see how it goes…

        HarveyMushman Gesha roasted and bagged. Roasted a little darker than I’d expected but still fairly light. Looking forward to tasting it in a week or so.

        I know you liked this coffee as a filter. From the picture, that looks very nice and light.

        Glad, you enjoyed the coffee. 👏