2 Years As A Specialty Coffee Roaster
2 years ago I did my first roasts. 40kgs of seasoning roasts. I managed to convince a friend to "help" / make sure I didn't burn the place down and we fired up the roaster for the first time.
This was the first time I'd used a coffee roaster bigger than the little gene cafe roaster I'd been home roasting 250g batches on for the previous few years. I panicked at every step esp when I thought the coffee was way …