Mill City FOTR 2016 discussion

Discuss roast levels and profiles for espresso, equipment for roasting coffee.
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#1: Post by Chert »

moderators: methinks more readers might notice our FOTR discussion if in 'Home Roasting' forum. Feel free to delete/modify/merge etc.
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Let'er rip! No moderator approval needed. I look forward to seeing what others learn and discover. I didn't jump in this year, but it sounds like it's going to be a great event.

It would help other readers if they BOLDED/CAPPED their beans by title (best to use the numbers printed on the bags to preserve the fairness of the competition), i.e. SAMPLE 1 to make it easier for folks to follow along.

I'll go ahead and pin this thread at the top of the forum for folks to easily find.
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One potential problem I foresee is that others may not want to share their thoughts for fear of helping another beat them:) I don't stand much of a chance but, I can imagine that being a concern.
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Right, through the discussion one could garner a clue that would allow a correct round 1 entry, or conversely give one away. Or engage in "psychological warfare" as my son use to say during board games.

In that light, I will bring up guessing strategy: Is it better (A) to roast/cup early and enter a best guess quickly for fear that correct entries are likely and to advance the early-bird option is key. OR (B)is it best to roast - cup - extract and roast-cup-extract a second set in order to try to be more certain, if possible.

With choice of Burundi, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, and Mexico I think similarities are significant among the origins so I would opt for choice B. If the choices were say Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, Tanzania, and Vietnam then option A would certainly be the way to go.
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day wrote:One potential problem I foresee is that others may not want to share their thoughts for fear of helping another beat them:) I don't stand much of a chance but, I can imagine that being a concern.
Each entrant can determine his/her approach. From this end, we are trying to engender a spirit of learning. Some will share, some will choose not to. That will be an individual choice.

Regardless, I would encourage full sharing once Round 1 closes. They will be rich discussions.

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#6: Post by Chert (original poster) »

So far I like Sample 2 the best: I never roasted this origin and bean before :wink:

I have chosen to roast quite small initial batches to a sample or city profile, which with the Huky makes Artisan graphing kinda weird. So the senses come in to play, a bit more than usual.
Here is a graph of that one:

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Chert wrote:moderators: methinks more readers might notice our FOTR discussion if in 'Home Roasting' forum. Feel free to delete/modify/merge etc.
OK I don't mean to sound too lame here

BUT......

1) Where is the "other" post?

2) WTF is FOTR? :roll:

3) I know who Mill City is so no need to answer that :wink:
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#8: Post by btreichel »

Focus on the roast. They supply 5 2lb samples of green, and 9 possible origins. 1st round, you identify the 5 samples. The 7 that get that correct get another bean to roast, that bean is cuped by coffee Joe, etc to determine the winner.

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#9: Post by Chert (original poster) »

CONTEST-WITHIN-A-CONTEST

a confessional aside: I am guilty of some faux pas on this forum of coffee enthusiasts. I've gone and caused cross-posting between two forums on here.

Here is a chance for me to delay cupping my samples - I am afraid it will just confuse the strong hunches my eyes and nose have given me. Maybe just turn in my entry before cupping...

So I made this image to share with those non-participants who want to see what this contest looks like. (Also see the market place thread for a cool picture of the 2 lb bags of greens ) and the contest-within-a-contest is to guess the order of samples. Sorry non-particpants, but I suppose if you guess correctly you also win the prize, see below Look at your entry beans and tell me in what order I have set my samples one-two-three-and-four-and five. No tricks: the respective green is touching the cup of the sample roast of that origin, whichever the heck it is.

If you get it right, you win a prize! I ship you a roast of the lot you prefer (FOTR, 1,2,3,4 or 5), 200 g. (PM entries to me off-line please. And by Aug 30 - 1st correct one gets the prize.)

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#10: Post by day »

Of course everyone else can identify the number by visual appearance of greens :) they do each look quite distinct and is the first task I embark on today-to distinguish by green appearance.
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