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Since hunting down exceptional greens can be a challenge nowadays maybe heads up are in order.
here are a few recent listed lots I just ordered that should have exceptional potential for espresso and/or brewed.
SM Kenya Nyeri Ngunguru
SM Aida Batlle El Salvador Finca...
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Hi,
I saw that some of the members on HB are Ikawa Home owners. Are you willing to share successful profiles (espresso) for:
Guatemala-Delicia SHB, Brazil Y. Bourbon, India Parchment, Monsooned Malabar (arabica)...or any other?
Hey crew!
I have a homemade fluid bed roaster and I'm having some trouble with the PID. I typically do 400-500g batches and have had success manually roasting but I want to get the PID system to perform properly. For the first PID-controlled batch, I simply copied these...
I'd like to see opinions from those who have used really small home roasters, such as the Ikawa and Kaffelogic, vs larger home roasters, such as the Quest, Huky and Aillio. I see a lot of interest here for those smaller roasters lately.
Anyone roasting this? I got a few pounds from showroom a couple of months ago, and was using it for some rather mediocre air roasting experiments. I tried it in the Cormorant yesterday, and had a quite spectacular success. Roasted to about 25F past first crack gives a rich body...
I purchased a Kaleido Sniper M2, and I was able to roast my first two batches today. Kaleido is a newer company that hasn't been mentioned before on HB. There are currently no distributors located in the United States, so I had to purchase from China.
I took at 10 year hiatus from roasting. Randomly got the itch again got on sweet marias a few weeks ago and got pretty nostalgic when I saw the Popper!
Has anyone been using this? Need to some tips to before I get too frustrated. If I keep my DE at 4 min I tend to roast too...
Didn't expect to be making this post so soon but here we are.
I've had an Ikawa Home for a few weeks and I love it. Super impressed with the coffee I've had from it and it's a joy to use. I also don't mind roasting back to back the 500g or so I do each week. Obviously I'm not...
