First post here in the community but been reading your useful posts over the past few months after getting my Nano. Finally contributing a profile here for you to try out which is designed for lighter filter roasts to highlight the origin character of a coffee.
Some background on me: I used to own a roastery in Canada and started with a Diedrich IR12 roaster which was then replaced by a Loring Kestrel. We roasted on a small drum style electric sample roaster for a number of years and then over the final few years of my ownership on a Ikawa.
Much of our focus was on direct relationships and I was lucky enough to travel to Costa Rica, Honduras and Brazil to source some amazing coffees. I've been living in NZ for the last year and half but not working in coffee anymore. We have a Technivorm at home but no espresso equipment so and was finding it hard to source good fresh filter roasts locally so I was really happy to find the Kaffelogic to start roasting at home again.
About the profile:
- Is optimized for a light roast at 1.2 roast level (215.6c) and min 20% DTR but could be pushed for longer DTR and higher end temp
- Overall shorter roast and pushes more heat earlier into the bean than I've seen on other profiles to get energy into the bean with gradual decline of ROR. Cupped it blind against other profiles and kept coming back to this as my favourite for allowing origin character to shine with nice balance of acidity and sweetness.
- suitable for lower mains power (some profiles shared by others would give me warnings at home)
- I have had success with beans of different origins and altitudes with this profile (Brazil and Colombia).
Profile attached below but here is a log of a roast of Melky Chavez beans I did yesterday. Not too concerned by the profile going slightly above the profile line coming into first crack:
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