First roast on Guatemala beans - looking for light/medium
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First roast on Guatemala beans - looking for light/medium
Just getting my Kaffelogic and looking for any tips for my first roast of Guatemala beans a locally roaster gave me (don't have much more info on them). Looking to do a Light/Medium or Medium roast. I'm not a fan of Light or Dark. I see many have profiles posted, can someone point me in right direction for a tried and true profile for Guat beans. THANKS!!
Re: First roast on Guatemala beans - looking for light/medium
Hello, I have been roasting the Guatemala beans (grown in the Sierra de las Minas region and are straight Caturra beans) that I have with the altitude profile.
As the KL has Altitude profiles of 1200-1500 and 1600-2000 and the beans I have are grown in between these heights I will often do a roast at each.
I use roast level 2.2. (light/medium) and prefer the 1600-2000 rest profile
I have found as with Costa Rician beans that I can roast them similar.
Then again this depends on how you are brewing the coffee? My daily brewer is a Bialetti mini espress (mini moka pot type but with two spouts)...and don't be fooled into the video's that show this device angryly spitting and steaming with the people claiming 'aaa a loverly espresso' cos' it isn't and doing so will make the coffee bitter and horrid!
Depending on how much you have to roast you could potentially do a couple of small roasts at each Alt profile and maybe a Washed or Explorer within the same roast level to gauge what suits you better.
Goodluck.
As the KL has Altitude profiles of 1200-1500 and 1600-2000 and the beans I have are grown in between these heights I will often do a roast at each.
I use roast level 2.2. (light/medium) and prefer the 1600-2000 rest profile
I have found as with Costa Rician beans that I can roast them similar.
Then again this depends on how you are brewing the coffee? My daily brewer is a Bialetti mini espress (mini moka pot type but with two spouts)...and don't be fooled into the video's that show this device angryly spitting and steaming with the people claiming 'aaa a loverly espresso' cos' it isn't and doing so will make the coffee bitter and horrid!
Depending on how much you have to roast you could potentially do a couple of small roasts at each Alt profile and maybe a Washed or Explorer within the same roast level to gauge what suits you better.
Goodluck.