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Its hard to roast. Progresses very fast! Hard to tell color changes in roast because of decaf process. 1C muted. do as for a regular coffee but dial back the temps and maybe do that trick where you kill power after charge until after the TP. That's all I have and would add I hat roasting...

Agreed! Grab a bottle of good sour beer and add the dregs. Did you use the Roselare (?) yeast blend for primary?

So I tried cutting power after charging and adding heat only after the TP (pretty close to 1 minute mark). Seemed to help to elongate dry phase and gave me a bit better control going into 1C. I was unfamiliar with the roast momentum however, and normally I'm trying to slow it down a bit, and...

Sounds like I'm not too far off track. Most of my roasts are under 11 minutes, some under 10. I think my yellowiing is always under 4 min, which I think is hard for me to achieve 4 minutes or more. I will try cutting power when I charge and add power after turning point or 1 minute mark...

I prefer Artisan but have so far not used it with the Bullet. I will check on Roast World what my SN is. I use 1lb roasts typically losing 13% ish in mass and typically dropping at the end of 1C or shortly thereafter. I typically preheat using the IBST upgrade to 240º C and let it sit for an...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try putting them to use today. What charge bean mass do you typically roast? I try to stick to 454g or 1lb unless I have some generous bags from SM's and its the last of the bag, they often contain up to 50g more than what I purchased. I think my Bullet is one...

I have the IBST upgrade. I will try some roasts this weekend. Last roast is a dumper... tastes terrible. I had a conversion table I wrote on a piece of paper taped up near where I roast that suggests the charge (bean mass) to charge temp for the original roaster hardware and what it similar...

I want to say 240C is my charge temp. I ordered three new greens today: Burundi Dry Process Kibingo Ethiopia Dry Process Genji Challa Ethiopia Sidama Damo sound like solid coffee to me. Anyone else get any or have suggestion?

We need to have some sharing of roasting tips in here from time to time. I feel like many of my roasts suffer from too fast drying/yellowing (always less than 4 min for me) and too fast progression, most roasts last less than 10 minutes (1pound charge) with weight loss less than the "experts"...

worst I've ever seen was the tiny Kona coffee I got a from Maui in a free sample. So small that the beans would never roast in my roaster, let alone trying to hear the 1C. I think they were all less than 1cm in size. I am not sure what I did with them. TD Maui Mokka beans

So what if any are the real benefits of brewing with Beersmith 3 instead of Beersmith 2? I've paid for Beersmith 2 and BS3 is a subscription based product. I use BS2 plus Bru N Water premium spreadsheet for brewing and pH and strike temps are usually spot on. I don't use the cloud, I don't use...

Did a Bourbon soaked spiral in a Tripel spiked with Brett. Came out great. FYI, if you do it in the keg, beware that the spiral might not float in your beer, which happened to me, thinking I could take it out after so many days..

Good input. I might print this one out and file in the wish list folder. I have the Vario grinder now, but the ceramic burrs I swapped for steel at @jammin recommendation for drip coffee. I noticed a chip in the ceramic burrs when I was swapping them too btw. Never had an issue with it for...

You’ll have to let me know about that monolith. I’ve never really experimented with espresso before. Had a cheap unit I was given, saeco? I gave to workplace friends when I moved on. Be interested in how a nice eyc light roast berry bomb turns out as espresso. So monolith 3200 Espresso...

Just so you know I’m trying to leverage this with SWMBO to justify a Barrett MRAD, since I don’t drink espresso and it would be an expensive habit to get into I should stick with my existing hobbies and not expand into any more expensive ones.

$3250 well spent

Had some 2018 Konga I put into freezer with vac seal mylar bag and oxygen absorber. You know what? It kind of revived it a bit. The second crack is less muted than before I froze it some time ago, in fact not muted at all. Nice bit of blueberry going on too.

Well, Since I didn't get any specific recommendations here is my plan: Flame Out 1oz, whirlpooled about ten minutes before I got the CFC setup and going and took a few more minutes to drop to 180. Planned 2.5 whirlpool oz additions I think I'll do .5 oz at 180,170, 160,150,140 ten minutes...

I've used them before and they make for a nice Pale Ale, but I don't recall my steeping schedule. Kinda been on a brewing hiatus since 2014/early 15. I think there has been much progress in hop research and usage, so without doing any of the heavy lifting was hoping to get some crib notes on...

Brewing a Pale ale with Falconer's Flight Blend and want to do a hop stand/whirlpool. What's a good temp & time to hold the whirlpool at for these hops to get maximum impact? Thinking somewhere between 185-160, but not sure. TD