For the past couple weeks, I’ve been putting down my log charts and allowing myself to roast mostly by feel. It’s not that I’m abandoning the numbers I use to profile roasts—in fact I was still paying attention to times and temperatures, I just wasn’t recording them as I usually do—it’s that I want to more deeply ingrain my feel for the roast. And to do that, I had to step away from the raw data and use what I know, what I sense, to guide the profile. SoI have been paying close attention to times, and I will return to keeping detailed logs. But for now, the distance I am imposing on myself has been refreshing and enlightening, much like backpacking in the deep woods. Just nature. Just coffee. And clear focus.
I’ll post more once I’ve collected my thoughts.
Archive for April, 2010
It’s been a super full week – taxes and other things – so it’s been difficult to make up some shortfall from Sunday’s roasting. So this morning pulled out a bit of the Aged Sumatra that I roasted a week and a half ago… this coffee has legs. Although it doesn’t have the freshness that it did a week ago, it hasn’t lost it’s depth either. Very very nice.
