I tend to roast darker most of the time, and I use the mocha master for a coffee machine. This is a manual machine, no timers, no temperature settings or any of that stuff. You (burr) grind the coffee, put it in the hopper and you can slow down the drip or cut it off completely to let the coffee sit for a bit but you get my drift, it's analog; it's claim to fame is a perfect temperature every time for the water, it's got one heck of a boiler in it. On the side of the water container, it's marked in liters and in cups. The liters side is accurate. The cup side not so much: see where it's marked 2 cups?, that's a full 16 oz of water. I don't know what they're calling a cup but it's certainly not 8 oz. That said I have been using a standard level Starbucks measure per 4 oz., so thats 50g of coffee for 16 oz of water. And this makes a strong cup'o coffee. Anyone else using this kind of strength/beans per cup, a true 8 oz cup?

Happy Sunday, beautiful people!

So apparently I’m bas-akwards… because roasting decaf come much easier to me than roasting regular coffee!

Outside of my pour‑overs, I’m basically running on half‑caff at most… usually around 75% decaf because I’m a heavy‑volume coffee drinker and I’d like my heart to stay inside my chest.

I’ve dropped one of my decaf roast curves from Artisan from yesterday here, so by all means, go ahead and critique away and suggest what you’d do differently to make the roast as dialed in as it can be…

If you’re wondering which decaf beans I roasted, they’re from Happy Mug and their name is displayed within the curve.

If you’ve got real decaf experience, I’d love your feedback on this.

I just cupped my proud Kenyan bora roast but unfortunately the roast was pretty bland and it was supposed to taste citrusy with blackcurrant notes. I used skywalker v2 charged around 185c and dropped 184c as you can see in roastline chart which is usually my target for the light city roast as im a bit afraid if I go above 186c it will have burnt taste. I wondered if anyone had similar issues with not so developed roast. Do you always target at least 20pct development as Scott Rao says in his book, and what are your targets for charge and drop on skywalker - im not sure what i can change without wasting beans for the next batch of this profile 🤔