Coffee Education

Allowing Coffee to “Rest”

Larry Duran

While it may sound strange, if you want to consistently get the best flavors and aromas from your freshly roasted coffee, you need to allow it to “rest”.  Simply put,...

Allowing Coffee to “Rest”

Larry Duran

While it may sound strange, if you want to consistently get the best flavors and aromas from your freshly roasted coffee, you need to allow it to “rest”.  Simply put,...

How to Scale Your Batch Size Up or Down: The Co...

Larry Duran

If you want to scale up or scale down the amount of ground coffee you are brewing, you have to be flexible and willing to adjust the grind size depending...

How to Scale Your Batch Size Up or Down: The Co...

Larry Duran

If you want to scale up or scale down the amount of ground coffee you are brewing, you have to be flexible and willing to adjust the grind size depending...

Manual versus tech-based coffee roasting

Larry Duran

One of the questions that often comes up in home coffee roasting forums and even in the fluid bed Facebook group where I am one of the admins is the...

Manual versus tech-based coffee roasting

Larry Duran

One of the questions that often comes up in home coffee roasting forums and even in the fluid bed Facebook group where I am one of the admins is the...

Kaffelogic Nano 7: Best small batch coffee roas...

Larry Duran

KEY FINDINGS Capable of precisely roasting 50-200 grams of coffee Invaluable tool for roasting green coffee samples, roasting for competitions, or profile development for commercial fluid bed roaster PID software...

Kaffelogic Nano 7: Best small batch coffee roas...

Larry Duran

KEY FINDINGS Capable of precisely roasting 50-200 grams of coffee Invaluable tool for roasting green coffee samples, roasting for competitions, or profile development for commercial fluid bed roaster PID software...

Water: The often unsuspect culptrit

Larry Duran

If you buy a bag of roasted coffee based on how it tasted at a coffee shop, coffee roastery, Farmer’s Market, or just based on the flavor descriptions on the...

Water: The often unsuspect culptrit

Larry Duran

If you buy a bag of roasted coffee based on how it tasted at a coffee shop, coffee roastery, Farmer’s Market, or just based on the flavor descriptions on the...

Outsmarting the Clever Dripper

Larry Duran

Outsmarting the Clever Dripper Until recently, the Clever Dripper was one brewer I have owned for years but seldom used as I had never gotten good results with it.  A...

Outsmarting the Clever Dripper

Larry Duran

Outsmarting the Clever Dripper Until recently, the Clever Dripper was one brewer I have owned for years but seldom used as I had never gotten good results with it.  A...