Saturday, January 06, 2007

Two Roasts with a Modified Gene Cafe Profile

Something a little different in the profile this time:
Stage 1: 300º F for 5 mins of warming / drying
Stage 2: 435º F for 4 mins (shortened from 5 mins 30 secs)
Stage 3: 460º F for 2 mins
Stage 4: 482º F for 2 mins 15 secs - 2 mins 30 secs (added)
Stage 5: 460º F for remainder of roast including 1st crack

I have included links to my roasting and brewing note for the two coffees that were roasting with this profile below:

Columbia Cauca Organic - La Esperanza
Ethiopia Late Harvest Yirgacheffe

7 comments:

Steve Scigliano said...

Eddie, I have a question about your profile: when you say 435 for 4 minutes do you mean you hold it at 435 once the GC reaches that temperature or you set the GC at the temperature for 4 minutes? The reason I ask is that my GC will not go from 300 to 435 in 4 minutes, rather it takes about 5 with 220 grams of beans.

Eddie said...

I mean to from the time you set it at 435 until the next time you change the temperature should be 4 minutes. For a myriad of reasons, different Gene Cafes with ramp differently. The point is that I don't want the temperature going any higher than that until I increase it.

Eddie

George said...

Just a quick thanks. I have learned a lot from your blogs and it has really shortened my learning curve.

Eddie said...

Thank you, George! I really appreciate that!

Theodore said...

Hi Eddie.
I am a beginner in home roasting and I bought my Gene Cafe partly from your positive comments, so can you help me giving some links to read something about?
I have bought the machine together with some green coffee beans and I try to roast them but after I learn something more.
Regards,
Theodore,
Athens Greece.

Eddie said...

Theodore,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you!

I would love to help you. Check out this link if you have not already done so:
http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/homeroast/267610?Page=1

Please feel free to email me directly. I could forward to you some of my notes from roasting.

Eddie

Eddie said...

Theodore,

Here is another link that might be helpful ...
http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/homeroast/281587#281587

and do check out Kevin's Gene Cafe Roasting blog too:
http://homecoffeeroastblog.blogspot.com/

Eddie