How to Roast Honduras La Flor HON01: NCT Filter D Recipe
Dialing in Honduras La Flor HON01 — 7 logged home roasts with real metrics
Honduras · Lempira · Washed · 1,100-1,400 · SHG EP · John Burton
Aroma of roasted almonds, burnt caramel and starfruit. Flavours of chocolate water, roasted almonds, and starfruit with long burnt caramel aftertaste. Medium acidity and round body. Score: 82.25+
“This was nice but also nothing special. I’m wonder if I developed this roast this little bit darker if it will become more flavorful.”
Winning batch R-088 · 2026-06-30
Cup quality across 7 attempts
Each point is a roast scored from tasting notes (1 = miss, 5 = dialed in). The series stops at the teal halo — once dialed in, later repeats aren’t scored the same way.
Where the good cups live
Roast level vs batch size. Color = profile family; larger dots = better cups. Notice how quality clusters once batch size moves to 100–120g.
Roast mechanics that stuck
DTR, roast loss, and rate-of-rise across attempts with klog data. Each series is scaled on its own axis so shapes are comparable.
What the data taught us
- 1This washed Honduras has been stubborn — early F-WSH 1000-1700 cups were bland, grassy, or sour without sweetness.
- 2Pushing level alone (2.0 → 3.0) reduced green but never unlocked a clear cup profile.
- 3Best so far: NCT Filter D at 3.0 / 120g (R-088) — “nice but nothing special”; R-098 at 3.2 is the darker experiment.
- 4Still dialing for sweetness/body rather than a finished origin-clarity win.
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