Roasting Indonesia Finca de Berman: 3 Home Roasts and How Each Tasted

The journey

• Tasted good
• Had a fault
• Not tasted yet

What the roasts show

1. Roast 1: Bright Filter at level 2.2, 100 g. 1 good.
2. Then profile Bright Filter → Gentle Filter: roast 2. 1 good.
3. Then level 2.2 → 2.3: roast 3. 1 not tasted.

• Weight lost: good roasts 11.6%–13.6%.
• Time in the hot zone: good roasts 2:26–2:40.
• End temperature: good roasts 223 °C–224 °C.
• Good cups were tasted after 11 days of rest (2 tastings).

This shows what differed in the roast. It does not say why the cup tasted different.

Recipes tried

• Gentle Filter

  Still dialling in · 2 roasts · Hot zone 2:26

  • 2.2 · 1 roast, Tasted good
  • 2.3 · 1 roast, Not tasted yet

• Bright Filter

  Moved on · 1 roast · Hot zone 2:40

  • 2.2 · 1 roast, Tasted good

Compare two recipes

Nothing differed by more than normal roast-to-roast variation.

• Weight lost about the same (12.0% vs 11.6%)

No usable roast log for Gentle Filter at level 2.3, so hot zone and end temperature are not compared.

This shows what differed in the roast. It does not say why the cup tasted different.