Two Minutes to Better Coffee.

Photo courtesy of Sean Benesh/ Unsplash By now it’s clear how critical it is to micro-manage your roast at almost every stage of the cycle. In the past weeks, we’ve discussed...

Photo courtesy of Anastasia Zhenina / Unsplash Following last week's installment on dark roasting coffee, it seems fitting to offer a few tips for producing quality light roasts. The simplistic misnomer...

Photo courtesy of Ria Puskas / Unsplash When I (Dan) was roasting back in the early 90s, I roasted for a café in San Francisco that was owned by a nice Iranian...

Folks who roast coffee occasionally geek-out over the topic of “development time”—that duration during a roast cycle after the beginning of first crack until the coffee is discharged. This time...

Shade Grown Coffee In our last Take2 installment we discussed the basic ins and outs of growing coffee in high altitude conditions. This week we provide a brief overview of...

High Altitude Growing. As mentioned last week, growing coffee in the cooler air of tropical mountain ranges creates valuable stress in coffee plants. The cooler air causes each plant to...