Coffee roasting
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a stale blog. We haven’t updated this blog in a while and it’s time to change that! As always, we had a fantastic time at the SCAA conference and returned home with a very clear direction of what this year will look like Read more…
I’m excited to be writing about some very cool new features in our latest version of RoastLogger, our client application which roasters use to log hundreds of roasts each day all over the world. Roast Profile Translation / Zoom at Temperature If you’ve followed @RoastLog on Twitter, you may have Read more…
If you are in the planning stages of your business, you are in luck. We get the challenges that new startups face. We want to help you get your roastery off the ground. This is why we’re excited to introduce a new program that allows qualified startups to use RoastLog for Read more…
From day one, RoastLogger, our client application used for recording roast profiles, has had a “Roast Queue”. The idea behind it is pretty simple. When you start your roasting day, you know what you’re going to be roasting and, roughly, in what order. The Roast Queue provides a visual record and Read more…
Who can guess where this screen shot is taken from? If you guess RoastLogger version 0.3 circa 2009, you’re right! Notice there is a little field in there called “Heating Rate”. That thing made it into the earliest versions of RoastLogger, but I took it out since I never had Read more…
Right now the guys and I are sitting in downtown Portland getting in some last minute work (online cupping forms anyone? http://cuppinglog.com, plus we’re launching a new homepage!). This is the third year in a row that we’ll have a booth at the SCAA show. The entire weekend is exhausting, Read more…
So… what about post-roast blending? We get asked about that often. The current version of the RoastLog Green Inventory System stops keeping track of things as soon as they go into the roaster, yet one of the benefits of the Green Inventory System is tracking exactly how you are using Read more…
About a week ago, without much fanfare, we added a new feature to the RoastLog website. If you’ve been following us on Twitter you can probably guess what I’m talking about. It’s not a huge change but we think it could have pretty large implications in the way that roasters Read more…
I’ve been chatting with roasters lately about inventory, which we’ve said all along was the next major thing we’d be working on. Turns out that the roasters I’ve spoken with all have a few struggles handling inventory in just they way they’d like. “Affordable” off-the-shelf inventory software just doesn’t work Read more…
Over the past weekend more than two hundred roasters descended on the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington for the tenth annual Roasters Guild Retreat. There were a variety of activities that took place including peer tasting calibrations, grind and particle size analysis and round table discussions on issues related to the Read more…