Coffee roasting
One thing I find fascinating is trends and statistics. I have some monitoring set up using munin so that we can keep track of all sorts of server stats….number of web requests served, MySQL queries, memory usage, etc. It’s all that good stuff that any good (or paranoid) web developer Read more…
Quality. It’s what makes specialty coffee special. Over the last several years, it has been really great to see an increasing number of roasters pushing the envelope of coffee quality. Sourcing great coffee through development of new relationships between farmers/millers and importers/roasters surely has had an impact, slow but steady, Read more…
Our reason for existing is to help coffee roasters do their jobs. That means increased efficiency, greater consistency in your product, greater accuracy in your adjustments to roast profiles, faster training of new employees, and greater pleasure in the act of roasting coffee. First, RoastLog is simply a set of Read more…
In terms of the questions we get regarding RoastLog, the one we get most often isn’t even about RoastLog, per se. The one area of complication for our system, and any temperature measuring system, is how exactly to accurately and precisely measure what you’re interested in. In our case, that’s Read more…
One of the great things about the coffee industry in general, and about coffee roasters specifically, is the type of people who are attracted to the trade. You are just as likely to see a musician or a sculptor standing next to a roaster as you are a former electrical Read more…
One thing we haven’t done a very good job of yet is actually describing how RoastLog works, and what it’s capable of. Let’s look at a diagram. There are three pieces to the RoastLog system: The Data Bridge The RoastLogger desktop application (installed on your computer, for Mac or PC) Read more…