Journal
What we changed, and what it did to the cup.
Written between roasts, mostly about the twenty seconds after first crack.
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Development ratio, and why we print it on the bag
The minute and three quarters after first crack decides most of what you taste. Here is the one number we steer by, what it does to the cup at each end of its range, and how to read it off the sheet in your bag.
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Rest: why the bag tastes different on day nine
Coffee opened the morning it is roasted tastes flat, gassy and oddly thin. The same bag on day nine tastes like the thing we sold you. Here is what is happening inside the bean, and how long to leave it.