Roasting Gesha - Profiling Red Honey Gesha from Volcan Azul - Costa Rica | Coffee with April

This week, we're bringing you another video detailing our approach to roasting coffee. This time around, we've got a phenomenal Gesha varietal from the Volcan Azul farm in Costa Rica.
In this video, you can hear about our approach to profiling, as well as gaining insight into the data and measurements we used to define this roast. As always, this roast was completed using a Loring Smart Roaster and the measurements were taken using LightTells moisture and density readers.
We visited the farm to speak with Alejo earlier this year, so make sure to look back through our video catalogue to learn more about how this coffee was cultivated and processed. If you have any additional questions, make sure to list them in the comment section below.
For those interested in the data, you can find the information below:
- 10:25 Total
- 1:02 Dev Time
- 208.4°C End Temp
- 13,9 Top RoR
- 5,3 Crack RoR
- 3,8 End RoR
- 89,7 Inner Colour
- 69 Outer Colour
- 9.5% Green Coffee Moisture
- 696g/L Green Coffee Density
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Produced by April Media - 2020

[@ncokicsi]

Cant wait to recieve it, it has been sitting in the hungarian sorting center for 5 days now.

[@deanmitchell7129]

What is your approximate time to yellow? Do you mark the start of first crack by a specific temp reading, or by sound?
Thanks for sharing, cool video!

[@coffeewithapril]

On this coffee, we mark crack at 199.9'C.

[@pithyginger6371]

Just got a bag!

[@coffeewithcarl1779]

Love the roasting videos, super interesting!

[@snjspring]

Holy cow 1 min after 1C seems REALLY light. If you don't mind - how much temp past 1C are you experiencing in that 1 min.

[@coffeewithapril]

Around 6’C

[@3MatthewR]

Hejsa Patrik, the charge temp looks lower than your usual 200°, how many kg were you roasting on your 15kg machine? thanks a lot!

[@adhocist8998]

With the different density like panama gesha would it still be a good experiment to try it similar profile like this?

[@alepwolly2877]

What's your charge temperature for geisha varietal based on coffee process? For example washed..

[@RummyKeshet]

Thanks for sharing the info! What was the batch size??

[@coffeewithapril]

15kg

[@RummyKeshet]

@@coffeewithapril that's a lot of geisha in one go 😅 amazing

[@andresgil3035]

Do you consider that this type of Coffe bean needs to get roast more fast compared to a normal Coffe bean (typica washed) ?

[@coffeewithapril]

Not as a general rule.