Huky Roast Share & Learn w/ SM's Majirani Espresso Blend

[hankua]

Me too; Its definitely in the "comfort food" category. Lots of chocolate and with milk has the candy bar flavor. My two minute RD came out fine as a filter roast and espresso; going to shorten it up to 1:30 RD for filter and see if I can tweek some fruit flavors.

[JavaBuzz]

Just did my first two roasts yesterday. One Full City (attempt for espresso) and one City+/City++ (for filter, though might see what happens as espresso too).

I'll plan on posting the graph if I think they're worth looking at.

[Gregr]

Anyone want to do a swap? I'm going to try to roast another pound today and make it a little lighter than last time.

[JavaBuzz]

I will probably need a week or two before I'm ready to roast and swap, but I'd be interested.

Signed up for the Mill City FOTR, so roasting for that will take precedence the next week or two. Not really expecting to get to the 2nd round, but figure I'll give it my best shot and hopefully learn something in the process.

[Gregr]

Just pulled an early shot of the second Majirani blend roast. It tastes like it still needs a couple more days rest but after that wow- sweet and clear. Another very tasty shot, full of sugar cane sweetness. This roast surprises me in that the balance between brightness and body is almost identical to the first roast. That one had more development and a shorter drying phase. Not a lot but enough to taste a difference. Will report back when the beans have had a proper rest.
https://www.artisancoffeealliance.com/ACA/view.php?iroast=6-2016082512141001

[thusband]

I'm really enjoying this blend.  My first roast after two days rest was nice but not a lot of chocolate which I was expecting. Then each day after it was better and now after a week it seems to be at its peak.  Great mouth feel, low acid, caramel and fudge brownies.  My wife goes with a mocha and I stick to Americanos or espressos.

I roasted again yesterday and took it a little further than I planned but we'll see. I wanted to drop around 425.

Greg, would you like to swap?

https://www.artisancoffeealliance.com/ACA/view.php?isubmit=View&iroast=20-2016082613452001

[Gregr]

Unfortunately kenneroast got first dibs on this one so until I do another roast I can't do another swap. And to be honest, it's gonna be hard to give up any of it    That said, I would love to trade in the future, especially with a nice dark roast to contrast the medium roast I did.
I find it to be a little on the low acid too though I still get some coming thru at the tip of the tongue. Surprising considering the roast and cupping notes from SM's:

I like a bright espresso, and Full City shots are bracing to say the least.

[Gregr]

PS- SM's has got to be adding some new beans soon and as soon as they do I'll be ordering a few more pounds of our blend.

[rawman]

I wanted to see if I could join this so I ordered some of this last week..  But SMs isn't shipping anything until next week.

[hankua]

I'm enjoying it so far, with some milk it's got a "swissmiss" type taste. Also a little underwellming, mostly due to SM over enthusiastic description.

I haven't had a chance to roast more sample, going to try a light roast to see what happens. I want to try a "low and slow" type profile, with a short RD phase.

[JavaBuzz]

I wanted to see if I could join this so I ordered some of this last week..  But SMs isn't shipping anything until next week.

Rawman, you should be fine if you still want to join in. I'm guessing we'll still be roasting/discussing this bean at least another 4-6 weeks, possibly longer.

It's kind of nice taking a bit longer time on a bean and having a chance to dig into it more and share findings.

I still haven't tried mine as espresso yet (hopefully this weekend). Brewed some and thought it was good (a "City++" and Full City roast), but nothing really stand-outish when brewed. I think the roasts could taste really good as espresso though (so looking forward to that), and I could possibly roast a bit lighter for brew/filter and get a better brewed cup.

[hankua]

I just ran another one today using a "Rao" type declining ROR profile.

Time     Temp    Gas/kPa   Air/volts (variac)
0           150c        .50       25
1:45        92c        3.0       25
5:25      151c        2.0       30
6:36      170c        1.0       30
7:20      180c      0.75       35
8:14      190c      0.50       35
10:33    206c      0.50       45
10:51    207c      0.50       50
11:06    207c      0.50       70

[JavaBuzz]

Here was my first roast attempt (Full City/espresso in mind):
https://www.artisancoffeealliance.com/ACA/view.php?iroast=2-2016083023474501

Turned out pretty tasty for a first attempt. Would maybe take the development a hair longer to try to bring the chocolate notes more forward. I like my espresso shots chocolatey though.

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[JavaBuzz]

Thanks!

I made a bunch of buttons for the fan/power percents to click on when I'm roasting.

The actual "bubble" view is the default (blank) view in Artisan for fan, power, etc. (under Events>Bars dropdown). A lot of people switch that dropdown to Type or Value, but I think it's harder to read. I wish you could do the bubbles in addition to Type or Value.

Does that make sense?