Bean size

Uneven color and heat application

Uneven color and heat application

Learn how uneven roasting occurs and strategies to achieve uniform color across a batch.

Drum vs fluid-bed roasters

Drum vs fluid-bed roasters

Understand the fundamental differences between drum and fluid-bed coffee roasters, including how each affects heat transfer, flavor development, and batch consistency.

Designing profiles for density and size

Designing profiles for density and size

This topic covers how to create roasting profiles tailored to bean density and size, ensuring even roast and optimal flavor development.

Sample prep and moisture verification

Sample prep and moisture verification

This topic explains how coffee samples are prepared for analysis during milling and how moisture verification ensures beans meet quality and safety standards before export or roasting.

Density separation (gravity tables)

Density separation (gravity tables)

This topic explains how density separation using gravity tables is applied in coffee milling, why it matters for quality, and how it improves uniformity and market value.

Rainfall patterns and dry seasons

Rainfall patterns and dry seasons

This topic explores how rainfall distribution and dry seasons affect coffee flowering, fruit development, and harvest cycles, and why water availability is critical to both yield and quality.