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Management

As for the smoke vent, make sure you clean it from time to time
because it could introduce the smoke smell to your coffee if it’s
blocked.

Quality control - Roast what you are going to use in the
café or to your client’s order. Cup regularly or get a evaluation
tool to help you control the quality.
- Coffee moisture tester measures the green beans moisture
content before roasting.
- Agton helps evaluate the colour of the roasted coffee and allows
you make decisions on green bean selection.
- Coffee/Espresso Refractometer (VST or Atago) helps you
evaluate the cup quality.
Constantly evaluate coffee whether by cupping or
evaluation tools or both. Always record your progress and find-
ings, keep learning, and regularly ask for customer’s feedback.
Product Design - In addition to making your product
Coffee lovers and young coffee drinkers nowadays are more attractive, package material should be suitable for coffee
trying to get their hands on more specialty coffee. That’s why storage in order to preserve its quality.
extra attention is needed in how coffee cherries are processed Customers - Besides the attention to environmental
into green beans. Besides sourcing from reliable suppliers, some and community impacts, a roaster should be located in an easily
roasters even travel to coffee plantations to manage coffee accessible location, not too far from communities or tourist at-
processing themselves. The first step to good coffee beans is tractions.
picking only ripe cherries, and whether the coffee is dry pro- Public Relation - Get words and news to your potential
cessed, honey processed, or wet processed, doing the processing customers. Use what’s available, especially internet medias.
yourself might be time-consuming and costly, but it is extremely Hopefully this article can be of some guidance to begin-
rewarding if you’ve done your homework well. ner roasters or anyone with a roasting machine to improve and
Buying from coffee farms - it’s a good idea to visit further develop your coffee.
coffee farms during harvesting months to get a look at available
parchment coffee. The downside of this is it’s rare to find green
beans straight from the farm, so you may need some expertise
in parchment coffee. On the other hand, it’s great to personally
see the work behind the coffee, and you can choose quality farm
to buy from.
Buying from suppliers - it’s more convenience as you
can choose quality green beans from a list of origins. However,
sometimes it’s not possible to choose the processing method
from your preferred origin. The beans may be more expensive
if the demand is high.
If you are a roaster living in coffee producing country,
you could grow or buy coffee cherries from surrounding farms
to process in your own way. It’s rewarding, but it will cost a lot
of time, effort, and money.
If your green beans change colour during storage, it
might be from a range of factors from moisture content and
green bean density to storage time, processing method, storage
method, and transportation method.

Roasting
Some roasting machine comes preset while others need About the Writer
a little programing done. Read the manual thoroughly and plan Jeeraphan Kanchanaveera (Yut)
your roast well. Always measure the moisture content to de- Owner of Green food coffee, 39 Moo 1 Sop-Pueng
termine the preliminary heat level and the drum temperature. Mae-Tang Chiangmai 50150
It’s crucial to record your roast profile in your roast book, roast Green Food Coffee offers simple dishes, steak, and
form, or in your computer in order to repeat the steps. great coffee. Yut grows, processes, roasts, and brews his
Clean the roasting machine thoroughly after each use. own coffee.
Take time to check the machine parts like gas pipes and connec- Qualifications: Q Arabica Grader , Process coffee
tors. Clean up all coffee chaff as it can be extremely flammable. Camp by Torch, Sensory judge NTBrC Thailand 2016

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