After drinking batch 3 yesterday I was pretty excited to get another roast going. I did so last night at around 9pm. I tried something different this time. In some of the reading I did yesterday I saw one guy recommending to 'warm up' your popper for a little bit before dumping in the beans. Up until this point I'd been starting out the process with the beans already in the popper. I thought, why not. Makes sense right? They will get darker if they start out at a high temperature rather than having to warm up with the machine. I started the machine and let it run for 1 full minute before dumping the beans in. I noticed a distinct difference in how quickly the beans started turning color. By 3 minutes they were a couple of shades darker than roast #3 at the same timeline. I missed first crack because I had to run out of the room for a second but it came somewhere around 4:00 - 4:30 again. In total I let this roast go for 10:30. Beans looked a little darker than batch #3. The smell is definitely darker with a hint of charring.
I am a little puzzled by the whole thing though and still unsure about my popcorn machine. I have to do some more roasting for sure. I would kind of like to find an old school 'poppery 2' or similar machine to try just to see if the results are different.
This pic from Sweet Maria's represents pretty well what I was able to produce from roast #4. Full City +
When I ground the beans it smelled terrific. That sweet candy-like scent of freshly ground coffee. I brewed the coffee the same way described in one of my previous posts. The cup tasted good. It was distinctly darker than the previous batches, as expected. It had more of a 'charcoal' flavor. Based on what I've been reading I believe I lost some of the 'origin' flavor and gained more of the 'generic' darker roasted coffee flavor. All in all it was a very good cup of coffee and I am pleased with the results.
I believe batch 3 was more flavorful. I think for batch 5 I may do somewhere in between. Maybe I will warm up the popper for a minute and then do a 9 minute roast.
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Hahaha. When you get to Preperation H, I think I'll passs.
I think you need a popper with a higher wattage rating. you said yours was 1200 watts.. maybe something like this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/B00006IUWA/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=1055398&s=home-garden
It's rated at 1440 watts.
I think you may be right but I am going to keep trying with this one before I give up on it so easy... You thinking of giving it a go?
Yea I might start this weekend.
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