Section10 Senior Member Joined: 1 Oct 2012 Posts: 2 Location: Florida Expertise: I live coffee
Posted Mon Oct 1, 2012, 10:17am Subject: Bitter flavor from roasts.
Occasionally I'll get a roast that imparts more bitter flavors from the same batch of green beans. Unless i'm missing another factor I'm guessing its from the roasting drums itself since they tend to blacken with negative flavors. Whats the best way to clean these cages or drums?? Steel wool with soap in it can work but its very tedious and can't reach all the areas. Is there a recommended way of soaking the cages or drums in to degrease or help loosen the remnants that impart these flavors??
I just roasted more Kona coffee and while the delicious flavor is there so is the bitter. Again, this is considering I've ruled out other factors that have less chance of being the culprit like Water, Kettle...etc.
azerik Senior Member Joined: 6 Jun 2009 Posts: 278 Location: tempe Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Mon Oct 1, 2012, 12:55pm Subject: Re: Bitter flavor from roasts.
Section10 Said:
Occasionally I'll get a roast that imparts more bitter flavors from the same batch of green beans. Unless i'm missing another factor I'm guessing its from the roasting drums itself since they tend to blacken with negative flavors. Whats the best way to clean these cages or drums?? Steel wool with soap in it can work but its very tedious and can't reach all the areas. Is there a recommended way of soaking the cages or drums in to degrease or help loosen the remnants that impart these flavors??
I just roasted more Kona coffee and while the delicious flavor is there so is the bitter. Again, this is considering I've ruled out other factors that have less chance of being the culprit like Water, Kettle...etc.
I had thought about soaking my drum in Cafisa but it's be a lot of water and like 2 packets of the stuff for one drum. I use simple green and soak it, then use an abrasive sponge to scrub off what I can. How clean is the roaster it's self, and what kind of roaster?
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