Stumbled into a tiny coffee roastery in Portland last weekend

The owner showed me their roasting log from 2012 (yeah, they kept every single batch recorded by hand). They had notes on bean moisture levels for each roast that changed by only 0.2%, which blew my mind. Has anyone else seen a roastery keep such detailed records over a decade?

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jamiew834mo ago

OH MAN this is right up my alley. I actually READ a piece in some coffee nerd blog a while back about how the top-tier roasteries log everything down to the time of day and humidity just to keep their batches consistent. So yeah @kelly.emma it's probably a quality obsession thing, not just a one-time issue. Like if you're charging $25 for a bag of beans you BETTER know that 0.2% moisture difference is real. Honestly it makes me respect the craft way more when you see someone treating coffee like a science experiment for over a decade.

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kelly.emma4mo ago

That 2012 log is impressive, but I'm curious what batch numbers they're up to now. What triggered them to keep that level of detail in the first place, a quality issue or just obsession?

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