The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course Companion Workbook

This workbook is a 100-page digital PDF resource designed as part of The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course featuring Mark Michaelson. The workbook contains a wealth of information, charts, resources, and references covering the formal process of sample roasting. Beginning with an exploration of sample roasting’s role in a global coffee industry, the book details tasks and knowledge such as effective record-keeping, physical and sensory evaluation, operation of a variety of sample roasting machines, coffee roasting concepts, and much more. This book is presented as a pdf, with a link sent to download after purchase. The book contains three main units with an appendix covering the course's overview on coffee quality. Read a description of each unit below: The Business of Sample Roasting introduces the idea of sample roasting as a formal procedure in the global industry. This unit covers contract and sample types, all of the tasks associated with sample roasting in your business, and the organizational needs to run a successful sample roasting program. Evaluation, Record-keeping, and Documentation is filled with technical information and scientific explanations of several important qualities to consider when sample roasting. This unit details how to evaluate physical characteristics of your green coffee and how those evaluations can inform your roasting decisions for quality results. Consistent, Standardized Sample Roasting examines basic roasting principles and how those can be applied to roasting green coffee samples. Through both practical and scientific lenses this unit teaches roasting concepts, the science behind some of the chemical changes happening in your coffee, and provides details on benchmark times and temperatures for different roast stages in order to produce consistent roasted coffee samples. See the preview blocks below for a complete list of chapters included in each section of the workbook. While the workbook was written to accompany the instructional videos in The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course featuring Mark Michaelson, it is also available individually to offer its invaluable resources to help roasters develop a formal and standardized sample roasting program for their business. To learn even more about sample roasting, check out The Comprehensive Coffee Sample Roasting Course featuring Mark Michaelson.