Part of being a modern coffee roastery is never settling for “good enough”. In the past few months we’ve been testing new ways to roast coffee more energy efficiently - while making sure the coffee tastes as delicious as always.

On most coffee roasters your start temperature and speed of roasting is limited by a roasting defect called scorching. This is when the edges of the beans are burned by the high heat of the drum. Scorching will give the coffee an unpleasant, bitter and ashy taste.

However, on our roaster, the Loring S15 Falcon, this is much less likely to happen. The coffee is roasted using hot air instead of a hot drum, which means that the sides of the roasting chamber are much cooler than on a typical roasting drum.

This is why we’ve been able to create a faster profile with a much more aggressive temperature development. We have decreased the roasting time by more than 15% which will in turn decrease the amount of electricity and gas used.

We’ve tasted this profile up against many of our typical profiles, and we are really excited about the flavours we are able to highlight with this type of roast profile. The coffee has great sweetness and transparency, exactly what we want to unlock from the coffee.

We have paid $10.8/kg for the coffee (FOB).

The market price at the time of the contract was $4.47/kg.

This means we have paid 142% above the market price for this specific coffee.

Read more about why we pay more for our coffee here.