Follow Up on i-Roast 2 Roasting Profile

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about customizing your roasting profile with the i-Roast 2 home coffee roaster. I'm happy to report that the beans turned out way better than using either of the two preset roasting profiles delivered with the i-Roast. I have been using green beans bought online from Vivace coffee roasters in Seattle. They supply their Dolce roast as green beans for half the price of the roasted beans, so once we get this nailed, we can all save a lot of money roasting our own beans!

The issue I have had with the two preset profiles on the i-Roast is that the bean is not roasted inside to the extent that the outside of the bean is. In other words, when the bean is ground, the color of the grinds is much lighter than the beans appeared before being ground. Following on from the reading that I mentioned in yesterday's post, I customized the profile to the following profile:

• 385F at 6 minutes


• 430F for 3 minutes


• 465F for 2 minutes

When I ground the beans for my breakfast coffee this morning, presto! The color was the same. The crema was also much better - richer and foamier. I think that the beans could be a tad darker yet, so next time I'm going to add 30 seconds to the second phase and see how that turns out. So the new profile will be:

• 385F at 6 minutes


• 430F for 3.5 minutes


• 465F for 2 minutes