Mahal Coffee Roast Log Blog

Beans: Brazil Pulp Natural Fazenda Alta Vista Varietals: Bourbon, Catuai Elevation: ~1000 masl Process: Pulp natural Retailer: Sweet Maria's Pre-Roast Weight: 233 grams Roast Attempt: 67th Roast Date/Time: February 20, 2022, 1300 CST This is actually another one that's been sitting around for a while - I ordered it as kind of a throw-in with an order I made in March 2021 when I really wanted to get a couple of Indonesian coffees plus a Burundian.  I hadn't tried a Brazilian yet... but to be honest Brazil is not an origin that tends to excite me hugely for a variety of reasons, and so I never found myself getting around to trying it as more interesting things kept popping up online.  I finally decided I needed to cut back on actually buying more green coffee until I was through what I already have, and that means finally getting around to the only bag in my coffee bin that hadn't been opened yet.  Hopefully I haven't left it too long. Given the issues I'v...

Beans: Kenya Nyeri Ichamama AB Varietals: SL-28, SL-34, Ruiru-11 Elevation: 1750 masl Process: Washed Retailer: Sweet Maria's Pre-Roast Weight: 247 grams Roast Attempt: 66th Roast Date/Time: February 5, 2022, 1230 CST It's rare that I revisit a batch of beans for this blog, but this is a special case - the first time I roasted these, I wasn't doing the blog yet.  Indeed, my handwritten roast log indicates that the previous roast was almost exactly one year ago - February 7, 2021.  However, I have no record in my tasting spreadsheet of what they were like!  It's possible this was an early roast that I did for someone else - nowadays I would never hand beans to another person unless I felt pretty confident I knew what they tasted like based on a previous roast, but that was the Wild West of roasting for Mahal Roasters (the roast just before this was my infamous, to me, screw-up where I took a Sumatran through second crack by accident, yielding a delicious bunch of o...