Jasonscheltus wrote:i participated in a sensory training exercise where one of the samples was a double roast. We cupped it blind, and it cupped up a lot better than the "baked" and the "fast" roasts.
I think there are definitely common practises that produce a worse flavour than the double roast.
That's interesting Jason, thanks for sharing that. I defend this practice as an emergency measure because some years ago my "automatic" roaster decided it was time to dump the beans just before they entered first crack. Since they were beans from Molokai, Hawaii, brought back by a friend who paid big money for them I couldn't bear to just bin them, so I let them cool down and then reroasted them. I guess it was just evidence that you couldn't ruin great beans because they were some of the best I had ever tasted.