Coffee type

TheRoast Tinkerer

Green beans in, notebook open, heat on.

Drinking coffee is not enough for you. You want to know what happens inside the bean at 196 degrees, and preferably to be there yourself. Green coffee in the cupboard, a roaster on the balcony, a notebook full of curves: you are the person who explains rate of rise over breakfast.

• Green coffee in sacks
• A temperature probe and software
• Can smell first crack coming
• Gives away coffee with a homemade label

Your drink

Home roast number 47, as a pour over

Your brewer

Pour over

Your origin

Kenya

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