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Education you can taste

According to Anne Cooper, also known as Roastress Coops, there’s a “minefield” of misinformation about how to roast coffee, most commonly that people believe the brand of roasting machine will create specific types of flavours for them.

To help remedy this misconception, Anne of Equilibrium Master Roasters in collaboration with fellow Australian roaster Ecre, has created four specially curated Educational Tasting Packs, each exploring a specific roasting approach.

“The first tasting pack is based on how to recognise and manage roast defects. Without the appropriate roasting approach, coffee can come out overdeveloped, underdeveloped, scorched, or baked. These can all ruin the flavour of entire batches of coffee. Known as ‘roast defects’,

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