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Permalink Reply by Mike McGinness on September 11, 2011 at 7:36pm

My opinion of First Crack? A quite friendly chap and should always happen. Not so much I'll go so far as to say rarely Second Crack, awnry dude.

 

Ok, to answer question, yes it depends on the coffee. Don't ask how in what way(s) not going to write a book...! 

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Permalink Reply by Dustin DeMers on September 12, 2011 at 12:51am

I'm going to chime in here, even though I don't know a lot about roasting. Cause I wish there was more roasting talk on this site. When i first started roasting (not that long ago) I would always kill the heat way before first crack, cause I always read about extending the time after first crack. This lead to some sour coffees, cause my drop temp ended up being way to low. Now I approach FC more aggressively. I still tone down the heat slightly right before FC hits most of the time, but now its just seconds before FC starts.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Grady on September 12, 2011 at 1:05pm

it really depends on the coffee and what you are trying to get out of it. i take the approach that it is all about momentum coming into first crack, not too much and not too little. but like everything else with roasting, you have to taste everything, do sample roasts with lots of momentum and sample roasts with less, then go from there

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