Guide

The Agtron scale is the number system coffee roasters use to describe roast color. A color reader shines near-infrared light onto a coffee sample and measures how much of it...

Diedrich vs US Roaster Corp is one of the most common head-to-heads for roasters shopping for American-built drum roasters. Both companies build machines by hand in the United States. Both...

You've narrowed it down to an Aillio Bullet. Good choice. Now comes the harder part: the Aillio Bullet R1 vs R2 question, plus the R2 Pro sitting one step above...

Do you need an afterburner for your coffee roaster? The honest answer is that your local air agency decides, not the roaster maker and not the seller. Some districts require...

Stronghold S7 vs S7X vs S7 Pro comes down to one question: how much heat control do you want at an 850 g batch? All three share the same compact,...

Loring vs Probat is really a choice between two ideas about how coffee should be roasted. Probat has built rotating drum roasters in Emmerich, Germany, since 1868. Loring builds convection...

A roaster is the machine everyone pictures. But a working roastery is a line of equipment, and coffee moves through every piece before it reaches a bag. So what equipment...

Ask any roaster about their first machine, and you'll hear a familiar story. They outgrew it. Driftaway Coffee started on a home roaster that held 8 to 9 ounces per...

A used roaster's paperwork tells you more than its photos ever will. The problem is that most buyers get a folder of invoices, a few handwritten log pages, and a...