CT's Coffee Blog

In addition to all the other factors you track to achieve a consistent roast year-round (think charge temp, airflow, and roasting time), it’s important you have at least a basic understanding of how environmental factors play a role.

In this article, we’ll look at four seasonal environmental factors that can influence coffee roasting — temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and altitude — and suggest considerations for each so that you can keep turning out great coffee during the coffee industry’s busiest season.

To consistently repeat a roast and efficiently scale it, you need to embrace your inner data geek and put today’s technology to work. So our question is: Are you fully utilizing roast profiling software and data collection in your coffee roasting business? Today’s coffee roast profiling software can minimize the variables affecting the quality of your roasted coffee, and it can also help you generate delicious roast profiles, reduce waste, and increase profits.

In this article, we look at the benefits of data collection, what data you need to collect, and some of the more popular roast profiling software options. When coupled with your coffee-roasting instincts, data collection can become one of your most prized tools for achieving unparalleled roasting profiles — delivering the same excellent taste time and again.

Mahlkönig and Ditting are both flat burr grinders, and both product lines offer different makes and models to address practically all of your coffee grinding needs. We’re proud to carry both brands’ product lines. In this article, we’ve saved you the legwork and will help you make the choice between two fairly fail-proof options. We’ll look at similarities and specialties of the two brands, highlight the superstars, plus set you up with five deciding factors for making your choice. As a bonus, we’ve thrown in two comparative charts so that you can geek out over all the details. Let’s make this decision easy for you and then send you on your way back to your roastery to keep grinding out (!) the good stuff that sets you apart from everyone else.

The world of industrial equipment brokering is not for the faint of heart. It demands a savvy and seasoned salesperson to adeptly handle the myriad details with equal measures of tenacity and tact. And for us at CoffeeTec, it’s a relationship-heavy role that requires a huge time investment in our clients’ lives — getting to know them, their business goals, and what they’re looking for or trying to sell. We’ve learned time and again that persistence pays off. We recently brokered two enormous Probat sales in two different countries that put almost every industrial equipment sales skill we had to the ultimate test in order to bring our buyers’ roasting dreams to life.

CoffeeTec CEO Scott Plail attended the SCA Expo in Boston April 8-10, 2022. This annual event is considered North America’s largest specialty coffee trade show— but it draws a massively large global crowd. If you didn’t get a chance to...

We’ve partnered with at least 15 amazing women coffee roasters this past year to help them buy and sell coffee equipment, and we’re happily watching that number grow. Like the arrival of spring itself, it’s refreshing to see more women roasters rise up and become visible in a coffee roasting scene traditionally dominated by men. March is National Women’s History Month, so it’s a great time to add to the larger conversation of recognizing women’s roles in every segment of the coffee supply chain. Our latest blog looks at how female coffee leaders are gaining ground, highlights some of our female clients and leaders to watch, and provides a directory of women-owned coffee businesses to support.