Behmor

[Crema_Lad]

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It refers to the Coffeesnobs member cards.  I take it you have one.  The color of the roast is associated with a panel of the card.  The first panel which is green would be CS1

NOPE I will order one with my next Beanbay order pretty soon though, thanks to the $20 credit as part of the Behmor deal !!

[FGOB]

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Got mine today. Did a dry burn. First roast this evening after she who must be obeyed goes to bookclub so she cant complaint about the smoke if it all goes pear shaped. She already reckons its bigger than a fridge and belongs in the laundry.

[Luke_G]

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Hahahahaha Funny stuff!

Im sure she will come around when she tastes the final product

[Andy]

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Realy new to coffee, and living in regional Vic have trouble scourcing fresh roasted beans. Looking at the Behmor it seems to be an entry level real roaster. Looking at the CS website one page states New arrivals, but another tells me they are out of stock. Are they or when will they be available.

We send fresh roasted beans anywhere in Oz... even regional Victoria and typically you will get them 1 day after roasting anywhere in Australia. See BeanBay roasted section for details.

As for Behmor stocks, you are a couple of days too late. We landed this batch last Thursday and sold out yesterday. There might be 1 or 2 more to come online as we are waiting for payments. If they take too long to pay then the roasters will go into BeanBay for someone else who is waiting.

We have more on the way, they will arrive in July.

[Pavoniboy]

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Question, in both instances I hit the COOL button with over 1.00 minute to go in both cases. Is this normal.????

You definitely want your roasts done so that you need to hit cool before it ends. Using the P2 program, it will fire back up to 100% for the last leg - this is bad! You dont want it to fire back up to 100%, so yes needing to hit cool earlier is normal.

You basically need to predict when you would want your beans to stop roasting and hit cool about a minute before this if you are using the Behmor cooling cycle (I like others pull out the drum and cool the beans in our own coolers - this stops the roast almost instantly). You wont know how to predict this until youve gone a bit past it to begin with...but youll get the hang of it with a little experience.

[phrostyboi]

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sounds like im not the only one who murdered their first roast of the poor peru beans

ive noticed that the smaller roasts tend to get to 2nd crack must faster than the larger roasts, from my own obervations, whereas the larger roasts at times have struggled to go to 2nd crack

would doing a 1/2lb roast on the 1lb setting be a better idea maybe to avoid the 100% ramp of p2/b?

[Andy]

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Andy Freeman wrote on Jan 5th, 2010, 9:53am:
crazyroaster wrote on Jan 5th, 2010, 8:58am:
Can anyone tell me if this is correct or if Im missing a spring on the chaff collector?


Yes, thats right.They are not spring loaded but instead use the door to push the chaff tray handle into the correct position.

I found that having the tray out a little (circa 10mm) when closing the door helps make it a smoother action too.


Having the tray slightly out definitely helps with closing the door. Mine would not close if the tray is fully in.

Just requoting the quote so those that are having trouble closing the door know the fix.


There are 2 or 3 different chaff trays, some with a spring, some without. Seems its fairly random as to which you get with the roaster.

Leave the chaff tray out 10mm then close the door.

The angle of the door closing will push the handle up and slide the tray in. The spring-less chaff tray works really well holding the door open if you want it ajar at the end of the roast for faster cooling too.

[kwkh]

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My Behmor arrived today with the 2.5kg Peru Ceja de Selva. Quite a bit bigger than I imagined, like the size of a small microwave oven.

The mounting points for the cylinder needed a little tweaking to allow the square peg end to fit into the motor drive sufficiently as to allow the motor to turn the cylinder.

After doing the dry burn and letting it cool, I started my first roast ever in the garage with the settings suggested here.

225g, half lb, P2, B.

I started to hear the popping at 8 minutes from the start. First crack ceased at 9:30 mins. Second crack started 9:50 -- did not expect it to come so soon as the times for start of first crack posted here were closer to 10 mins. Anyway I hit the cool button and opened the door at 10:00 just as a small amount of smoke started to appear.

The colour of the beans seemed a similar dark brown to a batch I bought at a local roaster -- will need to get that calibration card.

Was it a little odd that the first crack started so early here? Can there be such a wide variation in times? The popping sound was quite distinctive, and I heard the other sound later, so I dont think Ive made a mistake with interpreting the sounds.

Thanks all CSers for the discussion on this roaster -- Ive been meaning to get into roasting for many months and just heard about this unit on the forum recently.

[Grinhill]

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The mounting points for the cylinder needed a little tweaking to allow the square peg end to fit into the motor drive sufficiently as to allow the motor to turn the cylinder

Hi, just received my new Behmor today!

Mine must be from the same batch as yours kwkh, it has the same issue with the motor drive. The drum shaft length seems to be short by about 5mm.

How exactly did you "tweak" yours to remedy this, kwkh?

Thanks

[Gra]

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Hi, just received my new Behmor today!

Mine must be from the same batch as yours kwkh, it has the same issue with the motor drive. The drum shaft length seems to be short by about 5mm.



How exactly did you "tweak" yours to remedy this, kwkh?

Thanks

Hi Grinhill

You just have to pull the cradle bracket on the left hand side and bend forward till the shaft takes up on the motor ..easy dose it .

Cheers Gra..

[Grinhill]

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Thanks Gra, I was just a bit nervous about bending parts on my shiny new toy!

Im still reading through the preceding 7 pages of posts, then Ill jump in and start roasting.

This will be much easier than doing 5 batches in the Crazy Popper every week.

[kwkh]

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The drum shaft length seems to be short by about 5mm.

How exactly did you "tweak" yours to remedy this, kwkh?

Thanks

I did what Gra did -- gently bent the aluminium bracket on the left side out a little.

Made a latte this morning from the batch I roasted last night -- will see how the flavour changes over the next few days.

[rjo89]

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Well I got around to doing another roast tonight. 225g Peru on settings 1/2lb, P2 B. First crack at around the 8min mark, second crack starting around 90seconds later and pulled with just under 3 mins left (10 minutes in). Final weight was 195g and it came out at about CS8/9. (sorry for the dodgy pic. Stupid iPhone camera) Would have preferred it a bit darker but this was certainly better than my first attempt. This roasting business is good fun

[kwkh]

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Looks like you got similar times to me, rjo89. I wonder if anyone can advise when the roasted beans will reach its peak for drinking? Ill be making myself a drink 1-2 times a day of my first batch of roasted beans.

[phrostyboi]

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all depends on the beans, different beans peak at very different times, then its up to your own personal taste

on a few roasts ive done in behmor, ive found at around 5 - 7 days the beans lose the initial brightness and start to develop bolder flavours and characteristics

then you stumble upon something like robusta or monsooned indian, both of which are best left for 10 days to 2 weeks before using (my experience anyway)

I foudn the Peru to be nice from around 6 days post roast