Home Coffee Roaster Competition 2017

[Andy]

Hope we can get a discussion going here or in the roasting section about who used what roaster and how. So I can get a little feedback on what I'm (and others are) doing.

Don't talk about a discussion, just start it off with what you did and how you approached an unknown bean.

Maybe the top 10 ranked pro roasters from this year should fight it out next year in a mandatory control bean challenge using next year's home roaster bean!

Nice idea.

Hope this comp happens again in 2018

I think it will. It's a crazy amount of work and I'm a little surprised the number of entries is isn't higher but I still believe it's a great place for the apprentices of the industry to learn more and help blur the line between home and pro roaster.

Even if the home roaster isn't planning on entering the commercial area one day, roasting for competition really makes you critically focus on what you are producing and I personally find I carry those skills learnt right through the roasting journey.

[Yelta]

Congratulations to all who competed, particularly those who came away with a gong.

[fatboy_1999]

Many thanks to Andy for all the organisation here.
I'm pretty chuffed as I did OK in Milk. I'm rubbish at filter and not great at espresso, but was happy to see the scores.

[WhatEverBeansNecessary]

Thanks Andy for organising another great competition. I was hesitant to enter at first as I haven't roasted for long, but I guess it's true what they say you miss 100% of the shots you don't pull.

[Ernieman]

yay, I scored overall 6th place...
Hope we can get a discussion going here or in the roasting section about who used what roaster and how. So I can get a little feedback on what I'm (and others are) doing.

[trickydicky2]

Re Andy's comment: "had a lot of pro roasters say "I love the idea of a control bean, wish we could enter a competition like that". "

Maybe the top 10 ranked pro roasters from this year should fight it out next year in a mandatory control bean challenge using next year's home roaster bean!

This would also make it directly comparable for home roasters to gauge how they fare against pros using equipment ten or a hundred times more expensive

[Javaphile]

Congratulations to all the winners and entrants!


Java "Great show Andy!" phile

[Andy]

Sorry for the lag in posting, only just got back to the hotel at 1:30am and have net access now.

Wow, what a crazy week. 1400 entries plus 75 home roaster ones puts it close to 1500 coffees.

Thanks for the congrats, from our little corner of the Internet, CoffeeSnobs managed to score 3 silver medals in the 3 biggest categories:
Milk - Silver for Organic@Origin (a long time standard offering and the coffee that Fiefy and Tim use in their Adelaide cafes.)
Milk - Silver for CoffeeSnobs GOLD (My first gold winning coffee, not gold this time but mighty close!)
Espresso - Silver for CoffeeSnobs GOLD (works in both milk and espresso, love that as do my customers!)
Filter - Ethiopia Biftu Gesha (while it didn't medal it did score enough to push my total up).

So a huge night for me and a real surprise to score so well in the overall. Funny thing is that the Biftu filter entry was easily my favourite coffee of all my entries and I was surprised that it didn't appeal enough to the judges to score higher than it did. That's the fun of roast comp though. This is the same coffee that you guys roasted in the home roaster comp... and I'm sure some of you scored better than I did (although I won't know my actual scores for weeks to come). I kept a small amount of the Biftu roast at home so I'll be keen to get it in the Brazen to see what the judges got.

Like a proud father, I love seeing the Home Roaster Category. We had so many comments from industry professionals through the week who were stunned at the quality of the entries this year. Great to hear that! I've seen the score sheets and the comments range from helpful to lazy but again, that's the fun of competition too. I also had a lot of pro roasters say "I love the idea of a control bean, wish we could enter a competition like that".

Already posted by Richard (ta) but the 1,2,3 for each category and the overall was:

Espresso
1: Vincent – tangles
2: Adam – WhatEverBeansNecessary
3: Sherry – SherrySham


Milk
1: Charlie – Charlieoan
2: Brad – bradory
3: Mark – Chihuahua


Filter
1: Richard - trickydicky2
2: Tilly - Tilledwards
3: Miroslav – mireq


OVERALL
1: Miroslav – mireq
2: Vincent – tangles
3: Richard - trickydicky2

AWESOME!
Congats to all the winners and all those that had a go!

Attached here is the excel sheet with all the scores in it. Colours are self explanatory for totals in each section and the overall to get the above results. The rows are by CS invoice number so if you have forgotten it, go to BeanBay [My Previous Orders] and check there first.

I'll post the score sheets to you early next week (I have tons of roasting to do on Monday when I get back so it might be Tuesday before I post them out but they will come. Please don't make them take longer by asking when they will come and making me spend posting time in email though, you know I'll get snappy. ;-)

If your coffee didn't score as well as you hoped, don't be discouraged. There are a lot of factors that can make a coffee miss the mark so instead, have a play and see what you can improve. We still have the Ethiopian Biftu in BeanBay so you can grab some to play with. Also use the forum (this thread if you want) to discuss with others which changes you could make.

It was a really complicated coffee to roast so getting anything drinkable was really a feat in itself.

Well done Snobs everywhere!

[shinleung]

Congratulations to all.

[trickydicky2]

Congrats to Andy for big haul of silverware and overall runner up placing. That's massive

[trickydicky2]

Stoked with getting the nod for my Filter entry. ��

It will be great to see what feedback comes back from the judging on all the entries

Hope this comp happens again in 2018 ��

[trickydicky2]

Home roaster results

Results from GB Facebook page are in...





Congrats to the winners and everyone who had a go!

[matth3wh]

Home Coffee Roaster Competition 2017

Congratulations Andy for success at GB2017. And best pirate too by the looks!

It’d be a little disappointing if there wasn’t some tasty Pirate Life beer available. Missed opportunity 🤣

[Andy]

Yep, all very wired but we off-set it with red wine at night. Nearly a balanced diet although it's hard to do for much more than Golden Bean week.

Judging is all done, all the categories, 1500 cups later.
I was lucky enough to try some of the finals coffees and they were amazing, can't wait to hear who the artists were.

Now the long wait till tomorrow night for the announcements at the presentation dinner.

I'll get the home roaster winners up here as soon as I can but you might see them first on the GoldenBean instagram account #gbanz17
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[Janus]

I imagine the judges get pretty wired, even spitting out, just having that volume of coffee in your mouth there must be some osmosis or something into the blood stream?