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I have a variety of Sweet Maria's beans, it's been different ones each time. I think I started out roasting them all really fast. The one in the first picture I was aiming for a light roast so that one was even faster.

It's worth noting that instant coffee and ground coffee are completely different things. Instant coffee is just drinkable coffee dried and condensed. So you're drinking 100% of what's in the spoonful. Ground coffee is mostly plant fiber. By weight, only a small percentage of the "stuff" in a...

That roast above was 130g, because I read that was what worked best for that roaster. I believe that having that many beans made them roast faster, due to heat being trapped. That roast lasted less than 6 minutes, also because the instructions I got suggested that was ok? From reading about it...

Since doing that batch I've roasted them slower, keeping the power lower and the fan higher for longer. This seems to give them more time to be evenly exposed to heat and the next few have had a more uniform color.

The protocol I'm following said to turn the fan down early in the roast process. This definitely reduced the agitation, and I think increased the heat exposure, meaning the beans didn't have as much time to be fully cycled through and receive even heat. I read some advice about this roaster...

What's the significance of green batch weight? I always put the same weight into the roaster, but I haven't compared the density of the green beans I'm starting with.

They aren't, they're from the same batch of green beans. I think the roaster didn't roast evenly

In my experience, any coffee from a professional roaster is roasted much lighter than any "mainstream" commodity brand, like Starbucks or Folgers. Also, in my experience, lighter roasts call for a much smaller grind than dark roasts do. Dark probably gives you more "body" in the cup, but of...

I'm using the FreshRoast SR540. I ran it on power level 7, and turned the fan down to 3 because that's what Sweet Maria's guide suggested. I had another roast at a higher fan level and it seemed to take much longer for first crack. It looks like some of these are too dark and some too light, and...