Home Coffee Roasting with the Gene Cafe Roaster

As you may know, August is National Coffee Month, and I couldn't be more excited to celebrate my love for coffee with you!
I was thinking about how best to do this and thought It would be a perfect opportunity to share with you how I roast great coffee at home using the Gene Cafe Roaster.
I used my favourite roast profile and we're diving deep into the captivating world of the coffee bean and its incredible life cycle and I’ll let you know when the various key stages arise during the roast process.
Just know this - I’m no expert roaster and make no claim to be one - I do however really like the stuff this roaster produces which I feel makes great quality coffee.
In this film we take Ethiopian Sidamo Gr 2 green beans to a medium roast to retain as many of the citrus fruit, floral notes and honey like sweetness as possible.
Roast Method:
Pre-heat drum to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes
Charge drum with 250 grams of green beans
Target temperature 1: 240 degrees Celsius until first crack
when in rolling first crack lower temp to -
Target temperature 2: 235 degrees Celsius until end of roast
Rapidly cool the beans out of the machine - I don't recommend the inbuilt cooling cycle.
Let me know what you think.
Music: Jazz Apricot: by Joey Peroraro YouTube music.