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RoR #32: New Season! Should You Pre-blend Your Green Coffee or Blend Post Roast? w/ Bryant Banker Scannell or Relative Coffee Co.

Jan 18, 2025

Bryant Banker Scannell, a roasting educator and founder of Relative Coffee Co., shares his extensive knowledge in coffee roasting. He discusses the debate between pre-blending green coffee for efficiency and post-roast blending for control and quality. Listeners explore how factors like bean size and elevation influence flavor profiles. Bryant emphasizes the importance of experimentation and understanding individual coffee characteristics, while balancing practicality and creativity in the roasting process. He inspires roasters to embrace the art and science behind coffee.

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Intro

00:00 • 4min

The Art and Science of Coffee Roasting

04:18 • 18min

The Evolution of Coffee: Embracing Flavor Development after Roasting

22:17 • 2min

Exploring Pre-Blending vs. Post-Roast Blending in Coffee Roasting

24:44 • 5min

The Art of Coffee Roasting

29:44 • 4min

Mastering Coffee Blending

33:29 • 14min

Balancing Practicality and Quality in Coffee Roasting

47:46 • 2min

Whether it started purely as a quest for efficiency, or as a way to achieve consistency in a blend, pre-blending green coffee is a pretty staple practice for coffee roasters. The alternative, and perhaps original way of blending is the classic post-roast blend whose adherents tout its ability to give them ulitmate control of each coffee and thus better quality.

Whether you do one or both of these methods of blending in your roastery, it always helps to explore the why behind them, and talk about the possible benefits and drawbacks of each.

To help us understand this more I am thrilled to bring on to the show roasting educator extraordinaire and founder of Relative Coffee Co., Bryant Banker-Scannell!

Bryant has helped launch the coffee careers of hundreds of new roasters through his work as lead roasting instructor and the heart of the in-house roastery at Mill City Roasters®. He also owns and operates Relative Coffee Co. which combines his passion of roasting, design, and photography to create a fun and tasty coffee brand. Based in Minneapolis, Bryant has worked in cafe and roasting positions since 2011. With over a decade of roasting experience, he believes coffee should be approachable, fun, and unique to your experience in the industry.

We discuss:

Bryant's Beginning in Coffee
Education Based in Reality
The Art and Science of Coffee Roasting
The State of Blending Coffee
Omni-Roasting vs. Individual Characteristics
Pre-Blending vs. Post-Roast Blending
The importance of Quality Balanced with Efficiency
The Importance of Heat Management in Roasting
Post-Roast Blending: Advantages and Considerations

Links:

www.relativecoffeeco.com

Instagram: @relativecoffeeco

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