Coffee | One Roast at a Time
A slow, experience-led journey into home coffee roasting.
This is ongoing.
Coffee | One Roast at a Time is a practical home coffee roasting project focused on the Gene Café CBR-301. It brings together roast notes, structured observations, and simple guide pages built from repeated real-world roasts, with an emphasis on clarity, repeatability, and learning through experience rather than hype or fixed profiles.
One Roast at a Time
This is a personal coffee journal, written as I learn.
I roast coffee at home, slowly trying to understand what actually matters… and what doesn’t.
Most of this is just me writing things down so I don’t forget them, and in case it helps someone else who’s also figuring it out.
Over time, one thing has become clearer:
I’m not really adding flavour…
I’m setting the conditions…
and seeing what comes back.
What you’ll find here
- Notes from individual roasts
- What changed when one variable changed
- What I thought would matter — and didn’t
- What confused me, surprised me, or finally clicked
If you’re further along than me, you’ll probably disagree with some of this.
If you’re earlier, you might recognise the questions.
One roast at a time.
Start here
If you’re new, start with: