“Coffee Roasting: Best Practices” is the culmination of Scott Rao's 25 years of experience as a roaster and consultant. It stands as the most advanced guide ever written on expert coffee roasting. There is minimal overlap with his previous work, “The Coffee Roaster’s Companion,” which primarily covered roasting fundamentals and various types of roasting equipment.
CRBP primarily focuses on advanced techniques for shaping and controlling roasting curves, dedicating numerous pages to strategies for preventing Rate of Rise (ROR) crashes and flicks, baked coffee, unnecessarily over-developed roasts, and other common roasting defects. This book establishes the benchmark for third-wave coffee roasting methodology.