Bogotá: Coffee Roasting Session with a Q-Grader Roaster

Chapinero, Colombia



Watch a certified Q-grader roast +80 SCA Colombian green beans live. Learn the science behind the roast curve, cup the coffee fresh off the machine, and take home a 340 g bag of the batch.

Highlights

  • Watch a certified Q-grader roast +80 SCA Colombian green beans live
  • Learn the science behind the roast curve, from green bean to cup
  • Cup the coffee fresh off the machine and take home a 340 g bag of the batch
  • Discover how heat, airflow, and time turn a grassy green bean into chocolate
  • See how a 15-second call at first crack can reshape the entire cup

Description

Watch +80 SCA Colombian green beans travel through a full roast curve, guided live by a certified Q-grader at a specialty coffee shop in Bogotá. This isn't a slideshow — the roast happens in front of you, and the Q-grader narrates every decision as it's being made: charge temperature, first crack, development time, drop. Over 75 minutes you'll learn the science and the craft behind building flavor: how heat, airflow and time turn a grassy green bean into chocolate, citrus, caramel or stone fruit. You'll see how a 15-second call at first crack can reshape the entire cup, and why the same coffee can taste like three different drinks depending on the curve. At the end, you cup the exact batch that just came off the roaster — one of the freshest cups of coffee you'll ever taste, and the clearest way to connect what you saw at the machine with what lands in the cup. You leave with a 340 g bag of that same coffee and a real framework for reading any label. Green beans come from 12 traceable Colombian farms selected by sensory profile, and groups are capped at 10.

Includes

75-minute roasting session led by a certified Q-grader 80 SCA Colombian green beans (demonstration) Cupping of the freshly roasted coffee 340 g bag of the roasted coffee per person

Excludes

Transport to the meeting point Meals Gratuities

Important Information

  • This is a demonstration — the Q-grader operates the roaster; participants observe Groups capped at 10 people Please arrive 5 minutes early Good For: Coffee lovers and coffee geeks Home baristas curious about roasting Culture travelers Couples Foodies

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