Union Roastery & Academy

Meet international roasters from different countries; roast with various roasting machines, methods; origin study and etc..

It’s all gonna happen at International Coffee Roasting Conference 2023!

One of the reasons why coffee bean sorting is important: to sort out the foreign object.

Coffee has been sorted many times by the time it reaches to our cup. From coffee cherries that sorted by ripeness, green beans that sorted by density, to post-roast sorting of burned beans, quakers and foreign objects, such as small stone, debris and etc.

This final sorting is done to ensure highest quality beans are brewed in our cup, resulting in more consistent and better cup of coffee. ☕️

Always precious and pleasure moment to be able to keep learning, especially from the specialist who is passionate and constantly learning, experimenting and opening to new ideas.

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Evaluate roasted coffee quality through extraction of different water vs different roast profile other than coffee cupping.

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Calibration of preheat temperate, roast time, airflow and end time when roasting minimal amount of beans in larger capacity roaster.

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Uncommon method of pre roast processing through all kind of moistures besides beans size and density sorting.

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Fast roast vs slow roast, temperature vs time, Maillard vs hydrolysis.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.
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Soft water vs hard water.
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Soft water vs hard water vs roast profile

The proper way to store coffee green beans:

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Room temperature at 15°c to 25°c, which usually air conditioned room for hotter countries (eg: Malaysia).

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Stable humidity at around 60% to prevent green beans from mold growing, drying out and flavour losing.

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Away from light, as dark as possible to prevent drying out and reducing in aroma and flavours.

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Do not store green beans next to food or anything with strong smell as it will absorb aroma and flavours.

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Insects such as weevils and psocids not only affects the quality of green beans, but also reduces green beans weight.

Three main coffee processing methods and how it affects your cup of coffee:

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Drying - Fermentation - Depulping
⬆️ body | sweetness |
⬇️ acidity

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Depulping - Fermentation- Washing - Drying
⬆️ acidity
⬇️ body | sweetness

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Depulping - Drying - Fermentation - Hulling
↔️body | sweetness | acidity

Coffee beans are from cherry-like fruits called coffee cherry. It’s made up of outer skin, pulp, parchment, silver skin, and finally the coffee seed/bean.

Can you eat coffee cherries? Yes, you can, it’s a fruit! And it tastes sweet like mangosteen.

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Featuring hundreds of exhibition booths, engaging competitions, show-stopping cooking demo and so much more, so don’t miss out this year! See you at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) from 6-9 October.