2024 World Coffee Roasting Championship - Top 10 summary

In this video, members of the Nucleus Coffee Tools and Kaffelogic teams provide a summary and analysis of the sample roasting from the top 10 competitors of the 2024 World Coffee Roasting Championship. Examining variances in roast approach – including batch size, development percentage (DTR), fan adjustments and more – we look at how different competitors utilised features of the LINK sample roaster in the world's most prestigious coffee roasting competition. To download the PDF of the top 10 competitor's roast, plus the roast profiles of the top 4 finalists, click here: https://we.tl/t-WzOupL6eHX 00:00 Introduction and competition explanation 01:12 Competition overview 04:12 4th place: 成磊/Chenglei 刁/Diao, China 11:57 3rd place: Andrea Trevisan, Austria 23:23 2nd place: Mateusz Derkacz, Poland 33:11 1st place: 刘太阳 - TaiYang Liu 44:29 Using filter or cupping profiles 53:19 Utilising Advanced Dial-in 54:55 Variances in Fan Adjustments 57:54 Screen size and power curves (profiles) 01:00:45 Custom profiling and DTR ranges 01:04:57 Station consistency 01:06:38 Batch size variance 01:09:35 Advice for future competitors 01:12:10 Closing thoughts: tasting the roasts 01:14:06 Outro