Dialing-in. The first and arguably most important task in creating a delicious espresso, meeting your quality standards, and keeping your customers coming back for more. It takes nothing more than…

Tonny Gitonga has joined Cropster as East Africa Account Manager! Tonny will work alongside our partners and customers in the East African region with an effort to help Cropster in its mission to…

Cropster Predictive Roasting uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help roasters worldwide roast better coffee every day. Predictive Roasting includes Bean Curve prediction, First Crack prediction and…

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of roasting is controlling the bean-temperature Rate Of Rise just before and during first crack. Scott Rao - coffee consultant, trainer and author of the book "The…

If you roast coffee, you know that between batch protocol is an important component of consistency and many other parts of the roasting business. As part of our work to help roasters improve their…

We at Cropster were excited to host our recent USA/Brazil roaster exchange - a 3-day panel that contained invaluable information and insight into both the US coffee consuming market and the Brazilian…

This was the question that Joe Marrocco brought to Cropster last year. Joe has been in specialty coffee for several years in nearly every capacity imaginable and has long heard the concerns of people…