Ideally , the procedure would be to receive the coffee , roast a number of samples along a general progression of development , pick what ' s best of that lot and tweak that roast profile to modulate it to our liking . In reality , my employer is in that awkward stage of business where it suddenly has 20 employees , but has gotten there with a lot of improvisation and cobblingtogether of systemssolutions . Right now , our head roaster follows our profile from the previous lot , we cup it , and then give it a passfail or decide to tweak from there to fit our packaging descriptors . I ' ve only been with this company for about 6 months so far , but tightening up procedures there is my number one goal . I do some home roasting as well to satisfy the itches that roasting at work doesn ' t scratch . What ' s your setup ? Do you have the ability to log your bean temps ? Edit grammar