Roasting & measuring (3)
- Loring Smart Roast — The Santa Rosa, California maker of commercial coffee roasters whose patented single-burner design roasts the beans and burns off its own smoke in one flame — no afterburner, less gas, and the machine of choice for a large slice of light-roast specialty roasteries.
- Quantify CVA — An iOS and Android app for filling in SCA Coffee Value Assessment forms with several evaluators at once — one of the two digital CVA platforms the SCA named in July 2026.
- Refractometer — The little light-bending gadget that turns a cup of coffee into a number — how it works, what it can and can’t tell you, and how it became standard kit in specialty coffee.