Stop copying roast curves – start designing your own.
Sensory-proven methods to build your product range.
Lean workflow tools for home or pro roasters.
Product development strategies and tactics based on consumer choice
Exclusive course-specific live Q&A sessions with Morten Münchow.
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Mastering Coffee Roasting on the Aillio Bullet: From Technical Skills to CoffeePreneurship
Course Objective:
Enable students to confidently operate their Aillio Bullet roaster, build evidence-based roast profiles, conduct sensory-valid experiments, and strategically target authentic consumer segments, guided entirely by CoffeeMind’s competency framework and scientifically validated principles.
Module 1: Getting to Know Your Aillio Bullet Roaster
Introduction to the Aillio Bullet
Model comparison (V1, V1.5, V2)
Understanding machine components and their function
Setup and safety considerations
Hands-on Setup
First-time setup checklist
Roast management software (RoasTime) installation and setup
Initial burn-in roast and machine seasoning
Module 2: Achieving Control – Mastering Your Roaster Operation
Principles of Control
Understand the variables: Temperature, airflow, drum speed, and time
Roasting Step-by-Step
Preheating protocol and stability checks
Consistent coffee loading
Precise heat transfer management
Creating Your First Roast Profile
Data-driven roasting
Practical session: Creating a basic roast profile from scratch.
Roast documentation for repeatability
Module 3: Experimentation – Validating Your Roasting Decisions
Scientific Roasting Principles
CoffeeMind’s evidence-based research approach
Sensory science: Discriminative, Descriptive, Hedonic data
Running Purposeful Experiments on Your Bullet
Roast profile modulation experiments
Avoiding experimental pitfalls
Valid comparative tastings: triangle and descriptive cupping
Practical Experiment
Step-by-step airflow experiment
Analyzing sensory-proven results
Module 4: Evaluation – Trust Your Senses
Understanding Sensory Skills
Developing sensory calibration
Objective sensory perception
Practical Sensory Evaluation
Setting up sensory evaluation sessions
Sensory calibration exercises
Documenting sensory feedback
Module 5: Consumer Models – Build a Business Based on Your Journey
Your Journey Matters
Learn how your own struggles, aspirations, and breakthroughs define your most aligned customer segment.
From Roasting Epiphany to Customer Clarity
Step-by-step exercises to:
Map your personal journey (frustrations, breakthroughs, frameworks).
Define your “before” avatar – your ideal customer.
Translate your own transformation into a clear customer model.
Craft Your Marketing Message
Learn to formulate:
Your “One Thing” that defines your offer.
Your “Big Domino” that knocks down all objections.
Interactive Worksheets
Worksheet 1: Mapping Your Own Journey
Worksheet 2: Defining Your “Before” Avatar
Worksheet 3: Crafting Your Offer and Marketing Message
Module 6: Lean Production – Roasting Efficiently and Effectively
Maximizing Value and Minimizing Waste
Lean roasting principles
Batch size and inventory management
Operational Efficiency
Minimizing roasting waste
Roast software optimization
Module 7: CoffeePreneurship – Your Purpose and Your Market
Finding Your “Why”
Clarifying your roasting vision
Integrating roasting into business strategy
Aligning Vision with Customer Segments
Authentic consumer engagement
Targeting authentic customers strategically
Strategy Development Exercise
Developing actionable market strategies
Module 8: Bringing it All Together – Bullet Roaster Mastery Project
Integrative Project
Comprehensive roasting profile development
Documenting experimentation, evaluation, consumer segmentation, lean practices, and CoffeePreneurship insights