This is a Pre-Release Early Access Offer — Get 50% Off Until July 31st!
This e-learning course is actively under development and you’re invited to join early at a substantial discount. Many of the key lessons are already available — including hands-on videos of the Standard Roast on both the Bullet R1 and the R2 Pro — and new content will continue to be added through July and early August.
By enrolling now, you’ll get immediate access to practical modules as they go live, and your feedback during the process is welcome. This pre-release access is ideal for early adopters eager to gain roasting confidence now and follow the full curriculum as it’s finalized.
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 (R1 vs R2 Pro)
- 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.
- Step-by-step exercises to:
- Craft Your Marketing Message
- Learn to formulate:
- Your “One Thing” that defines your offer.
- Your “Big Domino” that knocks down all objections.
- Learn to formulate:
- 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
- Final Evaluation
- Individualized feedback from CoffeeMind team