ROASTING EQUIPMENT
Bellwether Coffee
Making sustainable roasting more accessible
The Bellwether Coffee Series 2 was unveiled in February 2022.
THE REFINED BELLWETHER COFFEE SERIES 2 EMISSION-FREE ROASTER REPRESENTS THE NEXT STEP IN THE MANUFACTURER’S JOURNEY TO MAKING COFFEE ROASTING MORE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE.
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ince launching in 2018, Bellwether Coffee has installed hundreds of its all electric, zero emissions coffee roasters across the United States and Canada, won the Specialty Coffee Association’s Best New Product Award, created new, industry leading standards for farmer pay equity and saved more than three million pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere. Bellwether Coffee’s intuitive, automated roasting system and Digital Roast Profiles, made by the company’s collective of master roasters, allow any business to source and roast coffee at the touch of a button. Now, the roaster manufacturer says it’s ready to release the newest version of its roaster. The Series 2, set to launch in February, has all the accessible features and artisan touches of the original with 50 per cent more roasting capacity per hour, more intuitive software, drastically enhanced efficiency for even greater sustainability, and a more durable, low maintenance design. “The Series 2 is a simply superior piece of hardware” says Arno Holschuh, Chief Coffee Officer for Bellwether, who says that even from the beginning, Bellwether set out to break the mould.
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Holschuh believes that the advancements made by the Series 2, built on the legacy of the company’s earlier models, showcase important innovations in roasting technology that don’t just remake but completely redefine how a roaster can work. “When we made the Bellwether, it was a blank-slate design process, focused on quality. We had the freedom to explore ways of achieving quality that you just do not have when you are trying to adapt existing technology,” he says. “We started by trying to design a roaster that would work well in cafés and very quickly
