Kaffelogic Nano 7e Home Coffee Roasting Starter Kit

When your kit arrives, resist the urge to overthink it. Load up the Kaffelogic, pick one of the pre-loaded roast profiles, and press go. Your first roast is about getting comfortable with the process, the smell, the sound, the colour changes, not perfecting anything.

Once you've got that first batch under your belt, here's where the fun starts.

Start with one coffee, try different roast levels
Take one of your four greens and roast it three ways, light, medium, and dark - using the pre-loaded profiles. Taste them side by side and see which you prefer. You'll quickly realise how dramatically roast level changes the character of the same bean. This single exercise will teach you more about roasting than hours of reading about it.

Then flip it; same roast level, different coffees
Once you've found a roast level you like, run the same profile across all four coffees in the kit. The African Moon, the Decaf Quetzal, the Andrea Costa, the Regional Huila - they'll all behave slightly differently and taste completely different in the cup. This is where you start to understand how origin and processing interact with roast level.

When you're ready, start tweaking
The Kaffelogic makes it easy to experiment beyond the pre-loaded profiles. Once you've built up a feel for roast outcomes, what a light roast looks and smells like versus a medium, how different coffees develop at different rates the free Kaffelogic desktop app lets you start adjusting temperature curves, airflow, and development time. You don't need to go there on day one, but it's there when you're ready.

The beauty of this machine is that there's no ceiling. Most home roasters find they're still discovering new things about it a year in.

We've chosen four coffees for this kit that between them cover the main origins, processing methods, and flavour profiles you'll encounter as you get deeper into home roasting. They're all from our Staples range meaning we stock them year-round and they all cup above 83 points. Here's what you need to know about each one.

Uganda, Natural
A naturally processed DRUGAR (Dried Ugandan Arabica) from the Rwenzori Mountains. Natural processing means the coffee cherry is dried whole, which produces a fuller-bodied, fruit-forward cup. Expect dark chocolate, brown sugar, pecan, cashew, and plum. It's a bold, sweet coffee that works brilliantly as an espresso but holds its own as a filter too. A great one to start with if you like your coffee with some depth and sweetness.

Colombia, Washed
Our highest-scoring coffee in the kit and a classic example of what good washed processing does. The cherry is removed before drying, which gives you a cleaner, more defined cup you'll taste hazelnut, caramel, panela, orange peel, and apple. Washed Colombians are a reliable reference point in the roasting world, so this is a good one to keep coming back to as your skills develop. If you want to understand how roast level affects a coffee's clarity, this is your coffee.

Brazil, Natural
From a family farm in Brazil's Mogiana region that's been in the same hands since the 1960s. Sun-dried on stone patios for 14 days, this Red Catuai lot has classic Brazilian character; walnut, cocoa, and a natural sweetness that makes it one of the most forgiving coffees to roast. If you're nervous about your first few batches, start here. It's consistent, reliable, and hard to make taste bad.

Mexico, Mountain Water Decaf
Grown in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and decaffeinated using the Mountain Water Process a chemical-free method that removes up to 99% of the caffeine while keeping the flavour intact. Bright orange and citrus notes with a brown sugar sweetness. We've included a decaf because it's genuinely worth knowing how to roast one they behave slightly differently to caffeinated greens and the results might surprise you. Perfect for evening roasting sessions too.

Which should I roast first?
If you want the most forgiving starting point, go with the Brazillian - it's consistent and hard to get wrong. If you want something that'll really show you what home roasting can do from the off, try the Ugandan. Either way, roast them all, that's the whole point.

The Boost Kit V2 is a hardware and software upgrade for the Kaffelogic Nano 7e that we've included in this kit from day one, because we think it's worth having right away rather than something you buy later when you wish you'd got it sooner.

Out of the box, the Kaffelogic Nano 7e roasts up to 120g per batch. With the Boost Kit V2 installed, that jumps to 200g, nearly double, and batch sizes become fully adjustable in 10g increments anywhere between 50g and 200g. That flexibility matters more than it might sound. Smaller batches are great for experimenting and testing new coffees without committing a larger quantity. Larger batches mean more coffee when you've found a profile you love and want to stock up.

What's actually in the box
The Boost Kit V2 includes two chamber extension rings - physical additions to the roasting chamber that allow the larger batch sizes to roast evenly and a software upgrade code that unlocks the Boost functionality in the free Kaffelogic Studio app. Installation is straightforward and doesn't require any tools.

How it works in practice
Once installed, you select your batch size directly from the roaster's startup menu. The Kaffelogic Studio software automatically adjusts airflow, temperature, and heating to match whatever size you've chosen, so you're not manually recalibrating anything, it handles it for you. When you're first getting started with larger batches, Kaffelogic recommend beginning at 150–160g to let the machine calibrate to your specific beans before pushing to the full 200g.

When should I start using it?
Honestly, whenever you feel ready. For your very first roasts, the standard profiles at 100–120g are the easiest way to get comfortable with the process. Once you've done a few batches and you're confident in what you're doing, start experimenting with larger sizes. You'll notice how batch size affects development and flavour — and that's when things start to get really interesting.