Sample roaster for testing coffee blends
Ideal for coffee innovators, this bench-top roaster enables precise control over the roasting profile, allowing for the development of unique coffee blends with its high-precision, fully automatic operation that captures detailed process data.

Roasts and Cools Coffee in Small Batches
The Sample Roaster from PROBAT SE is a robust, fully automatic drum roaster tailored for specialty coffee development and research applications. Utilizing thermocouples, it precisely measures product and exhaust air temperatures to maintain consistent roasting profiles. The roaster features a web-based control solution enabling seamless integration into your network with customizable dashboards for real-time data monitoring and management. With a batch capacity of 150-200 grams, it excels in small-scale testing, allowing you to efficiently explore and refine coffee blends for espresso, cold brew, and more. Its energy-efficient design incorporates simultaneous roasting and cooling to reduce cycle times, enhancing productivity in the R&D and laboratory settings. Constructed for long-term durability, the Sample Roaster is an essential tool for coffee producers dedicated to quality and innovation.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent and reproducible roast profiles with precise temperature monitoring.
- Enhances coffee quality assessment and recipe development with flexible batch sizes.
- Reduces energy use with optimized roasting and cooling processes.
- Simplifies data management and process monitoring with web-based control integration.
- Facilitates rapid adaptation to various coffee types and blends for product innovation.
- Applications
- Green coffee, Coffee blends, Coffee
- End products
- Cold brew coffee blends, Espresso roast coffee, Specialty coffee blends, Filter coffee blends, Single-origin roasted coffee, French press coffee blends, Pour-over coffee selections
- Steps before
- Green Coffee Grading, Recipe Development, Blend Creation
- Steps after
- Cooling, Data Documentation, Monitoring and Control
- Input ingredients
- green coffee beans
- Output ingredients
- roasted coffee beans
- Market info
- Probat is renowned for its expertise in manufacturing coffee processing equipment, particularly coffee roasters. The company has a strong reputation for engineering solutions in industrial coffee roasting, blending, and grinding technology.
- Roasting time
- 3 - 20 min
- Batch size
- 150 - 200 g
- Heating
- Electrical
- Roaster dimension
- 655 x 250 x 586 mm
- Thermocouples
- Product and exhaust air temperature
- Automation
- Full automatic control solution
- Working mechanism
- Drum Roasting
- Automation level
- Fully Automatic
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized thermal insulation
- Thermal control
- Thermocouples for temperature monitoring
- Roasting process monitoring
- Web-based software with customizable dashboard
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine Footprint
- 655 x 250 x 586 mm
- Control Panel Type
- LCD with customizable dashboard
- Control panel type
- LCD with customizable dashboard
- Integration possibilities
- Network connection for control via third device
- Recipe management
- Automatic reproduction of user-defined settings
- Language and color customization
- Customizable parameters on dashboard
- Display arrangement
- Individual data arrangement on screen
- Thermocouples inclusion
- Standard inclusion for temperature documentation