The source's visit to Madcap's Fulton Street operation describes three connected activities: sourcing coffee, evaluating samples and roasted batches, and recording production roasts. It discusses repeat producer relationships, a tasting area and the use of Cropster records alongside active roaster decisions. This is an archived tour account, not a BeanScene visit or confirmation of today's facility arrangement.
The useful lesson is how those activities serve different purposes. A sourcing relationship supplies context about a coffee; sample tasting helps decide what to buy; production tasting checks what the roastery has actually made. Roast software records information, but the presence of a graph alone does not establish cup quality or remove the need for skilled interpretation.
When reading a roaster profile, ask which details are dated observations and which are current verified information. Weekly production volumes, staffing, shop counts and dispatch schedules can change, so older figures should not be presented as live promises. This original research summary focuses on the workflow described by the source without reproducing its interview as a new conversation, auditing farmer payments or independently testing the coffees.
The conversation
A good question can make a better brew.