Gold Dust (signature blend) green beans

Smokin Beans

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Washed, Natural, Honey

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Description

About the Blend Gold Dust – bright gold glittering in the sunshine reflecting warm golden rays of a valuable treasure. Our Gold Dust blend stands out like a chest loaded with golden treasure. Crafted from bright African beans specifically for lightest Blonde Roast style to be perfectly light golden colored beans with full balanced sweet light roast taste. The beans natural qualities nicely develop even at the lightest roast stage making a golden cup of goodness with nuance of graham cracker, tangerine, and hot oolong tea. Acidity is bright and lively, body is smooth and sweet, the finish is juicy, somewhat dry with a lingering nuance of tea and red grapes. Gold Dust makes an excellent breakfast coffee, crafted for the lightest roast lover at a Blonde Roast style. About the Roasting Process Maybe you have heard that roasting coffee is a work of art and to achieve excellent beautiful taste development in coffee beans it requires skillful and calculated inputs by the roast master throughout the entire roasting process? Is this true or not… Let’s look at this topic a little deeper. Some would argue that roasting coffee is easier than all that and you don’t need to worry about all those “technical aspects” to enjoy roasting your own coffee at home. In the most basic sense, you simply need to heat the beans to about 450*F or until they reach the desired “doneness” or “brown” and then cool them as quickly as possible with a fan to stop the internal roasting changes happening inside the beans. After this the coffee beans can be ground and used to brew coffee. It is as easy as that! However, as you delve a little deeper into roasting your own beans you soon realize that there does seem to be a certain science or a required sequence of events behind the roasting process that must be met to achieve the best taste in the cup. You will learn that when the cup tastes grassy or underdeveloped that you must add more time and/or temperature to your roasting profile. You will also