Golden Espresso (signature blend) green beans

Smokin Beans

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Washed, Natural, Honey

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Description

About the Blend This is the espresso that wins the gold in terms of smooth mellow chocolaty coffee taste in the cup. We roast this blend slowly to fully caramelize the sugars and to bring out all the natural mellow goodness with the perfect coffee taste that will accent, but not overpower, your favorite espresso drink creations. The golden nature of this blend is best summed up as mellow and smooth, it is well balanced with a satisfying depth of character that blends well with flavoring syrups. The caramelly milk chocolate notes have a certain depth of pleasant earthiness, finishing with a nuance of toasted nuts and cocoa nibs. Overall low acidity just like you want in a good espresso. Like a gold mine this treasure is best at full city roast. 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 learn that sour note