Country Roads (signature blend) green beans

Smokin Beans

Details

Origin

Nicaragua

Process

Washed, Natural, Honey

Roast Suitability

Description

About the Blend Country Roads – For those whose hearts are in the beautiful country side the winding peaceful roads are a retreat, a place of beauty, a place that feels like home. This coffee is kind’ave like that, it has a warm comfortable refreshing feel to it with beans coming from Nicaragua and Africa. It is a light tasting coffee with nice milk chocolate tones from the Nicaraguan beans and a bright sweetness from African beans. This makes for a refreshing cup of complexity with vibrant citrus acidity, medium body, and light finish. Nuances of cherry limeade, milk chocolate, black tea, a little raspberry in the clean finish. This blend has a roast range from city to full city roast depending on personal taste preferences. Brew as drip, pour over, or espresso. Comfortable like Country Roads. 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