House Special (signature blend) beans

Smokin Beans

Details

Origin

Colombia

Process

Washed, Natural, Honey

Description

About the Blend Looking for just a good everyday drinker coffee? Here it is – House Special. Built on a base of our premium Colombia beans for easy approach-ability and for that wonderful inviting Colombian aroma! Our roast masters have crafted this blend primarily from Latin American beans with just a splash of Indonesia to round out cup qualities. Like a well toasted s’more the cup is well balanced with good milk chocolaty nuance as the primary feature along with nuance of black tea, and dark toasted marshmallow. The medium sweetness is perfect for black coffee lovers but also lends itself really well to cream and sugar additives. Makes a good cup on a regular drip brewer but can also perform on AeroPress or French Press if you like it strong. 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 no