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I went to the store to buy coffee and it's all medium roast. Maybe one or two items of dark or light roast and no whole bean.
How did medium roast get chosen?
How did medium roast get chosen?
Reminds me of how salsa and anything of that nature is always mild or medium. Why is it so hard to get hot?
medium roast exposes more of the flavors in the coffee, and the lighter the roast, the less caffeine gets burned out of it. So more flavor, and more caffeine.
Darker roasts actually sit better on shelves, because there is less of the coffee bean left to go bad and get rancid.
medium roast exposes more of the flavors in the coffee, and the lighter the roast, the less caffeine gets burned out of it. So more flavor, and more caffeine.
Darker roasts actually sit better on shelves, because there is less of the coffee bean left to go bad and get rancid.
I went to the store to buy coffee and it's all medium roast. Maybe one or two items of dark or light roast and no whole bean.
How did medium roast get chosen?
Reminds me of how salsa and anything of that nature is always mild or medium. Why is it so hard to get hot?
I don't understand how people even need the mild or medium salsas. It must be weird for the "hot" salsa to be too much. I'm not exactly some spice fiend either. I usually don't venture much past habaneros (though I grew some ghost peppers this summer... i'm not the type to eat them or hotter peppers whole though).
I think darker roasts were the 'preferred' roast for a long time. Starbucks has always been a heavy roaster, and I think for large scale roasting - the darker the roast the more consistent/repetitive your flavour profile. If you're at the store and seeing smaller more local roasters, at least in my experience, they tend to lean towards medium roasts for the reasons stated above. You get a lot more complexity of flavour in medium roasts. Of course the way roasts are described (mild, medium, dark) really doesn't lend itself to understanding what the resulted coffee will actually taste like.
Yes, I came out of lurking to respond to coffee posts.
I used tobe a moronprefer dark roast but since i've actually started enjoying coffe i've moved to light roast. Much more flavour and creaminess.
Also, go to a real roaster if you want to buy decent coffee.
Where do you recommend?
Because people who like HOT make their own. Like myself. We leave the mild and medium to the wimps.Reminds me of how salsa and anything of that nature is always mild or medium. Why is it so hard to get hot?
Where do you recommend?
How did roasted coffee beans get chosen in the first place?
Just go to any locally owned coffee shop, if it is any good they will roast there own coffee. Otherwise, every grocery store in my area has a large selection of whole bean coffee with a grinder. It is decent.
If none of those works then do this (eventually this could be the best option):
Go to sweetmarias.com and buy green beans, then go to amazon and buy a hot air popcorn popper (or you could buy a real roaster). Put beans in popper and turn it on. Experiment with the roast.