4 TYPES OF COFFEE ROASTS
CAFÉ PIRAGUAS Supreme Colombian Coffee
If you have ever felt overwhelmed in the supermarket or in a coffee store on the different kinds of coffee that they offer, you are not alone. Maybe in a coffee shop would be easier to choose, sometimes they can help you to take the best option for you. But if I want to know which one in Café Piraguas we prefer, here we have for you some types of coffee roasts, so next time you would choose for you own. Hopefully you’ll choose us and our Colombian Coffee.
The bean itself matters, coffee gets their features like the aroma and flavor from the coffee area and country, it’s farm and the roasting process. The length of the roasting process can affect in many ways the bean and the characteristics of the cup, including the body, acidity and flavor of your tasty coffee. To expand your knowledge, we have collected this guide to the four most common types of coffee roasts.
These four types of coffee roasts are light roast, medium roast, medium-dark roast and dark roast. Each one of these roasts has a unique aroma, colour, appearance and flavor.
Keep in mind that Café Piraguas uses a Medium Roast for their own coffee.
4 Types of Coffee Roast.
1. Light Coffee Roast
Light roasts are roasted for the minimum amount of time. Light roasted coffee beans most of the times reach their internal temperature at 180°C – 205°C, immediate after the first crack. These coffee beans tend to have their oils internally because they haven’t been exposed at a high temperature.
The longer the coffee is roasted the heat pulls out the caffeine and the acidity of the bean. This means light roasts have more caffeine and more acidity. The acidity in light roasts is characterized by a citrus or lemon to the taste.
2. Medium Coffee Roast - (CAFÉ PIRAGUAS CHOICE)
Medium Coffee Roasts most of the times reaches an internal temperature of 210°C – 220°C, this is after the first crack and before a second occurs. These beans have more body than a light roast, less caffeine and less acidity.
These roasts have a more balanced flavor. The acidity and body of a medium roast can be very balanced somewhere in the middle. Their oils still inside the bean and preserve a lot of their own characteristics.
Café Piraguas and Colombian Coffee in general uses this type of roast to enhance the uniqueness of the flavor and taste of their coffee, in more than 7 coffee areas this country have.
3 Medium-Dark Coffee Roast
Medium-Dark Coffee Roasted has an internal temperature of 225°C – 230°C, just after the second crack. This roast will also start showing the oils on the beans’ surface and start losing their own flavor notes and characteristics. These roasts have fuller roast flavor, more body and less acidity.
4. Dark Coffee Roast
Dark roast like the name is a very roasted bean, the roasting temperature is between 240°C – 250°C. There are visible oils om the dark roast beans. Typically you can’t taste any origin flavors in a dark roast, the effect of the roasting process hides the good, the bad and the regular coffee bean.
Dark roasts have the least amount of caffeine and acidity, because they are roasted the longest. It has a smoky flavor and a darker color.
