Jamin Haddox, the Quality Control guy at Cafe Imports gives a good explanation of Specialty Grade Coffee in this short video.
We only buy Specialty Grade coffee and to help to ensure we are getting the very best of the Specialty Grade coffee we only buy from Cafe Imports. I am trying to add videos to all of the green coffee bean listings and I may start adding video to the Fresh Roasted listings after I get most of the green coffee bean listings done.
For anyone thinking of starting to roast their own coffee at home or if you are a veteran of Home Coffee Roasting, the new video clips will help you get the coffee roasted to how it should be. At least to the roast levels that I recomend. Here is the new listing for 10 lbs of Sulawesi Torojaland.
Earthy, strawberry, juicy, cherry, nutty, heavy body, sweet.
About this Coffee:
I have been wanting to add this coffee for a few years now, and I had to now because of our Importer running out of Sumatra coffee. The text below is from the Cafe Imports Origin page about Sulawesi.
Sulawesian coffee is typical Indonesian, low acidity with full-bodied earthiness. This semi-washed to washed coffee is very similar to Sumatran coffee in cup profile.
The Dutch colonists called the island of Sulawesi Celebes, and you will still sometimes see people refer to the coffee or the island as Celebes.
If you like Sumatrans, consider giving Sulawesi a try as an origin.
Here is a simple way to remember why fresh roasted coffee tastes so different than the 3 to 6 month old coffee you buy at the grocery store.
I may go into it a little deeper later, but this is really the basics of what you need to know.
De Gassing:
Fresh roasted coffee needs to rest and degass for a minimum of 12 hours before being ground for brewing, but to be at it’s best it needs to rest for up to 3 or 5 days for some coffees! Here is a simple guideline.
Fresh Roasted is best after 3 to 5 days of roasting. A day or 2 either side of that will have a noticeable taste difference. From the best tasting day it will maintain this level for about a week, then the degradation starts to go faster. I feel that 2 weeks after roasting is still considered fresh and fine for drinking, but after 30 days it’s not up to my standards. You may still like it, but you were probably drinking it each day and your tastes just adjusted with the aging process.
This is why we only recomend you order 2 weeks of coffee at a time. If you are ordering 2 months worth of coffee, you are getting used to the 2 month old coffee, when the newly fresh roasted coffee arrives the day after roasting, it will not taste the same as what you have been drinking for the past two months. It may seem to not have much taste at all, but if you wait a few days the frash roasted coffee is at it’s best!
