How to roast coffee beans and what is the best roasting degree?

Baking is generally divided into Light Baking, Medium Baking, City Baking and Deep Baking. Light Roast Coffee Beans: May have a strong aroma, crispness, high acidity as the dominant flavor and slight body. Medium-roasted coffee beans: have a strong alcohol, but also retain a certain acidity. City-roasted coffee beans: dark brown color on the surface, acidity replaced by a slightly burnt bitterness, flavor mostly destroyed. Deep Roast Coffee Beans: Dark brown in color, oily on the surface. For most coffee beans, alcohol is significantly increased and acidity is reduced. Roasted coffee is actually a way of processing food. Professional coffee roasting is a personal expression of the roaster. Just getting started with specialty coffee

Coffee beans of different roasting degrees

Coffee beans of different roasting degrees

(SPCIAITYCOFFEE) The biggest trouble is the name of the baking degree. For example, CITY, FULLCITY, FRENCH, ESPRESSO, etc. are all different because of the different baking machines used and the different production areas, and produce different baking degrees of color. In addition, some roast degrees are named after blends: ESPRESSO, for example, is a blend of coffees with a specific roast degree used to make ESPRESSO, which may have completely different flavors even if the color looks the same. So the choice of bean type, baking temperature and baking method, the length of baking time are the main factors to determine the final flavor.

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Professional coffee roasting is usually divided into the following eight stages.

1. Light Roast:

Degree of baking; very light baking, aka light baking.

The lightest degree of roasting of all stages, the beans have a light cinnamon color on the surface, and their taste and aroma are insufficient to make them almost inedible. It is usually used for testing and rarely used for tasting.

2. CINNAMON Roast:

Degree of roasting; light roasting, aka cinnamon roasting.

General roasting degree, cinnamon color on the appearance, odor green flavor has been removed, aroma is acceptable, strong acidity, for American coffee often used a degree of roasting.

3. Medium Roast:

Degree of roasting; medium roasting, also known as slightly medium roasting.

Medium and light roasts belong to the American style. In addition to sourness, bitterness also appears, and the taste is good. Aroma, acidity, alcohol moderate, often used for mixed coffee roasting.

4, medium baking (HIGHRoast):

Degree of roasting; medium, slightly dark roasting, also known as solid roasting.

It belongs to medium and slightly dark baking, slightly stronger than medium baking, with a little dark brown on the surface and a stronger bitter taste. Coffee tastes sour and bitter, aroma and flavor are good, most often loved by Japanese and Central European people. Blue Mountain Coffee

5. Medium-deep baking (CITYRoast):

Degree of baking; medium deep baking, aka urban baking.

The most standard roast, bitter and sour to achieve a balance, often used in French coffee. (Brazil, Colombia)

6. Deep baking (FULL-CITYRoast):

Degree of baking; micro-deep baking, aka deep city baking.

The medium and deep roasting degree is slightly stronger, the color becomes quite dark, and the bitter taste is stronger. It belongs to the Central and South American roasting method, which is very suitable for brewing all kinds of iced coffee.

7. French Roast:

Degree of baking; deep baking, also known as French baking.

Also known as French or European roast, belongs to deep roast, color is dark tea color, sour has not felt, especially in Europe to France the most popular, because fat has penetrated to the surface, with a unique aroma, very suitable for coffee Oulei, Vienna coffee.

8. Extremely Deep Bake (ItalianRoast):

Degree of roasting; very deep roasting, also known as Italian roasting.

Also known as Italian roast, roast degree before carbonization, burnt taste, mainly popular in Latin countries, suitable for fast coffee and cappuccino. Most of them are used in espresso coffee.

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baking depth table

Baking depth Appearance Baking stage (different baking machines because of the temperature control point position is different, the following temperature data is only for reference)

Very Light Baked Light