Roasting Green Timor Maubesse Coffee Beans
Roasting the green Timor Maubesse coffee beans that came in the Seven Bridges Cooperative sampler pack was a learning experience.
If you've been reading these posts about roasting green coffee beans at home using an i-Roaster 2, then you will know that I started out with Seattle's Vivace Roasteria's "Dolce" blend beans. The Timor Maubesse beans are a lot smaller than the beans in the Dolce blend. Actually, they are sort of tiny.
In the first roast I actually blended 50/50 Dolce and Timor Maubesse beans and roasted at 385F for 7mins, 430F for 3.5mins, and 465F for 2.5 minutes.
It turned out to be one of my favorite blends ever! So sweet tasting! Good crema production too.
The second roast I used just the Timor Maubesse beans and set out to use the same roast profile. Luckily I kept an eye on things as by time it was at the end of 1.5 minutes for the final step the beans were pretty dark, so I stopped the roaster. (By the way, to interrupt a roasting profile and start the cool cycle, just press the "Roast" button").
The outcome was definitely a "dark roast". The flavor of the beans on their own wasn't as pleasant as when blended with the "Dolce" beans. And crema production was only average to poor. Unfortunately there weren't any more beans for me to test whether this less-than agreeable outcome was due to over-roasting the beans or not.
So on to the next bean variety. These are Brazil Poco Fundo, fair trade certified, and USDA certified organic green beans. Once again the beans are on the smaller size so in the roast I just finished, but haven't yet tried, I used the following profile which I have saved as roasting profile 3 on my i-Roaster:
If you've been reading these posts about roasting green coffee beans at home using an i-Roaster 2, then you will know that I started out with Seattle's Vivace Roasteria's "Dolce" blend beans. The Timor Maubesse beans are a lot smaller than the beans in the Dolce blend. Actually, they are sort of tiny.
In the first roast I actually blended 50/50 Dolce and Timor Maubesse beans and roasted at 385F for 7mins, 430F for 3.5mins, and 465F for 2.5 minutes.
It turned out to be one of my favorite blends ever! So sweet tasting! Good crema production too.
The second roast I used just the Timor Maubesse beans and set out to use the same roast profile. Luckily I kept an eye on things as by time it was at the end of 1.5 minutes for the final step the beans were pretty dark, so I stopped the roaster. (By the way, to interrupt a roasting profile and start the cool cycle, just press the "Roast" button").
The outcome was definitely a "dark roast". The flavor of the beans on their own wasn't as pleasant as when blended with the "Dolce" beans. And crema production was only average to poor. Unfortunately there weren't any more beans for me to test whether this less-than agreeable outcome was due to over-roasting the beans or not.
So on to the next bean variety. These are Brazil Poco Fundo, fair trade certified, and USDA certified organic green beans. Once again the beans are on the smaller size so in the roast I just finished, but haven't yet tried, I used the following profile which I have saved as roasting profile 3 on my i-Roaster:
- 385F for 7 minutes
- 430F for 2 minutes
- 465 F for 2 minutes
The roast turned out at a mid-brown color. The label on the package states the beans are recommended for medium to full city roasts. I'll let you know what the flavor is like and what the crema production is like soon. Oh, and as I put them in my Bean Vac I took a whiff of course, and noticed that the aroma had a distinct tobacco overtone!
Get a sampler pack of organic fair-trade green coffee beans from Seven Bridges Cooperative
Get your own i-Roast 2 from Amazon.com
Labels: brazil poco fundo coffee beans, green coffee bean roasting profile, green coffee beans, iroast-2, roasting coffee beans at home
posted by JohnC @ 1/17/2008 05:02:00 PM
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