Ethiopia Natural Harrar Green Coffee Beans Roasting Test

May I start out with "Yum!" These are really delicious beans, great for roasting as a "city roast" and making delicious espresso-based coffee drinks.

The beans are organic green coffee beans supplied by Seven Bridges Cooperative. The label recommends the beans for Vienna to Espresso roasting. I roasted the beans in two separate batches using the following customized profiles saved on my iRoast-2 home roaster:

Custom Roasting Profile #3
385F for 7 minutes
430F for 2 minutes
465 F for 2 minutes

Custom Roasting Profile #4
385F at 6 minutes
430F for 3.5 minutes
465F for 2 minutes

Obviously the second profile will result in a darker roast. I preferred the light roast, however (#3), although both were very satisfactory.

The coffee was superb on all counts: excellent crema and fantastic well-balanced flavor. The espresso was slightly bitter and acidic and very pleasant to drink. The flavor combined well with milk in a flat-white making for one of my favorites supplied in the sampler pack.

I have only one bag left in the sampler pack so I am getting ready to order larger bags of my favorite beans that I have identified over the course of this roasting coffee beans at home series. In taking a sneak peak for these beans at Seven Bridges storefront at Amazon.com, however, I found that they weren't currently offering these beans. Boo hoo! I also noticed that the sampler pack I have been working with noted only 2 left in stock!

Anyhow, keep a look out for these magnificent beans. Let's hope they show up again.