Roasting Peru Norte Organic Green Coffee Beans

The Peru Norte beans supplied as part of the sampler pack from Seven Bridges Cooperative are recommended on the label as being suited to medium to dark French roast. I roasted the beans using profile 4 in my iRoast-2.

The beans produced less than good crema which broke up quickly. The flavor of the espresso was strongly acidic, and when used as the base for an espresso drink with milk the flavor had no highlights to recommend it.

I'll leave this one to those who use filter-drip coffee-makers.

Seven Bridges Cooperative has the following comments on its website about the Peru Norte beans:

Certified organic, shade grown, and Fair Trade. This coffee is very high grown in northern Peru, where many of the the organic coffee growers have been certified organic for over 2 decades. Grown from heirloom arabica typica cultivars which require a heavy shade cover to thrive. This area is also home to many rare birds such as the critically endangered White-winged Guan and the Peruvian Plantcutter. Bird guano is used in the coffee plantation as organic fertilizer. A wonderful South American coffee: a soft acidity, a very smooth medium body, a pleasing sweetness, and finishing with a subtle smokey flavor. Well suited to medium and dark roasts.