Description
Are you trying to find that smooth, rich, chocolaty, and herbal coffee to warm you up in the afternoon or maybe for your favorite after-dinner drinks that don’t keep you up all night? Look no further; this is the bean for you!
Hailing from producers across Peru, this coffee comes from a sustainable aggregate lot, leaving you with a perfect blend of Peruvian beans that brew a delightfully balanced decaf.
During the water process, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. The hydrated green coffee is then introduced to a unique solution of concentrated coffee solubles that draw out the caffeine while minimizing the loss of flavor compounds. Once the caffeine has been removed the green coffee is re-dried and re-bagged for transport, and the extract solution is filtered of its caffeine and recycled to be used again.
Tasting Notes:
With notes of malt and dark chocolate, cola, and citrus, this decaf Peru makes an excellent addition to the afternoon or a warm ending to the evening. Smooth and clean on the palate. Low in acidity and medium-bodied, floral tones up front bring life to the cup.
Roasting Notes:
Avoid light roasting with this bean—you may experience the taste of the decaffeination process than the bean itself. We prefer a full-city roast, giving the bean a nice chocolatey kick without burning out crisp, lighter tones. Works well from a city plus to French. Be careful not to take it too dark; it will get edgy in the darker roasting points.
stromchan (verified owner) –
Beautiful decaf. I get lemon, malt, and chocolate notes with my roasts.
My wife an I are small-time roasters that roast for a local farmer’s market. We use a Gene Cafe that we bought from Burman. After playing around, this is how we roast this coffee.
We roast 9 ounces at a time. I preheat the Gene to the first alarm, then let it shut down and run the cool cycle to 140. After we add the beans, we roast at full temp until first crack starts at 10.6 minutes. We then reduce the temperature to 420 and let it roast for 2.0 more minutes. After that, we let the cool cycle run.