Coffee's of the World - Brasillian Daterra Cedro Rosa Masterpiece Collection with me @c0ff33a ☕️
This coffee is quite special, Daterra is well known as a name of extreme quality, and this Cedro Rosa is from the Masterpieces collection so it is truly the best of the best.
No Hessian sacks for this lot of green coffee, it comes in a tidy box containing two 12.5kg vacuum sealed silver foil bags - the foil is a rock solid brick until you start to cut the top - then you get a long hiss and it all expands to reveal the delicious green coffee inside.
We can learn a little more about what to expect from this coffee directly on the Daterra website
Before we can taste it though, we need to roast it - starting with loading the green coffee beans into my coffee roaster.
Once inside the spinning drum keeps the busy beans moving so they do not get burnt on one side
The roast time I am aiming for is 13 minutes, as the coffee roasts it changes colour from green to a light cinnamon brown
As we near the 13 minutes the coffee turns a darker brown, and will start to crack - making popping noises inside the roaster a similar sound to making popcorn.
Once the coffee is at our desired darkness level - the longer you roast it the darker it gets - to black even "burnt" - to keep the colour you see in the drum you need to release the coffee from the hot dum and cool it quickly - the cooling tray of the roaster has a fan sucking air below - which it blows out of the roaster exhaust ducting to outside. A stirring arm keeps the cooling beans moving - together these two systems can take the 200 degrees Celsius beans down to ambient in a few minutes.
While it is cooling the next batch of coffee goes into the roaster - back to back I can do a good 6 roasts of 5kg each, then the chaff collector which holds the parchment outer layer of the coffee given off as it roasts gets too full - you can empty it on the fly but it is a messy job when the fan is going - so I try to do it when it is cool and everything is off.
Now it is roasted we get to do the best bit, try the roasted coffee and see what it tastes like.
A nice even roast, and just the right colour - not too dark so we can enjoy all the subtle flavours.
I measure the beans in the Aeropress to get the perfect amount for a cup to test, they look good don't they?
Pour the beans into the grinder, and then grind back into the Aeropress
Add hot but not boiling water, you have to stop 3/4 up the Aeropress because this fresh coffee blooms - the natural gasses it emits makes the grounds rise up and it would overspill the top if we fill it right up.
Quickly the has dissipates and the bloom deflates, so we can top up a little before adding the filter cap.
Upright on the cup, ready to take the plunge. And how is that for an artistic shot - brewing on the cooling tray amongst the beans of my final roast of the day - Peruvian this one - I roasted 21 kg during this roast session to be ground and packing in 205g bags for a client (100 bags total).
The brewed cup, it looks good a fine colour and great aroma (I know you can't smell it but it was good!)
And the taste, it's fantastic - could almost be a chocolate orange in a cup! Really very smooth with no Bitterness, a delicious coffee.
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You are were going to send me a sample right? Or a boat load :D Ohhh 3 freighters full even better :D
Oh of course! I always have plenty of coffee spare - despite my best efforts to drink it all! Thank you for calling in and leaving a lovely comment :-)
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Oh my, what an education I got! I do love coffee, and drink lots of it. I have all sorts of contraptions to make coffee, buy different kinds of coffee available in the market. I think that perhaps I should try roasting my own coffee beans now, LOL! I enjoyed this article very much,. Thanks for the photos and vid snippets you included. It made your article all the more interesting and engaging! Kudos to the effort you do to put out a quality article. Have a great evening, my friend. Take care.
Thank you very much, I actually sell a lot of green coffee beans to people who roast coffee at home. You can buy various small machines to automate the process - or even use a big pan or tray in the oven - although you have to keep the beans moving so that can be quite tricky! I’m pleased you liked my post, I try my best to make them a bit intersting - I’m not the most creative person.
So fascinating to see your business. And those beans look wonderful. Thanks for sharing @c0ff33a. And I do hope Sara is doing better !!
Thank you very much, it’s a growing aspect of my business to supply my own fresh coffee rather then buy it in from contract roasters - my customers certainly seem to be enjoying it. And she is, you will be see the normal amount of posts from her very soon.
its really cool to see the roasting process.. I like the transition photos from beans to grind to coffee in a cup.. makes me thirsty reading your post! :)
Thank you very much, I have become used now to people watching me roast because we have so many people come to see how the roasters work when they are looking to purchase one. Thanks for taking a look and leaving a lovely comment.
Cool, so I s practically a performance art for you now these days! :)
The real taste of coffee and being there to enjoy a cup of coffee is such an amazing experience :D thanks you so much for sharing this post :)
It's so interesting to read about different types of Coffees in depth. You have amazing knowledge on this.
This coffee may not suit my taste buds as I like the bitter ones more.
Today at the airport there were so many Coffee shops and you crossed my mind. I am sure you must be getting delighted every time you see anything about coffee, just as I do with Crystals :)
Thank you very much, I can do a dark bitter roast if you like - it’s just longer time in the drum. It is much harder to get a dark roast right though - the coffee changes very quickly the darker it get’s and you can go from dark, to jet black oily and burnt in seconds!
I hope you have a good trip away, coffee is as much an obsession for me as Crystals are to you!
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