I roast my own coffee. Once you have fresh roast you realize that all the coffee you have ever had is stale.
I roast enough for a week and by the sixth day I can tell the difference. My favorite beans are Kona Peaberry from a small family farm on the big Island, Kona Purple Mountain, expensive but worth it. From Africa I like Kennya AA, from Central America Costa Rican Tarrazo and Guatemalan, from South America Coulmbian Supremo, from Indonesia Sumatra Mandelheing. Jamaican Blue Mountain is good but priced like gold. There are hundreds of different coffee beans and all have different flavor profiles depending on the location they are grown in and the roast time. Dark roast is essentially burned coffee beans. I like most of my beans roasted to a lite city roast, the first crack, regular city roast is second crack, dark roast is burnt. Every type of bean will taste different depending on the roast.
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