Are Natural Coffee Beans Easier to Roast? The Complete Light Roasting Process for Natural Sidamo Coffee Beans

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The Art of Coffee Roasting

Roasting is the source of coffee flavor. The process of fire-roasting green beans is called roasting. Unroasted green beans cannot be consumed for drinking. After roasting, coffee beans determine 80% of the coffee's taste. The roasting process is tricky - if the fire is too strong, the exterior will be cooked while the interior remains raw; if the fire is too weak, the interior will be overcooked while the exterior is properly done. The key is to control the heat properly to ensure coffee beans are roasted evenly inside and out.

FrontStreet Coffee's Roasting Philosophy

FrontStreet Coffee specializes in roasting coffee beans, hoping to share roasting experience with coffee fans and enjoy the fun of roasting together.

Green Bean Information

Green beans: Ethiopia Sidamo Guji Shakisso Natural Process coffee beans

These beans exhibit characteristics of African coffee - small and uniform in size with thin bean flesh. They have few defective beans and appear light green with a yellowish tint, with low moisture content.

Roasting quantity: 550g

Roasting Review

1. Room temperature: 30°C
2. Initial heat: 50°C, bean entry temperature: 190°C, damper at 4
3. At 1'50", temperature return point: 100°C, heat control at 130°C, valve closed to 3
4. At 3'25", beans show light yellow color, roasted grain aroma appears
5. At 4', roasting temperature 124.3°C
6. At 5', beans fully covered with wrinkles, roasting temperature 137.6°C, damper adjusted to 4
7. At 6', roasting temperature 148.7°C
8. At 7', roasting temperature 158.9°C
9. At 8', roasting temperature 168.7°C, damper adjusted to 5
10. At around 9'42", first crack, roasting temperature 183.7°C
11. At 11'20", beans dropped, temperature 196°C, removed from roaster, roasting stopped

Roasting Weight Loss: 12.5%

Roast Level: City (Light Roast)

Roaster Parameters: Taiwan Feima Coffee Bean Roaster 801N/1kg semi-hot air/semi-direct fire coffee roasting machine

Cupping Notes

Using Fujiroyal Fuji Electric Grinder R-220 with ghost teeth, grind setting at 2.5 (with 10 being the coarsest on the machine scale).

Dose: 8g

Extraction water temperature: 94°C

Extraction volume: 100cc

Natural Process Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's freshly roasted single-origin natural process coffee beans - such as Natural Yirgacheffe and Natural Sidamo - offer full guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer extremely high value for money. A half-pound (227g) bag costs only around 70-90 yuan. Calculating based on 200ml per cup with a 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio, one package can make 15 cups of specialty coffee, with each cup costing only 5-6 yuan. Compared to café prices that often run dozens of yuan per cup, this represents exceptional value.

Important Notice :

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