Types of Roasted Espresso Coffee Beans

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The perfect coffee can be produced by choosing the right espresso coffee beans in the beginning. It doesn’t mean that the beans become the most requirement of perfect espresso coffee. Many aspects affect the coffee such as brewing process, filtered water, coffee maker itself, even the cup for espresso or demitasse temperature affect the taste and aroma of espresso coffee.

Basically there are 2 main types of coffee beans. Arabica and Robusta. The Robusta beans contain more caffeine than the Arabica. That’s why the Robusta is preferred for used as high quality coffee because it produces more flavor and aroma.

There are four main roasting coffee beans type which are:

• Light roast or cinnamon – It has high caffeine and acidity, that’s why baristas don’t consider to use it.
• Medium roast – It has darker color than cinnamon and many major vendor use it because more profitable, even baristas don’t consider to this roasted beans type too.
• Dark roast or City roast – This type of roasted coffee has proceeded to reduce caffeine and acidity which makes this roasted type become standard for medium quality of espresso.
• French roast – It has oily texture and very dark brown color.
• Darkest roast or Italian roast – High recommended for high quality of espresso. It has deep brown color, less acidity, but sweeter.

The beans quality is a right start for high quality of coffee, but grinding process also take an important rule to get high quality of espresso. With perfect grinder and right grinding process you can get perfect coffee grounds for your espresso. The Burr conical grinder is the most recommended because it doesn’t make heat in grinding process, which can destroy the taste and flavor of coffee. It is better if you only grind amount of coffee beans as much as you need before you make your coffee to get optimal flavor and aroma. The roasted espresso coffee beans also better if you store in vacuum container to prevent oxidation between beans and air.

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