Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Drink a Cup of Micro Roasted Coffee

Have you heard about micro roasting? It's been said that micro roasted coffee might be some of the world's best coffee. The way in which these beans have been roasted is that the correct temperature has been applied during the right amount of time in order to bring out the coffee bean's exotic flavors.

Historically some roasters have treated the beans to simulate a variety of flavors such as hazelnut or vanilla. Drink a cup of micro roasted coffee and you'll realize that it's a very complex flavor. Instead of simply getting a caffeine kick, you're able to enjoy a wonderful flavor. Once you taste a micro roasted cup and the ordinary cup, you will be able to tell the difference as you re-taste that regular coffee. You won't ever go back to that store stuff.

What Sets It Apart
Time met technology and time moved forward evolving big coffee factories utilizing machines, which roast and package huge batches of beans for societal consumption. This kind of mass produced coffee is easy to make and it's cheap. Having tasted a cup of micro brewed coffee, you see the reason for the difference in price. The micro roasted beans are roasted with a close control by a roast master. Relying on their five senses, a highly skilled artisans micro roasts the best coffee.

When a batch of beans gains the perfect degree of roasting. It is checked by taste and judged as a fine wine. The brew master checks the roast by color, smell, and taste. When it comes to micro brewing the connoisseur is the human element in the making of the best coffee on earth. It beats the machine made stuff hands down.

The coffee roasting machine produces roasted beans for the mass market. Micro roasted coffee is produced in a roasting drum that turns continuously ensuring that all the beans are roasted evenly. In the micro roasting process, cooling utilizes air rather than water. This is different than in conventional coffee production. Water in the cooling process will alter the taste and add weight to the beans. The added weight translates into a greater cost for you the customer. It means you're paying for less. Micro roasted coffee benefits you the customer in its attention to detail.

Bear in mind that not all beans require the same amount of roasting. Micro roasting allows the roast master to assure that each batch is roasted proper. Roasting only small batches of beans. Quality of each roast will be maintained. Once you've tasted coffee roasted in micro batches, you won't be able to go back to your regular beans. Another way of stating this is why would you want to give up something this good?

By Cliff Eppalton

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