Use the descriptions below to familiarize yourself with coffee’s special features in order to better select the right beans for your needs.

Acidity is a sharp and pleasing tartness felt on the tips and edges of your tongue. The taste lingers longer on your tongue at low acidity levels.

Body is the sense of heaviness, richness, or thickness you feel in your mouth.

Flavor is what defines the taste of the coffee once its acidity, balance, and aroma have been established. The geographical growing location, soil conditions, milling process, and roasting process all contribute to

the flavor of the coffee bean.

Coffee Roasts

Here are some basic things you ned to know about coffee and roasts.

The coffee beans come to brother bear’s roastery in the raw form. The beans are hard, small and green. They are placed in a roaster where they are roasted. In the roaster the bean goes through a two-crack process. The first crack brings a city roast, which offers the most caffeine and the least bean flavor. The second crack is a full city roast. The full city roast gives the coffee drinker the true flavor of the bean. After that, the oils that are locked within the bean rise to the surface giving them a shiny oily appearance or a french roast. French roast has less caffeine and the taste of the roast is what really comes through. Right before they burn, the beans reach the italian roast. This roast offers the least caffeine and a strong dark roast taste.

To recap:

City- lightest roast, most caffeine, least bean flavor

Full city- medium roast, most bean flavor

French- dark roast, less caffeine, roast taste

Italian- darkest roast we do, least caffeine, strong dark taste