La Esmeralda Reserve Geisha Coffee Beans, Panama 8 oz. (Full City Roast)

Geisha coffee is the most unique, expensive, and sought after natural coffee in the world. It is on a completely different level than other coffees. People use words like “floral”, “grapefruit” and “jasmine” when describing its flavors. In fact, Geisha is considered by many coffee professionals, connoisseurs and enthusiasts to be the most intense, complex, brilliant varietal ever discovered. Geisha gained its current acclaim from crops cultivated in Panama, although its roots can be traced back to the fertile slopes of Southwest Ethiopia. Geisha coffee plants are low yielding and only grow in certain areas of the world in tiny microclimates. The combination of low production and high demand due to its unique flavors have created this coffee to have true cult status. Medium Roast: Highly recommended for Espresso. Can be used for traditional brewed coffee also, but flavors will be more mild than with the full city roast. Full City Roast: Highly recommended for traditional brewed coffee. Can be used for Espresso also, but flavors will be more bitter than with the medium roast. Geisha is a difficult bean to roast. The bean is oval and the seam of the bean is more open than other varietals, which allows more heat to enter the bean. However, the flavors of Geisha are delicate and roasting the beans for too long or getting them too hot will destroy the floral nature of the bean’s flavor. There is a delicate balance between getting enough heat to bring out the bean’s flavors and not burning it. To roast the bean perfectly, we use a variable temperature roasting process. We call this our IdealRoast Technology. This process is completely proprietary and has taken us over a year to develop. It takes much longer to roast the beans than traditional methods and we can only roast small batches at a time. All of our coffees are roasted at the time of purchase to guarantee maximum freshness and vibrance of flavor. 8 oz. weight is measured before roasting.

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