RogersEstateCoffees

The following general rules apply to all coffee brewing methods. To get the best tasting drink, you should start with a ratio of two tablespoons of ground coffee per 6 ounces of water and adjust to your taste. Use the best possible water available. Tap water should be free of any strange flavors, odors...
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Fact 1: Coffee “shrinks”, – loses weight – during roasting, while swelling to twice the bean size. Fact 2: The longer you roast coffee beans, the darker the colour and the higher the “shrinkage”, e.g…, the more coffee it takes to make a pound. Fact 3: Our normal shrink is 20%; our dark roast...
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We roast a little darker than most do, because we feel that our standard level of roasting (called “Full City”), achieves the optimum level of flavour. At this level of roast, the bean has puffed to its fullest, and the seam along the side of the bean has “cracked” open. When you roast darker,...
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