RE: CLOSED - Coffee Conversation: Event 68

I am an intense tastes girl, what can I say... hahaha....
The truth is that it is rare to find in the common commercial offers coffee that is lightly roasted. My country comes from a tradition of medium to intense roasted coffees and this may have a reason, or at least we can speculate from some historical information. Since the beginnings of the popularization of coffee houses in the 19th century, coffee was not so accessible to the common people, so the cheap coffee available was not so good and was roasted a lot to mask the lack of quality. Our guayoyo also adds a lot of water, it is a high yielding preparation.
With time the quality coffees spread and today we can find very good local coffee at good prices, but the tradition of the degree of roasting was preserved.
As I grew up in this education of taste, my favorite coffees are strong, of medium to intense roasting.
By the way, what a beautiful photo. The light from your lamp looks like a sugar cube swimming in your cup!

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mdosev last year

I know that when you come from a country with a huge coffee production it is hard to find lighter roasted coffee. When the coffee is average and below average, you should roast it darker to cover the flaws as you have said. Lighter coffee is more expensive and it is clear why. Mass producers prefer bigger crops at the cost of lower quality beans. Here in the supermarkets the coffee that can be found is medium to dark roasted too. We are lucky to live in a world where specialty coffee enters relatively fast, so I have no issues in finding a tasty, light I medium roasted coffee beans.

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