Grand Parade Coffee3 Lbs Malawi Geisha Unroasted Green Coffee Beans, Premiun Single Origin Specialty Arabica, Fair Trade

I bought this with no great expectations however, as a novice coffee roaster, I was very pleased with the quality of this bean. It was uniform in color and size. almost peabberry size, it also has the most incredible berry aroma when I opened up the bag, I have never smelt any unroasted bean that smelled as good as this one. I roasted as a it should be light to medium roast to preserve the fruity aroma and flavors with a very pleasing light baker's chocolate finish. I have purchased unroasted and roasted geisha coffee from various boutique shops and you can't go wrong with this one. I am by no means an experienced coffee roaster, but this was much better than some of the pre roasted geisha coffees I have bought from boutique coffee roasters, so it was either dumb luck on my part or this coffee bean is that good, give it a try You can't go wrong for the price. I roasted this coffee on a fresh roast coffee roaster with chamber extension on low heat with only fan adjustments to control the roasting temperatureI hit first crack at approximately 8 and a 1/2 minutes.and when I got to Rolling crack I set the roaster to cool, which was about 9 minutes, try to keep the beans below 380° for as long as possible to help with flavor development because once the rolling crack happens, you don't want to continue with the roasting process for bean development, unless you plan on going to a medium plus roast. 4 minutes dry time, 4 and a 1/2 minutes bean development, Thirty seconds from first crack to rolling, crack and then shut down and cool.

It's somewhat difficult to provide a "rating" on something like a food product because taste preference vary so wildly. I like my coffee dark and bold, with strong flavors, so my 4/5 star review reflects that an is not necessarily indicative of the objective quality of the product itself. Quality-wise, the beans arrived in good shape, with very few beans that I have needed to remove from the roast.I roasted these beans to just a hair beyond Full City, maybe not quite Full City+. After curing, they aren't fully oily like Vienna or French Roast, but have speckles of oil appearing on the beans.The roasted beans are a little harder than I would have expected and take a little persuasion to grind up to a fine grind in a blade grinder. I would definitely recommend a burr grinder with these beans to get to the finer grinds.The aroma of the roasted beans was very nice. Grassy, hay-like subtleties, with not too much astringent char smells. Comparable aroma to Nicaraguan roasts of similar depth, and I expected a similar punchy flavor based on the aroma.In spite of the fairly robust aroma, the Full City roast brews up light and subtle. At hot temperatures, the expected boldness is almost non-existent, with a very bright and light mouthfeel. There is a slight richness, and the bitterness doesn't linger much at all, dissipating quickly. Chocolate and caramel notes are very light, with much more of the earthy grassiness shining through. As the cup cools, the rich flavors begin to bloom a little more, with the dark cocoa becoming much more evident over the straw-like flavors, and the stronger dark flavors begining to linger a little longer on the tongue.I believe that this coffee is a great palate cleanser with its subtle, brief flavors. I agree with the description that this is a varietal that is probably best at no more than a medium (City+) roast in order to not roast out the flavors that make a single-origin bean unique and definitive.UPDATE: After a longer curing period, more like 72-96 hours, the richer and darker flavors begin to really shine through. For whatever reason, this bean seemed to like a little more rest than some of the other cultivars.

Taste great

These bean did not roast well for me. It seemed they did not good to the first crack very well. The chaff on these beans stay on the beans. I will not get these green beans again.