It’s a shame they don’t show the roast level for their beans. As someone who drinks their coffee with milk I need darker roasts, otherwise it doesn’t taste of anything.
Yeah, they’ve recently updated the packaging and it looks really good.
For speciality coffee, not including the roast is quite common. You’re supposed to get an idea based on the tasting notes. But I agree, would be so much easier if they just wrote it on the packet!!
Light roasts tend to have citrus, floral, tea-like flavours. e.g. Lemon, jasmine, berries etc
Medium roasts usually have flavours like caramel, chocolate, nuts, mild fruit
Dark roasts will have mentions of dark chocolate, burnt flavours, cocoa, tobacco etc
Also, bit of a generalisation, but lighter roasts are typically more likely to be from Africa, whereas dark roasts from South America.
Out of interest, what kind of water do you guys use in your coffee machines? London tap water is pretty bad for limescale buildup and not ideal for coffee making. I’ve heard that Evian etc also high in minerals and not ideal. Tesco own brand js apparently quite good. Curious as to what you use.
Currently I use tap water because it’s a bean to cup espresso machine which cost me £200 but produces excellent coffee. So if it breaks I can live with that.
I suppose this might change depending on the machine, I used to have an automatic bean to cup machine and that had to go back to have its filter changed even with cleaning. If I had that again I’d likely use bottled water.
Whereas this one manages fine, just have to keep on top of cleaning every so often.
I never ever had to use a filter when I lived in Birmingham, which has water as soft as water is getting. It’s gravity fed via the Elan Aquaduct direct from Wales.