Why does coffee taste so different depending on roast?
The Bean's Many Voices
Why does coffee taste so different depending on roast?
You take a sip of light roast coffee — bright, fruity, almost like tea. Then you try a dark roast — bold, smoky, bittersweet like chocolate. Same bean. Completely different taste. What happened between the first cup and the second?
Inside every green coffee bean live hundreds of different flavor chemicals, locked away like secrets in a vault. Some taste like berries. Some taste like caramel or nuts. Others taste grassy or floral. They're all just sitting there, waiting.
