WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK ROAST COFFEE?
Why do different coffees have different roasts? Does this affect flavour? Will dark roast coffee have more caffeine, or will a lighter roast have more? What really is “strength” in the context of supermarket packaging? Let’s delve in and investigate. LIGHT, MEDIUM, MEDIUM-DARK AND DARK ROAST COFFEE At Balance Coffee , we generally roast from light, medium, medium-dark as we believe that the lighter roasted coffee tastes better as it retains the natural sweetness from the original raw bean. In essence, the darker you roast coffee beans, the more bitter the coffee becomes. There is no reason to say it’s a negative, if that’s what your taste buds desire then that is what you like. Moving on to supermarket coffee, this is more-or-less the same thing as “strength”. And it has less to do with strength in terms of the caffeine content but how much it has been roasted on a scale of light to dark. Generally speaking, you won’t find lightly roasted coffee in the supermarkets as the shelf...