Table 1. Details on the four coffees (Coffea arabica) that were ground in this experiment: two African and two South American.
Farm/Estate | Origin | Variety | Roaster | Roast | Agtron colour |
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Las Ilusiones (W) | Guatemala | Caturra and Bourbon | Round Hill | Espresso | 62 |
Santa Petrona (W) | El Salvador | Pacamara | Has Bean | Espresso | 59 |
Burka (W) | Tanzania | Red Bourbon | Has Bean | Espresso | 59 |
Sasaba (N) | Ethiopia | Mixed Heirloom | James Gourmet | Filter | 68 |
(W) and (N) indicate washed and natural processing methods, respectively. ‘Roast’ is used as an indication for whether the coffee was roasted for filter (lighter) or espresso (darker) style coffee, and can be quantified by the ‘Agtron colour’ as determined by the Agtron spectrophotometeric measurement46. All coffees examined here would be considered light/medium roasted relative to typical commodity grade coffee.