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Todd
July 17, 2022
Cupping flavors: Clearly defined Chocolate with very faint berry in the finish. Strong and well developed body with a full mouth-feel.
Statistics: Roast level City+, Moisture loss 13.66 percent, Development 23.1%
Green Been description: Lots of variability in size, with a surprising amount of peaberries mixed in. This has the greatest variation in size/type of any previously purchased from CBC. This is a higher altitude bean, so an agressive roast cycle was tolerated well by the beans.
Roasting challenges: The varability in bean size meant there was a potential for variation in final roast level.
Roaster Gene Cafe CBR101 2016 model.
Roast description: (uniquely for Gene Cafe CBR 101 models).
*Preheat the empty drum to 402 F (206 C) for 5 minutes.
*Rapidly stop and remove the drum. Quickly fill with the green beans. Re-insert the drum, start the roast at 402 F, start kitchen timer.
*At 5 minutes on the timer, raise the temperature to 473 F (245 C). *Continue at this temperature until the first pops of First crack PLUS 30 seconds.
*On this roast, first crack began at 10 minutes 00 seconds, temperature was lowered at 10 minutes and 30 seconds to 437 F (225 C).
*Continue to roast at 437 until roast is complete.
*The goal on this roast was City+, this was reached 13 minutes 00 seconds into the roast. About 25% of the beans had light cracks at the tips.
*The beans were dumped and force cooled. This was before Second crack began by a large margin.
Post Roast Notation: There was some varability in roast (due to difference in bean size), but not as significant as I had feared. It was not notable in the cupping.
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Joe
October 21, 2021
Really good.. really like the fruitiness to this one.. smooth.. roasted to light medium and it is great. Definitely getting more of this.
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David
August 28, 2022
@ Todd. Thank you for sharing your roasting recipe for these beans! I made 10 batches using your recipe and it came out great. My previous attempts at making this coffee live up to my expectations fell short on numerous occasions. I hope my review can serve as yet another example of trying new things and looking for the right recipe. Todd's recipe works great for these beans and I found it also reduced the beans chafe some in my Gene Cafe Roaster. Thanks you again Todd for sharing this wonderful recipe!
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FullBodyBrew
January 14, 2022
My experience in roasting these two Yemen coffees now is to dump the roast on the first one or two cracks of first crack. I have gone longer and find no redeeming qualities. But a short roast of this one yields lemon notes with a chocolate finish. I like it!
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Abdul
December 21, 2021
My friends and I have enjoyed it very much. I do the medium light roast and spice it with cardamom or saffron (arabic style).
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FullBodyBrew
December 2, 2021
I don’t normally do this but I recently bought 5 lbs sight unseen based on the current reviews because these beans are purported to be some of the very best green beans. I roasted over a pound of beans on my SR500 before I hit a delicious roast.
These beans are very delicate! To get the best roast you have to be careful with the heat and know when to pull them. I roasted on high heat for 2-3 minutes to get the roast going, then switched to medium heat. When I heard the first two cracks of FC, I dumped the roast into my colander to cool. 24 hours later, it’s a beautiful cup! Delicious!
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saud
July 16, 2022
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icanfixxit
March 8, 2022
Ordered Mocca and Java to roast and blend. Let me say WOW these are good. I’ve wanted to try these for a while now and I’m sorry I waited so long. I’ll be getting more soon.
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Jon
December 14, 2021
I love Yeman Mocha and its really hard to find. Thankfully the Corral loves it too. Great product from a great company!
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Paul
December 6, 2021
Roasted medium-light, roasted medium-dark. The latter was slightly better but pale dominantly vegetable flavor with touch of chocolate.
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B E Baldwin
September 23, 2021
Love this Yemen. Never had it before. I find that it's very sweet with lots of citrus notes and great aftertaste that doesn't linger. I only roast light so I can't comment on other types of roasts. Highly Recommended.
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Fawzyah
September 23, 2021
The best coffee i ever had for the past 45 years the yamani khulanie
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Daryl
April 14, 2022
If you like grading out defects this is the bean for you. I stopped pulling defects at 10g per 100g batch only because i didn't want to spend any more time sifting through them. Taste is nothing special. If you value your time and quality of bean I do not recommend these.
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nathan
December 12, 2021
nathan
Whenever one pays this much for beans, one could certainly expect a quality product of current decade crop of beans. Loads of chaff during roasting. Taste was not remotely similar to it's description...very metallical taste. IMHO, way overpriced and oversold.
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Bub's Daddy
September 25, 2021
So this one is a little more expensive, relative to most others on this site. So if your on the fence relative to the price, I would suggest you get off the damn fence. Another level.
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Kathleen Ford
December 7, 2021
I saw a piece on Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley and decided to try it. I'm a Jamaican Blue diehard fan due to taste and low acidity. It was awful.
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