Inside a roast

Watching green beans turn into aromatic roasted coffee is something of a magical experience.

Have you ever stood there wishing you could see what’s going on inside those beans as fundamental chemical and physical changes take place?

This is the journey I would like to take you on. To look closer and systematically track how each bean is ground and extracted, our friends at Vacation Coffee Roasters roasted some Colombian washed process beans at six different stages of development for an experiment at Bureaux Collective.

The first sample was green beans, followed by a roast stopped