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>>8941308
>I DON'T DRINK DARK ROASTS ANY MORE. JUST MEDIUM
>There is a reason why roasting houses roasting green coffee beans to dark roast level.Very dishonest practice on behalf of the coffee industry.

>>8959555
>which is?

YES I WILL PROVIDE YOU SOME
Dark roasted beans have no flavor at all, except flavor of burnt charred asphalt.
There is a very good reason why roasting houses roast coffee beans to a dark roast level.

Lowest quality beans are roasted to dark roast level, because they taste like shit if roasted to Medium roast level.
So to deal with it and still sell the low quality coffee beans at the same price as the much better quality beans that are roasted to blond or medium roast levels, the "coffee geniuses" come up with this cleaver trick
to roast the hell out of the beans (making them poisonous at the same time, giving you cancer) but that dark roast level gives the "uniformity" in taste, because at that dark roast level all coffee beans taste the same -they all taste like tar.
And the nice complexity of flavors and all the oils and the sugars all that is good in coffee is burned is charred in dark roasts.

Coffee is the only product that you can take lowest quality of it that normally should be sold at much lower price per pound and by Dark roasting process you trick customers to pay the same price per pound as for the higher quality product.
And as a bonus you are getting charred coffee beans that were proven by medical scientist to cause cancer.

So there you go next time when you are forking out your money on Dark roast coffee beans think about what you just read.
It's a little dirty secret that coffee industry hates to talk about.

>>8642878
>because of brainwashing especially in the espresso or expresso coffee circles.
I noticed that after that line that was mine I did'n include link to the site where I was quoting the info from,
because starting from here
>>8642878
>Dark roast has a heavy bitter taste.
all text is a quote from this site,Seasoned Advice:
Seasoned Advice is a question and answer site for professional and amateur chefs.
Why are dark roast beans usually used for espresso?
http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/24176/why-are-dark-roast-beans-usually-used-for-espresso

But I personally don't consider Full City (or even Vienna-Light French) as burned charred dark roast.
Starting from Full French and up,all that is burned charred dark roast.
In this (picture related) everything from number 5 is dark roast.