Lifestyle / Coffee / Continental Roast: Also known as Espresso Roast, After-Dinner Roast, and European Roast. Terms for coffee brought to degrees of roast ranging from somewhat darker than the traditional American norm to dark brown. Acidity diminishes and a rich bittersweetness emerges. Among many newer American specialty roasters, roast styles once called by these names may in fact constitute the typical, 'regular' roast of coffee.
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Lifestyle / Coffee / Light Espresso Roast: Terms for coffee brought to degrees of roast somewhat darker than the traditional American norm, but lighter than the classic dark roast variously called espresso, French, or Italian. In the cup, full MORE
Lifestyle / Coffee / Light Roast: Coffee brought to a degree of roast of coffee lighter than the traditional American norm, and grainlike in taste, with a sharp, almost sour acidity. This roast style is not a factor in specialty coffe MORE
Lifestyle / Coffee / Medium Roast: Also known as American Roast. Coffee roasted to traditional American taste: medium brown. MORE