Today's Roast: Matadakad Private Estate Peaberry

If you click on the heading for today's roast, you will see wikipedia's article on peaberries. I have roasted several types of peaberries and always thought that they were just a smaller bean. I never really noticed that they are in fact a type of mutant bean that never split into two halves the way most coffee beans do. Peaberries occur in the midst of regular crops and account for about 5%-10% of the the harvest. In some regions they are regarded as premium beans and command higher prices; in other regions the peaberries are discarded.

Today's roast was 1 cup of the Matadakad peaberry roasted to full city using the Sweet Maria's Roast Curve. The first crack came in at -4:57 and I stopped the roast at -1:05.

The roast came out beautifully, but because I still had 1/2 cup of roasted Colombian I could not put the beans in the container I usually use for my freshly roasted beans. Instead, I put them in a plastic bag, and was immediately struck by how lightweight they seemed. If you have ever eaten dried soybeans, this is exactly the way these beans felt in that bag. But they didn't look they same as they were roasted to a beautiful full-city-roast brown! :-)