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• We focus on the Roasting and Packaging of the finest quality Arabica Coffee Beans.  If you are not 100% satisfied with any of our products, please return them for a full refund or exchange.
• We use only the highest quality Arabica Coffee Beans for all of our varietal and blended Coffees including Chemical Free Water Process Decaf.  Robusta and other lesser coffee beans are not used.......Life's too short!
• Each Coffee Bean is roasted on a cushion of heated air to the exact degree required to develop its peak flavour.  Blending is performed to satisfy general resale and individual customer requirements.
• The Coffee is then packaged for immediate delivery directly to our retail and wholesale customers and our retail stores.
• All of our Coffee is protected by the highest quality packaging available.  Each bag incorporates a valve which allows the carbon dioxide to escape without bursting the bag.  Furthermore, the valve prevents the entry of coffee's enemies.......oxygen, moisture & airborne yeast organisms, etc.
• Coffee orders of 3 Kg or more are delivered in the Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast areas within 24 hours of roasting.  Coffee deliveries to greater Australia are sent by Express Post or other fast carrier.  Larger quantities of bags can be custom labeled for resale, special functions, etc.

We start with premium quality ARABICA Coffee Beans:

 Our Arabica Coffee comes from diverse countries:

Colombia     Costa Rica    Guatemala    Kenya

Ethiopia        Sumatra        Papua New Guinea        and others

Maximum flavour and moderate caffeine.....ARABICA Coffee is the most flavourful and aromatic of the three species of the coffee genus;  the other two being Canephora (Robusta) and Liberica (which is not cultivated commercially).  Arabica coffee has approximately half the caffeine of Robusta coffee.

Robusta coffee is used primarily for instant coffee.  Some coffee roasters use it in their blends because it is less expensive and has a higher vegetable oil content.  This higher oil content allows Robusta blends to produce a thick Crema even after weeks of degradation in the distribution chain.

Coffee grows around the world between the latitudes of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.  Arabica Coffee grows in the cooler high mountains of the tropics.  In this climate, it ripens slowly developing a more intense flavour.  Each country has its unique soil and weather conditions.  The Arabica Coffee plant translates these conditions into coffee flavours unique to the country geography.

It is likely that you will enjoy many of our different coffees;  try blending two or more in search of your own Coffee Nirvana.

Chemical Free Water Decaffeination Process

The conventional method uses solvents such as methylene chloride to wash the caffeine out of the coffee beans.  The caffeine is then filtered out of the solvent and sold to the pharmaceutical industry.  This method is the least expensive.  Moreover, the costs are defrayed by the revenue from caffeine sales

In the Chemical Free Water Process method the beans are flooded with water which soaks out the caffeine and some of the flavour components.  The water is filtered to remove the caffeine.  Finally, the resulting liquid is reapplied to the beans allowing them to reabsorb the flavour components remaining in the water. This method is more expensive due to the complexity and the fact that the caffeine is not salvageable for resale.

Our Coffee is decaffeinated using only the Chemical Free Water Process

Decaffeinated Coffee that Tastes Good.....We start with the best Arabica Coffee Beans from Central America and Africa.  We use only the highest Grown ARABICA Coffee Beans to insure the best tasting coffee.  Caffeine is tasteless;  so its removal should not damage the coffee's taste quality.

We guarantee that our decaffeinated Coffee Beans will provide you with the best and freshest tasting cup of coffee.

The best Coffee Beans deserve the best Packaging:

The Coffee Roaster has searched the world for the best packaging. Coffee becomes very vulnerable after the roasting process is complete. The carmelized sugars and volatile oil compounds can be easily damaged by:

• Oxidation caused by oxygen in the atmosphere
• Fermentation caused by airborne organisms

The coffee must be packaged immediately after roasting in order to prevent this damage. In this way, the air and it's contaminants can be kept away from the roasted coffee.

The chemical changes in the coffee bean precipitated by the roasting process cause a gas to be produced which carries much of the coffee aroma. The volume of this gas is approximately 3 times the volume of the bean. Immediate packaging must take this phenomenon into consideration. This is why our packaging incorporates a one-way valve. This valve allows the gas to escape without bursting the bag or allowing oxygen to inter the bag.

Finally, our bags include a zip-lock which allows you to open and reseal the bag while using the coffee. The flexible package allows you to squeeze the out air prior to resealing so as to protect the coffee.

All coffee shipped from The Coffee Roaster to the customer is heatsealed to prevent premature opening. For use, simply remove the heatseal and unzip the bag.

The best Coffee Roasting technology working for you:

In the early period coffee was roasted over the open fire in a metal utensil.  After hundreds of years, human inventive skill  transformed the hand held metal utensil into a cast iron drum within which the beans tumbled while the drum rotated over a heat source.

This increased roasting efficiency; however the ability to monitor the roasting process within the drum remained visual and quite difficult.

VISUAL because roast completion can only be determined by the colour of the bean;  this requires intense, almost surgical, attention from the Roastmaster during roast completion.

DIFFICULT because only the infrared light spectrum measures the degree of roast accurately and the human eye can't detect this spectrum;  hence, roast consistency between batches is practically impossible to attain.

This method consistently produces a clean evenly roasted coffee bean for a number of reasons:

• Each bean is suspended on a cushion of heated air which insures a consistent even roast.
• The rapidly moving hot air blows away and captures any debris and chaff which occurs naturally in such an agricultural product.
• Each coffee variety or blend is roasted to the degree necessary to develop it's peak flavour.
• The roasting process is electronically controlled to insure that the coffee is raised to the precise temperature required to develop the best flavour.
• The introduction of cool air quickly reduces the temperature of the coffee to stop further development of unwanted flavours.

Each coffee variety or blend will brew excellent drip, plunger and espresso style coffee.  The flavour, body and acidity of the beverage will differ as a reflection of individual coffee growing geography and weather.

All of our roasts are approximately "medium dark" as judged by the industry "Roast Color Classification System".  However, coffee beans from differing geographys will develop lighter or darker colour depending on the amount of caramelized sugars, etc. inherent in the bean.....ENJOY!