Tanzania Robusta

This is an estate grown organic fair trade Robusta, from high in the mountains in Tanzania. Organic robusta is very hard to find, but it is important. Most robusta is grown at low altitude (that's the whole point of why they developed it), and there are so many pests there that they have to spray it heavily with pesticides and weed killer. At one point Nestle got bad publicity because their coffee was nearly above the legal limit of Roundup Weedkiller in their coffee. These beans have not been sorted by size, so there are some peaberries and are mostly smaller beans. It's really not that big of a deal. You generally take robusta to a darker roast anyway, so it's all going to get dark. We tried a variety of roast levels with it. You take it 15 seconds into second cracks all the way to a minute of 2nd cracks. There aren’t any complex undertones to unlock, so it doesn't drastically change as you roast it darker. It adds really creamy body to espresso, and you typically keep it to about 10