What is WSCAFE's roasted robusta coffee?
WSCAFE-branded roasted robusta coffee aka robusta roasted coffee, is roasted from green, raw, unroasted robusta coffee beans. We source carefully-selected green robusta coffee from different local coffee farms across Vietnam. As the country grows millions of tons of robusta per year, we have a number of choice of robusta coffee for meeting customer's different demand and request. Our finished roasted robusta products will be labelled under our brand name or customer's brand as for the 'private label coffee' service.
Robusta coffee has two types of roasting; that is, pure (espresso) roast and flavored roast. To our point of view, the roasting degree for robusta should have three main roasting profiles including medium roast, dark roast and super-dark roast.
Vietnam in particular has flavored roast as the main roasting profile for robusta. To do this flavored one, a producer might add caramel, butter, salt, etc. into it to make traditional Vietnamese iced coffee.
Our green robusta coffee beans are being roasted by modern hot-aired technology coffee roasting machines to create high-quality roasting batches for the world's local coffee customers.
How is the roasted robusta coffee made?
Roasting robusta coffee to some extent is easier than arabica. However, it also requires a professional attitude by roasting masters. There are some private techniques and know-hows to guarantee the roasting robusta coffee to maximize its wonderful characteristics and tastes. The brewed robusta must highlight the strong, robust and heavy-bodied taste as its nature.
Sourcing green robusta coffee
The majority of coffee plantation in Vietnam is robusta. Thus, we have a clear advantage to source any kinds, any quality of robusta coffee that we'd love to do. The company specially has "more room" to improve the quality and to pilot new batches of robusta coffee with local's partnered farms.
Roasting
Medium, dark and super-dark roasts are our most repeatedly roasting profiles. We often do the medium roast for foreign customers and roast it purely for making espresso while Vietnam's local buyers are keen on dark roast to make iced coffee and iced condensed sweetener coffee. Super-dark roast (with butter) will leak coffee oil and the fatty mixed tastes will make an extra-bold cup of robusta coffee for life-long drinkers.
Cooling, Degassing, Storing
Cooling, degassing, storing are important to roasted arabica. So do the roasted robusta coffee. A wrong or a weak cooling speed will lead to a batch of failure and you have no change to 'undo'. Degassing and storing must be carefully implemented especially for super-dark roasted robusta coffee.
Cooling: Cooling the arabica roasted coffee beans is very important. It prevents the roasted beans to be overcooked because after being suddenly dropped out from the roasting drums at about 200oC degree, the beans are still being roasted as a thermal inertia which will cause unexpected profiles. We equip industrial cooling trays with powerful cooling capacity to "cool" the beans immediately.
Degassing: Unlike other beans, coffee beans, especially arabica coffee beans need an effective degassing step to help the beans to "breath" and fully develop its aromas and tastes. Knowing how to do this is very important and makes the beans to be different.
Storing: We use degassing valve to store our arabica roasted coffee beans in order to keep it as fresh as possible during the transportation to our customers worldwide.
With years of experiences of roasting arabica coffee beans, we believe that roasted arabica is the best choice for arabica coffee because roasted arabica will keep the finest aroma and taste of it. Meanwhile, instant arabica coffee can be convenient but it is hardly able to maintain its sophisticated aroma and taste. Therefore, the quality between roasted arabica and instant arabica coffee is extremely different.
How is the roasted robusta coffee consumed?
As roasted whole beans.
The arabica roasted coffee beans are usually wrapped and packed as whole beans. The beans will be ground with grinders by customers at their homes, offices, coffee shops, and at any places when they need to energize with a cup of espresso. In a coffee shop, grinding roasted coffee beans is the most exciting activity to fill up the space with full of aromas and comfortable sounds. This is also a must-have checklist for every coffee shop. This way of consuming will give you the freshest cups of arabica coffee. However, you need a coffee grinder as a prerequisite.
As ground coffee powder.
Pre-ground arabica coffee powder will save your time and be convenient as you don't need to grind the roasted beans before brewing. And, of course, you don't need a coffee grinder with you. This is very helpful especially going out for a picnic. However, it limits your experience a little bit because you don't hear the sound of grind coffee beans. And it requires good coffee bags to maintain the freshness of coffee aroma.
How is the roasted robusta coffee packed?
In the comparison with instant coffee and coffee mixes, arabica roasted coffee has a less strict requirement for packaging. We see that in the markets other producers use metalized bags or simple bags to pack roasted arabica coffee beans. However, we recommend that you should use a liminated alu bag with degassing valve to 'lock the aroma and flavor' of your arabica roasted coffee.
Gusset bags, pouches, tin cans are the top popular packaging options for roasted arabica coffee. A degassing valve will be very beneficial to maintain the amount of aromas and flavors of coffee inside.
Recently, pour-over paper drips and drip bags are attracting more attention from new and young coffee lovers worldwide as they are easy to brew and travelling-friendly.
The bulk packs for roasted robusta coffee of WSCAFE
WSCAFE's favorite bulk pack for arabica roasted coffee is 5 kilograms (net weight) per aluminium bag with degassing valve. However, we also offer craft bags with PE liner or paper cartons with PE liner if customers like to do that.
Conclusion.
To sum up, WSCAFE produces premium arabica roasted coffee beans with the growing regions from Da Lat, Lam Dong, Vietnam. The company uses modern integrated roasting facilities to roast and pack its arabica coffee products. Although we are offering the three main roasting profiles including light, medium and dark roast, we do accept customized roast upon customer's request. We mainly pack arabica roasted coffee in small packets in gusset bags and pouches with degassing valve. Our bulk packaging is cartons, craft bags and aluminium bags with export standard.