Burnt & Bitter? Try Londinium Espresso

by Reiss Gunson on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:28

Most people know espresso as a nasty, burnt, & bitter beverage, and regard it as unfit to drink. Londinium Espresso changes this.

Even amongst coffee aficionados and roasters you will often hear the view expressed that espresso can be made with any low grade Robusta beans that you have to hand, and roast them to the point of exhibiting burnt notes. It’s true, and this is often the way it is done. Our point is it doesn’t have to be this way.

We use Arabica beans almost exclusively, but our Kickstart roast is 100% Robusta beans as they contain approximately twice the amount of caffeine of Arabica beans. While it doesn’t have the same complexity and nuances in flavour that our Arabica roasts exhibit, but we defy you to tell us it isn’t the best coffee to get you started for the day. We do not follow that predominant school of thought that all Robusta coffees are of poor quality. High quality Robusta beans will give a superior taste to a low quality Arabica.

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