Green Coffee

Green Coffee Beans Online

At Kaldi Gourmet Coffee Roasters, we offer green coffee beans online at wholesale prices. When you buy more, you save more! Our 100% Arabica gourmet green coffee comes in bulk for those who wish to roast their own coffee. Also, we are adding fair trade organic green coffee beans online, along with green Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, to our selection of wholesale green coffee beans for roasting.

Unlike roasted coffee which deteriorates after 4 to 6 weeks, green coffee beans can be stored in a cool, dry place for months or even years. So if you prefer your coffee with a distinctive roasted flavor and want to ensure that every cup is 100% fresh, roasting your own green coffee at home is the perfect solution. Home roasting is not only more economical than buying ready roasted coffee, but it also allows you to experiment with custom blends that combine different varieties of bean and depth of roast so you can find your perfect cup of coffee, just the way you like it.

When coffee is roasted, moisture is forced out of the bean making it expand. Some of the natural sugars are turned into carbon dioxide (CO2) gas while others are caramelized, turning the beans brown and producing the oil that’s responsible for the distinctive and complex flavors and aromas we normally associate with freshly roasted coffee. The longer the roasting time, the more intense the flavor and the darker the color.

There are lots of different types of coffee roasting machines on the market that will make light work of roasting your green coffee beans to perfection. These machines operate much like a popcorn popper, blasting the beans with fast moving hot air and constantly turning them so they roast evenly and don’t scorch. But if you’re on a tight budget or prefer to stick to traditional methods of roasting your beans, the stovetop works just as well — it just takes a little more effort.

For stovetop roasting, all you will need is a robust pot with a tight-fitting lid. A regular popcorn popper with a stirring handle works perfectly. Look for a non-stick pan with a glass lid so that you can monitor the color of the roast throughout the process and get the timing just right. The difference between a perfect roast and a burnt roast can just be a couple of minutes!

We also recommend you use an outdoor burner if possible as roasting at high temperatures produces a lot of pungent smoke. If you’re going to roast in your kitchen open the windows or make sure you are working in a well-ventilated spot (e.g. under your stove vent hood) otherwise you could set off your smoke alarm!

Pre-heat the pan to 400 degrees (anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes) before adding the raw beans. It’s important to keep the beans moving or they will burn so keep cranking the handle until they are fully roasted.

After 3 to 5 minutes you should hear the beans begin to crack. When the cracking stops you’ll have lightly roasted coffee. This is the minimum amount of roast acceptable to make a decent cup of coffee. If you allow the beans to continue roasting they will eventually crack a second time, this time more violently, producing a dark roast with an intense flavor. We recommend that you remove the beans from the heat at this point as otherwise there is a danger they will burn.

Once the beans have reached the desired state of roast, dump them into a metal colander and shake vigorously to remove the chaff then spread out evenly on a baking sheet to cool. We recommend leaving them for a minimum of 2 to 3 hours but, ideally, 12 hours to allow all of the gases creating during the roasting process to disperse. The cooled beans can then be stored in a mason jar or other airtight container in a cool cupboard until you’re ready to use them.

Green coffee is simply raw coffee beans in their natural, unroasted state. They are smaller and harder than roasted coffee beans, pale in color with a slight green tinge, hence the name.

Coffee brewed with raw green beans isn’t very appealing because it has an acidic, slightly bitter, pea-like taste, that is nothing like a regular cup of coffee. That’s because coffee gets its amazing aroma and delicious flavor from roasting.

However, green coffee extract, made by boiling the beans in water for 15 minutes to create an infusion, can be mixed with soda, seltzers, fruit juices or syrups to produce a refreshing, low caffeine drink. Green bean coffee extract combines particularly well with tart, citrus flavors such as lime and cranberry. You can even make a green coffee mojito with fresh mint leaves and cane sugar.

Raw coffee beans contain high levels of chlorogenic acid which has led some to claim significant health and weight loss benefits from drinking green coffee extract, including:

  • Reduced absorption of carbohydrates from the digestive tract, lowering blood sugar level and insulin spikes
  • Reduced absorption and storage of fat in the liver
  • Lower levels of cholesterol and triglycerides (important risk factors for heart disease)
  • Increased fat burning.

However, we don’t recommend consumption of green coffee for weight loss or health benefits but for pure enjoyment.

When it comes to green coffee bean online, use Kaldi as your source for amazing wholesale green coffee beans. Shop our green coffee beans online now! 

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