The coffee roasting process

Slow roasting

The high quality selection of Mokaflor is again found in the true roasting phase. Having also grown a lot over the years (the company has changed three head-offices) the roasting machine has always remained the rotating drum operating type and discontinuous cycle. This system of roasting uses the so called “Slow” procedure that completes the roasting in approximately 15/20 minutes compared to the 3/5 of industrial machines. This slowness makes possible to roast the various types of coffee type by type, origin by origin, changing the roasting time for each one. It makes possible for the Master Roaster to control minute by minute, second by second the evolving process, controlling the variables such as the external temperature and the humidity, until to pick and to enhance accents of the aromas of the most valuable Arabica coffee and to improve the bitter and woody accents of the Robusta coffee.

The blending: after!

To single roasting of each coffee origin by origin is expensive, and not only in terms of time. This choice is repaid at the moment of blending, when the coffee roasted at the right point is mixed without trying a generic middle way. This technique allows to combine varieties otherwise difficult to mix, and brings to intuitions such the ChiaroScuro Top blend with four different Arabicas and the 100% Arabica blend with Jamaica blue Mountain, a unique piece in the panorama of Italian blending.

The degasificazione phase

Another choice by Mokaflor - what to do with the story that has been spreading in recent years: the fable according to which the coffee is better if it is packaged as soon as roasted. Romantic but mistaken. At Mokafor we know that, after roasting, the coffee continues to cook inside of the bean for 72 hours, developing during this period baking gas that does nothing to contribute either to the taste or to the wholesomeness of the product. For this reason Mokaflor leaves its coffee to rest in degasification silos before going on to blending and packaging.