~ What is Roasting?
Roasting is defined as subjecting the green coffee beans to a
temperature sufficient enough to evaporate the moisture in the
beans and roast the beans to a desired color. Acids are created by
not drying the beans sufficiently before roasting them.

~ What's different about our roasting process?
Saint’s Coffee roasts your coffee in a fluid bed roaster. "Fluid bed"
refers to the constant movement of beans and hot air. The beans
never rest on any surface. The beans are levitated by the hot air,
which totally engulfs the bean. The air is what roasts the coffee.
The beans never contact a surface that is hotter than the air that is
roasting the beans. This ensures that the beans are individually and
uniformly roasted, and decreases roast times to 9 to 14 minutes.
Shorter roasting times create less acid in the beans.
The other advantage of a fluid bed roaster
is that it cleans the beans of debris while
roasting. In a traditional barrel roaster,
burning chaff from the beans smolders on
the surface of the barrel and coats the
beans with tars and residues which have
collected on the surface of the barrel. This
does not occur in the fluid bed roaster used
by Saint’s Coffee!