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IMAGINE THAT consumers and specialty coffee aficionados around North America suddenly
refused to purchase dark, over-roasted coffee beans and began to demand that their local
coffeehouse offer a lightly-roasted, vibrant tasting, easy-to-digest coffee. Would you be able to
handle the challenge of creating the perfect light roast?
Of course, this is a hypothetical question. Dark-roasted beans enjoy such massive popularity
among coffee consumers that it is hard to imagine coffee drinkers spontaneously protesting
against the trend. For some reason, roasting dark seems to keep coffeehouses everywhere, from
the boardwalk beach cafés in San Diego to the rainy streets of Maine, in its tight grip.
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Create the Perfect Light Roast
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Lighten Up