Peruvian Special Dark Roast

The Peruvian Special from GROSCHE is a 100% organic and Fairtrade Certified™ Peruvian coffee. It is made from 100% Arabica beans and has a smooth, sweet taste with mild bitterness. The Peruvian Special is a dark roast and comes in a 1 pound bag. Many coffee lovers prefer darker roasts because it has a smoother, full flavoured coffee taste compared to light roast coffees.

The Peruvian Special is a responsibly grown dark coffee that is 100% organic. It is pure, pesticide and herbicides free and full body of flavour. The Peruvian Special is also Fair trade Certified™ coffee. Fairtrade empowers small-scale farmers and provides them with better prices, decent working conditions and fair terms of trade.

We offer numerous grinds for all GROSCHE coffee beans, but we recommend shipping all of our coffees as whole bean coffees. This allows you to custom grind your beans for your preferred brewing method. It also means, that you get the freshest and most aromatic tasting coffee every time. Use a coarse to medium grind for French press and pour over coffee makers and a fine grind for stovetop espresso makers.

Our Peruvian Special blend is a medium roast custom blend coffee. When choosing your roast you have three options; light, medium and dark. During the coffee production process, darker roasts involve keeping the beans on the machine longer or at a higher temperature compared to lighter roast coffee beans. When this happens the coffee beans will lose more moisture and become less dense. In the end, this gives the dark/medium roast beans more flavour by taking away some of the bitterness.

So, any coffee lovers' preference will depend on their preferred taste and caffeine content. A lighter roast is dense with a higher caffeine content, a dark roast will bring out more of a single-note flavour and is less caffeinated. And a medium roast is a happy middle-ground between density, caffeine content and flavour.

A common misconception about storing coffee is that is good to put it in the freezer. Freezing your coffee puts it in contact with moisture which ends up draining it of its flavor. The best place to store your Peruvian Special coffee is within an airtight container, somewhere cool, dark and dry.

This could be a pantry or a cabinet, just as long as it’s somewhere away from heat and light. If you really want to store your coffee on your counter, keep the coffee in a canister that is opaque, airtight, and away from direct sunlight. Use it up within 1-2 weeks of opening to enjoy a coffee with the freshest, fullest aroma.

GROSCHE takes pride in being a carbon-neutral and family owned Certified B Corporation that cares about social and environmental responsibility. And thanks to loyal customers like you, together we’re making a difference. When you buy a GROSCHE product you're funding 50+ days of safe drinking water for someone in need through the GROSCHE Safe Water Project.

Thus far, the GROSCHE Safe Water Project has funded over 2,800 Biosand water filters and 300 million days of safe drinking water for people in communities across 6 different countries. And it wouldn’t be possible without you.