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12 OZ. - Whole Beans What to Expect: Brown sugar, milk chocolate, hazelnut/almond nuttiness.  Sweet, very mild acidity. I started working with a roasting company in 1998 near Portland Oregon. I was a whelp of 17 and it was the beginning of an era in specialty coffee that many people, (in & outside of the industry) remember as being marked by rude baristas and ever-lightening roast profiles.This was in Oregon of course, and many people all over the world were, and had been roasting lighter for a long time. But it felt new to us.I can remember when roast profile was a clear and (we thought) trustworthy class-differentiation. We were the light-roasters. They were the dark-roasters. Us. Them. Elves. Goblins.I waited until 2012 to roast anything that even brushed up against second-crack, and as soon as I did it was an obvious hit. Because people--actual people--like darker roasted coffees. It came as a great shock to me. It's called Benevolence and it remains one of our top sellers com