Medium-dark and built to work hard, Ciao Barista is the blend to reach for when one bean has to cover the whole day’s trading. It is roasted for espresso first, with enough sweetness and structure to survive being poured through steamed milk, and it arrives as ten 500g bags so a busy site can open little and often.
Where the flavour comes from
Beans come from community farms in Central America, Ethiopia and Brazil, a combination that gives the blend its shape: Brazilian body and nuttiness underneath, Central American sweetness through the middle, and a lift of aromatic complexity from the Ethiopian component. Taken to a medium-dark roast, the result is a syrupy shot with a lasting crema that reads clearly in a cappuccino instead of vanishing behind the milk.
Key details
- Ten 500g bags per case, 5kg of beans in total
- One-way valve packaging to keep beans fresh after roasting
- Medium-dark roast aimed squarely at espresso extraction
- Origins across Central America, Ethiopia and Brazil
- Holds up in lattes, flat whites and cappuccinos
- Grinds cleanly in bean to cup and commercial espresso grinders
This makes a sensible house bean for cafés, delis, hotels and offices running a bean to cup machine, where the person making the coffee changes from shift to shift. A forgiving blend of this kind narrows the gap between a well-dialled grinder and a rushed one, which keeps complaints down and quality up across the week.
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