Desert Sun has built a reputation for creating a full-bodied, “sweet” cup of coffee. Coffee beans do indeed contain a great many sugars. Roasting the beans transforms how the coffee will taste. Therein lays the balance of engineering, using good roasting equipment for consistency, and art, using human creativity and intuition in coffee roasting.

Few know that during the roasting process, a single bean will undergo over 900 chemical reactions and that a few seconds difference during roast can dramatically change its flavor.

Coffee is roasted to varying levels depending on consumer preference and style of coffee. Roast levels are characteristically classified as light, medium, dark (French, Italian and Espresso roasts.)

Desert Sun’s Coffee Roasting Equipment

Our roasting equipment at Desert Sun is environmentally friendly. We roast our carefully selected beans in a USA-made natural gas-fired Diedrich drum roaster that uses a low Nox, low CO and low CO2 combustion process assisted by a catalytic oxidizer  It’s non perforated carbon steel roasting drum provides a unique balance of convective, conductive and radiant heat transfer to achieve exceptional results. Desert Suns Diedrich roaster is equipped with PLC computer based automation to assist in creating a great variety of specialty coffees by providing precise control to create a consistent and high quality roast through adherence to our proprietary roasting profiles. The proof is in the cup!