A favorite blend designed to endure the rigors of dark roasting, and produce excellent pungent tastes, attractive bittersweet/carbony flavors, and great body. Body is so important to a darker roast, and a thin cup of burned water IS NOT what French Roast coffee is about! When correctly roasted you will taste some degree of bittersweet, overlayed on carbony charcoal tones. You want something still voluminous, and that stings you a bit down the center of the tongue.