Espresso roast is just a roast that they think is best for espresso. It can be used to make regular coffee, it just tends to be a little darker of a roast. Blonde espresso roast will be a darker roast than the Veranda.

So yeah. You can brew any beans any method.

In the case of blonde espresso and veranda, one of the big differences is the origin of the beans. Veranda only has Latin American beans while blonde espresso has beans from east Africa in addition to some Latin American. They also probably do something different in the roasting process but details on that aren’t as easy to find. Origin is really big w/ coffee because if you grow the same kind of coffee plant in different climate and soil conditions you get noticeably different results.

Highly recommend trying blonde espresso beans brewed as coffee because I HATE veranda. I also super dislike the signature espresso and only ever get espresso drinks with blonde shots.

The blonde espresso is roasted differently. We ran out of blonde espresso at my store and didn’t have any sirens blend to replace it with so we thought we were geniuses to put veranda in the machine. It pulled like water because the roast and therefore the beans aren’t suited for espresso brewing

Don’t think anyone touched on *arabica*, but that’s just the species of coffee plant (coffea arabica). Arabica grows at higher elevations and is considered more desirable than its relative, coffea robusta, which you’ll often find in “diner coffee.”