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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Arabica coffee is traditionally grown in shade in many (but not all) parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela, and in some other parts of the world, including India and some regions of Indonesia and Africa. Elsewhere arabica coffee is traditionally grown in full sun, or near full sun. The importance of maintaining shade canopies to supply habitat for migrating song birds in Central America has led to a controversial campaign by researchers at the Smithsonian Institute and their supporters to define "shade grown" in rather narrow terms (shade provided by mixed native trees) and label coffees grown under such a native canopy as "bird friendly." Farmers who traditionally have not grown coffee in shade but maintain extensive forest reserves on their land understandably object to the concept, as do those who use non-native trees to shade their coffee. On the other hand, shade grown coffees most definitely are much easier on the environment than sun grown coffees, and the better tasting traditional varieties of arabica, bourbon and typica, are, in Central America at least, best grown in shade.“

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What Is Coffee? - National Coffee Association (#)

„Coffea arabica is descended from the original coffee trees discovered in Ethiopia. These trees produce a fine, mild, aromatic coffee and represent approximately 70 percent of the world's coffee production. On the world market, arabica coffees bring the highest prices. The better arabicas are high grown coffees -- generally grown between 2,000 to 6,000 feet above sea level -- though optimal altitude varies with proximity to the equator. The important factor is that temperatures must remain mild, neither too hot nor too cold, ideally between 59 - 75 degrees, with about 60 inches of rainfall a year. The trees are hearty but a heavy frost will kill them. Arabica trees are costly to cultivate because the terrain tends to be steep and access difficult. Also, because the trees are more disease prone than robusta, they require additional care and attention.“

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Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story- Importance of Shade for Co (#)

„Tio (1962) reported that the saturation on apparent photosynthesis was reached at 2000 foot -candles and maintained the rate up to 6000 footcandle intensity (60% daylight) after which it decreased. Venkataramanan and Govindappa (1987) found that the dry matter production will not be maximum at full daylight especially in arabica coffee and the optimum light requirement will be 70% of daylight (Photosynthetically Active radiation (PAR): 1356 micro Einstein). The recent studies on the photosynthetic efficiency under various light intensities have also indicated that high light intensity reduced the photosynthetic efficiency in arabica coffee compared to robusta coffee. The saturation of efficiency was observed at the PAR of 750 to 920 and 650 to 750 p moles m z s ' in arabica cultivations of Sln.9 and S1n.12 respectively, whereas it was at 1000 to 1100 and 1300 to 1600 p moles m' s-' respectively in robusta cultivars of S.274 and C X R (Ananymous,2002).“

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Globalisation and me (#)

„I was amazed to discover that coffee grows as two green beans inside a bright red cherry, the finest coffee is hand-picked by small poor farmer, subject to weather and market fluctuations and can pass through as many as fifty hands on its way to my cup each making a buck on the way, except the farmers. Frenzied trading All Arabica coffee is traded on the coffee, sugar and cocoa exchange in New York where in frenzied trading pits producers, roasters and scalpers shout at the top of their voices and wave their hands frantically trading future contracts of coffee in units of 38,500 pounds without a coffee bean in sight. Now the coffee price has fallen to an all time low. And that is due to Vietnam (of all places) quickly becoming the second largest producer of coffee in the world.“

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The Coffees of India (#)

„Silver Cloud Estate was founded in 1950 by Gregory Joseph Coelho, the scion of an illustrious family of planters - whose coffee growing traditions, date back to the early part of the 20th century. In thier monsooning process, arabica coffee is spread on the floor of the special monsooning warehouse in Mangalore, raked and turned around by hand to enable them to soak in moisture of the humid winds. The monsooning process takes around 12 to 16 months of duration, where in the beans swell to twice their original size and turn into pale golden colour.Then there are additional hand-sortings to remove any coffee that did not expand properly, and the coffee is prepared for export. This is an extremely earthy, musty, pungent cup with a unique combination of caramelly finish and potent flavors.“

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Blending Basics (#)

„Presumably the goal is to make a coffee that is higher in cup quality than any of the ingredients individually. But high quality arabica coffee should be able to stand alone; it should have good clean flavor, good aromatics, body and aftertaste. So one reason coffees are blended in the commercial world might be the use of lower-quality coffee in the blend. Another reason might be to create a proprietary or signature blend that leads consumers to equate a particular coffee profile with a particular brand image; consumers don't often call Starbucks by the origin names used in the coffee but simply as "a cup of Starbucks" as if the dark carbony roast tastes were somehow exclusive to that brand.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„* Arcane note: Many coffee professionals logically assume, on the basis of flavor profile, that the small-grower arabica coffees of Sumatra (Mandheling, Lintong) are either dry-processed (meaning the bean or seed is dried with the entire fruit still wrapped around it) or semi-dry-processed (meaning the bean is dried with the outer skin removed but with the pulpy part of the fruit still adhering to it). In fact, small-grower Sumatra arabicas are wet-processed (the bean is only dried after the fruit has been entirely removed). However, the wet-processing is done in small batches by hand and the fermentation stage is dry (no water added to the pulped beans) rather than wet (water added) as in most conventional, large-scale wet processing.“

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Tea & Coffee 04/02 - Finding a Path Through a Historic Maze (#)

„As SCAA meets in Anaheim, its roaster and retailer members must again face the fact that its partners at origin are in dire trouble as new sources of cheap Robusta beans are depressing world Arabica prices for yet another season. The larger coffee world appears in paralysis, unable to act in support of the grower and the future of better Arabica coffee for the U.S. consumer. What we, the little guys, can do is to find a path through the historic failures of both free and controlled markets to find new directions of common cause between grower and roaster, producer and consumer. Our best good faith efforts can sustain some specialty coffee farms that would otherwise perish.“

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BBC News | The Economy | Asian crisis boosts coffee market (#)

„Hurricane Mitch destroyed much of Nicaragua's infrastructureCrop losses of up to 50% in Honduras and 25% in Nicaragua, however, did not effect the coffee market, says Mr. Shaw: "Mitch has no impact on the New York C-index, which is the main future market for Arabica-coffee." Julia Powell from Fairtrade said: "In terms of quantity, Mitch had no effect on the global coffee market, although it had a dramatic impact on the farmers". Her organisation buys coffee directly from small farmer co-operatives. The floods destroyed the crop, but also great parts of the infrastructure on which the coffee economy depends.“

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CoffeeGeek - Saeco Classico - Phil Tellier's Review (#)

„ I was amazed at the quality of the crema, and the intensity and concentration of the taste. I tied using his 100% Arabica coffee (same brand -- everything) in my Briel and like became boring... Since then, I've tried espresso from different recommended restaurants and have concluded that the Saeco Classico was as close as you can get from commercial quality espresso in the confort of your own home. I've organized an espresso tasting seminar by gathering friends who own espresso machines and have performed a head to head test amongst 5 different machines,using the same brewing conditions (I don't have the details on hand, but the Saeco and the Briel were two of them).“

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Shade Coffee at the Altar of Sacrifice (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„The procurement prices for both export and domestic traders are fixed on the basis of the London terminal market for Robusta Coffee & New York terminal market for Arabica Coffee. Basically, these terminals are operated by fund operators who at times breathe fire on the market or look for windfall profits and disappear. Five years back the global demand and supply was evenly balanced but in recent years new entrants like Vietnam (NON TRADITIONAL COFFEE GROWING COUNTRY) has flooded the market with cheap quality Robusta beans.“

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Coffee around the World... - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„The coffee of Peru is produced and marketed on a smaller scale than it is in the larger Colombia. Quality Arabica coffee is here and flourishes between 3,000 and 5500 feet in the central highlands. The two principal coffee towns of Villa Rica and La Merced are at the center of coffee activity for Peru. Villa Rica, where the majority of the quality coffee is grown, was founded in 1925 by a German settlers and German names are quite common here.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„Unwashed Arabicas are produced by the dry method. Countries producing Arabica coffee are grouped in one of the three groups of Arabica‑producing countries established under the Agreement, namely Colombian Mild Arabicas, Brazilian Natural Arabicas, and Other Mild Arabicas, according to the type of Arabica coffee they produce.“

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The generic pump-powered espresso manual - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Hey, while we are at it, let's identify the two major types of coffee; arabica coffee and robusta coffee. 100% Arabica coffee is generally used in all gourmet blends. Robusta, the cheap stuff, is used in most bad-assed instant coffees and bagged-binned and tinned stuff that you buy in the superstore for $1.99. This stuff will simply NOT make good coffee, so forget about it.“

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Global Exchange : nacla1000.html (#)

„TransFair reasoned that it could appeal to "specialty" coffee consumers: buyers who pay top dollar for top-quality Arabica beans. Arabica coffee retails for about $10 a pound and comprises 15 to 25 percent of the total coffee market. TransFair's research showed that people who pay $10 a pound for coffee would not mind adding a dollar more to guarantee a fair trade price to small coffee farmers.“

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Tips on Coffee - The Coffee Plant (#)

„But, in cultivation, for ease of picking of the coffee berry, the coffee tree is seldom allowed over 15 feet. The Arabica coffee plant is typically smaller than the Robusta coffee plant. Coffee is a tree of genus Coffea, its seeds, and a stimulating beverage prepared from those seeds. Coffee is widely cultivated in tropical countries in plantations for export to temperate countries.“

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The bottom line on Kopi Luwak - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„The cherry of choice for these tropical cats is the lowly robusta bean. Not being a bean of distinction, like its richer cousin, the Arabica, the robusta bean is an ordinary one, lacking body, flavor and anything faintly resembling a classic coffee profile. So, you ask, what is the deal with this coffee anyway? One would assume that a coffee lacking character would hardly be improved with a colonic treatment from a finicky feline.“

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BSCA - News (#)

„For some strange reason, players in the speciality market have simply defined naturals as being outside of speciality. But it is not only a washed arabica that can earn a place in this segment, as those who have been in the market for some decades understand; younger coffee aficionados don’t know what they’re missing. Well harvested, prepared and graded naturals have sweetness, flavours and body that few coffees can match—if you can find them.“

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The Javagirl Goes A-Cupping (#)

„"Colombian coffees are more acidic," he tells us, "although they start very bright. Arabica coffees grown in Latin America are often grown on very volcanic soil, which contributes to the acidity. These plantations get good growing weather -- lots of rain, and the water run-off helps the plants. Even the surrounding crops contribute to the flavor.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Old Java, Old Government, Old Brown. Arabica coffee from Java that, like mature coffee, has been deliberately held in warehouses in port cities to reduce acidity and increase body. The purpose is to mimic the flavor characteristics of the original Java coffee, which was inadvertently aged in the holds of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sailing ships during their passage to Europe.“

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Café Forum | Ethiopian Coffee Companies (#)

„We export washed and unwashed (natural or sundried) coffee from among the nine varieties of Arabica coffee Ethiopia produces, all with their distinct characteristics. Roasters give special attention to each variety, specially on the basis of their difference in acidity and flavour.- P.O. Box 270 Code 1110, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Tel: (2511)75-7581 - Fax: (2511)75-7582 - Email: medco@telecom.net.et “

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BSCA - Brazil Specialty Coffee Association (#)

„BSCA, as the Association is known, was founded by a group of growers of high quality coffees to bring to the market their finest specialty products, the very best of Cafés do Brazil. BSCA has members in all areas of Brazil where high quality Arabica coffees are grown: Sul de Minas, Matas de Minas, Cerrado, Chapadas de Minas, Mogiana, Bahia and Parana.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Notes: A subdued cup, but pleasantly balanced with pungent and sweet tones that together read as prunes, dried fruit or, in a bit of a stretch, chocolate. The bag declares it contains "100% arabica coffee." In this case, not half-bad arabica coffee either. Sold whole-bean in a foil valve bag. Cost per ounce: $0.50.“

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Tea & Coffee 07/04 - World News (#)

„El Salvador - The Arabica coffee grown by Lya de Castaneda, Alicia Cristina Alabi De Schuck, and Maria Antonieta Dominguez De Arnesen captured three of the top four price-paid-per-pound spots in the 2004 Cup of Excellence Internet Auction in El Salvador, its second annual countrywide coffee quality competition, held in San Salvador.“

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Amazon.com: Books: The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug (#)

„The story of the rise of coffee houses, their political and social importance and the tale of the origins of afternoon "Tea" were both well done/ The history of soft drinks was an eye-opener as well. The book contains several illustrations and is best enjoyed with a hot cup of Costa Rican Arabica beaned coffee (not pre-ground).“

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Tea & Coffee 09/02 - Asia's Small Coffee Origins (#)

„Some of Asia's better known small origins which have gained recognition in the specialty market for their good quality include Papua New Guinea, which produces about 1.1 million bags of fine Arabica coffee. The Philippines, one of few Asian producing countries with a sizable home consumption, produces about 800,000 bags in an average harvest cycle.“

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Café Forum | Australian Coffee Companies (#)

„We are the producer of 100% Australian Single Estate Arabica Coffee in Central Queensland, Australia. We maintain our quality and consistency through complete vertical intergration - We produce, process, roast, pack and market our own coffee. We are now represented in 4 countries - Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and China.“

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Cafe´ de Colombia - COFFEE BEANS (#)

„Colombian also known as Washed Arabica. It is the highest quality of Arabica coffee. Unlike beans from other origins, all Colombian coffee is "washed;" this process releases many impurities and acid agents, which gives it its rich taste and aroma. back to coffee types“

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Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Espressione 100% Arabica Coffee Pods, Box of 150 (#)

„From Espressione come these pods containing 100 percent arabica coffee for fuss-free espresso brewing. Each sealed pod, which resembles a round tea bag, contains the proper amount of ground coffee (7 grams to be exact) to make a single serving of decaffeinated espresso. Afterward, the pod can be tossed away.“

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Presentation (#)

„It’s market share is about 40%, and 60% of what is produced is exported. In arabica coffee, Brazil has a clear advantage, but in robustas the advantage is less so. Brazilian farmer, Brando noted, get a higher share of profits than farmers in other countries. Internal transportation costs remain high, however.“

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26 to 50 (#)

„38. The 2,000 Arabica coffee cherries it takes to make a roasted pound of coffee arenormally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry contains two beans, it takesabout 4,000 Arabica beans to make a pound of roasted coffee.“

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Did you know that..? - Now you do - lots of interesting tidbits! (#)

„coffee berries start as green berries in early stage of growth, turns yellow, red, then dark crimson when it is finally ripe and yields the best coffee. In fact, Arabica coffee plant takes about 5 years to mature and produce its first crop.“

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Environmental Conditions for Growing Coffee (#)

„Robusta coffee is grown at much lower altitudes (sea level-3000 feet) in an area 10° North and South of the equator (Illy, 22). It is much more tolerant to warm conditions than Arabica coffee.“

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Coffee Talk - Learn to speak like a barista - their lingo. (#)

„As in wine, soil, climate and cultivation methods affect the taste of your coffee. The term varietal is actually a misnomer, since Arabica coffee plants are basically of the same species, unlike wine grapes which come from different species of grape vines.“

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Fonseca Coffee Profile (#)

„Fonseca Coffee, Philadelphia'ssmallest coffee roaster, is dedicated to bringing you the finestArabica coffees available. Please call the numberbelow or write to unoell@comcast.net for more information“

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Cupping Indian Coffees at Mr. Espresso (#)

„Two arabica coffee we evaluated that really impressed me were the Jumboor Estate MNEB from Coorg district. It was a very complete cup, with sage and thyme nuances. I also really liked the Badnekahn Estate coffee from Chikmagalur.“

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A brief history of coffee - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Let us move back a few steps in time to the lands known as Ethiopia and Yemen, about 600 AD where locals boiled the complete fruit of the little understood coffee arabica plant. Not far from there was the now dry port of Il Mucha. Hence the name Mocha.“

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Transfair USA | Fair Trade News (#)

„A Brown history major, Rik Kleinfeldt, started New Harvest Roasters with the big Fair Trade idea. He noted that when you pay $11 or $12 a pound for conventional arabica coffee, only about 20 cents goes to the farmer.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists finished mapping the arabica coffee genome with the aim of raising the tree's resistance to disease and harsh weather and improving quality, a research leader said on Tuesday.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„Ha Noi (VNA) -Viet Nam will expand the acreage of Arabica coffee in regions having suitable ecological conditions in an attempt to maintain the annual coffee output ranging between 750,000-800,000 tonnes.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„The team says they discovered three arabica coffee plants that do not produce caffeine in their leaves or beans among a batch of 6,000 wild samples originally collected in the late 1980s, CRIENGLISH.com reported Thursday.“

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Glossary (#)

„ Fine, high-grown Latin American coffee is often described as mild. It is also a coffee trade term for any Arabica coffee other than those from Brazil.“

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CoffeeGeek - Delonghi Pump Driven Espresso Machines - F Scofield's Review (#)

„Easy to use.. good to very good Espresso with properly ground Arabica coffee. Would be a fine entry level machine for the novice or occasional user. Very easy to keep clean.“

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CoffeeGeek - Coffee: Home Roasting Talk, bourbon question... (#)

„if i understand it correctly, it's a varietal of arabica coffee, right? what's differences from the rest that you've explained? what's about catimor?“

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Bibliography (#)