BBC News | BUSINESS | Globalisation and me (#)

„there are two types of coffee: Robusta (which is used in instant coffee and only grows below 1500 meters) and Arabica (which is a finer coffee which only grows above 1500 meters). 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.“
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It's All About Coffee (#)

„For El Salvador's 2004 Cup® event, a total of 403 Arabica samples were submitted by coffee growers from around the country by the April 2 deadline. From April 12-16, a jury of 14 national coffee experts tasted (or "cupped") the coffees and selected 153 of the nation's finest green beans to advance to this second stage of the competition. Following this week's "cuppings," on Friday, May 14 the 20 member international jury will select the "best of the best" green beans to receive the coveted "Cup of Excellence®" award. These winning coffees will be offered for sale to international roasters during a special Internet auction on June 22.“
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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„The coffee industry promptly responded by replacing trichloroethylene with methylene chloride, a solvent not implicated in the National Cancer Institute study. So far tests of methylene chloride have not linked it to any known disease, and given its volatility (it vaporizes at 104° F; coffee is roasted at over 400° F for at least 15 minutes, then brewed at 200° F) it seems hardly possible that any of the 1 part per million occasionally found in the green beans could end up in the consumer's cup or stomach.“
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It's All About Coffee (#)

„Your supplier of green decaf should be able to tell you the average remaining in theirs. In an attempt to assuage fears, it is pointed out that the FDA limit relates to green coffee beans, and methylene chloride is quite volatile when exposed to heat -- it vaporizes at 104øF. After the beans are roasted (400øF) and brewed (200øF), there's only a trace of methylene chloride left...if any.“
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„That’s the market that has made business possible for small specialty coffee bean roasters like Dean’s Beans, based in Massachusetts, and Café Campesino based in Georgia, and 12 others that make up the membership of Cooperative Coffees, a new green coffee importing co-op.“
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Tea & Coffee 04/04 - Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: Doing Well by Doing Good (#)

„Yet Fair Trade is not the only way Green Mountain helps coffee farmers, as Bob Stiller is quick to point out to critics who insist that GMCR should sell only Fair Trade beans. “There are other farms that don’t meet the coop certification standards for TransFair but which treat their workers well, try to help the environment, and generally do good things,” Stiller says. “So it isn’t Fair Trade or nothing.“
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CoffeeGeek - Coffee: Home Roasting Talk, Dog ever eat your green beans? (#)

„A few months back I joked that I could put green coffee beans through my labrador and sell them as simulated kopi luwack, if they fetched $700 a lb.  As fate would have it my lab actually got up on the table and ate 1/2 cup of greens this evening. She often picks up the occasional stray bean that falls on the deck, but this was a lot.“
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CoffeeGeek - Coffee: Home Roasting Talk, Andrews Green Beans (#)

„There's also been threads on alt.coffee about "Green beans in the Toronto Area", & a Google search on Google groups will turn up some info.“
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View topic - Quality green coffee beans - Coffee Forum (#)

„For great green beans in small quantities, try www.sweetmarias.com they are in CA, but really know their coffees.“
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