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Fresh Cup Magazine

  „If the only way you can move the coffee then appears to be discounting it, you’re losing money. Green beans, on the other hand, have more of a shelf life, so if you splurge and buy a bag of Kona coffee, you can roast it pound by pound, five pounds at a time, what have you. You can roast it to order. Your options in the case of inventory control, abound.“

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Fresh Cup Magazine

  „Imagine you're a 22-year-old "green" rookie fresh from college, and with pounding heart you show up for the first day of work at the local prestigious coffee importing firm. The cupping room will be your stomping grounds for the next year, and your senses already have a ball with the intense fragrance of some Indonesian beans and the sweet aroma of a few African coffees that were just ground and cupped by your new patrons. Innocently, you ask them where to start and all fingers point to the dirty, slimy, brown liquid that has filled up the copper spittoon.“

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CoffeeGeek - Notes from the Road - a Coffee Trip

  „The Barista comes with one of those spring loaded nightmare portafilters, guaranteed to spit out something that looks just like crema, no matter how crappy your beans are, how badly they’re ground etc. The first indication that this stuff isn’t crema is the fact that it disappears faster than the head on a warm Diet Coke. The second indication is, of course, the oh so bitter flavor of the beverage. This is in spite of ultra fresh beans (three days old) and a good vigorous tamp.“

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CoffeeGeek - Regional: Central and South America, Colombian coffee

  „I don't recall seeing Columbian espresso blends and am not sure why. Quality arabica Columbian beans can make for an excellent drip or french press coffee. Perhaps they're used in some espresso blends but the blend names don't hint at the contents?  It's typical for espresso blends to contain coffee from a variety of origins, thus allowing the blend to have the right balance of characteristics.“

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Espresso! My Espresso! An Ongoing Internet Novel - CHAPTER

  „Still, when you're low on beans, you'll take chances, so I ground, pulled, smelled the espresso, and then dumped it down the sink before I even tasted it. I mentioned that espresso should taste the way the ground coffee smells, and that's just what this was. The beans smelled old and stale- not rotten or spoiled, but they certainly lacked the heavenly perfume that fresh roasted beans possess. The espresso smelled exactly the same way- old and stale, and down the sink it went.“

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