CoffeeGeek - Coffee Crisis: TechnoServe Releases Fact-Based Industry Analysis (#)
„TechnoServe estimates that the effort to convert 2.6 million bags of commercial coffee to specialty coffee would cost approximately $50 million over a 5-year period, in order to: assess roaster needs; identify potential farmers; provide technical and business assistance; facilitate access to financing; and provide industry-level support.3 The effort would focus on supplying the gourmet/high-quality segment of the specialty market (which now comprises 93% of all specialty coffee sold), followed by Fair Trade-certified and other certified coffees, like organic, shade-grown and bird-friendly (currently 7% of all specialty coffee sold). Specialty initiatives should focus on Central America, Colombia, East Africa and Mexico, which together account for 86% of all specialty coffees produced in 2002.4“
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CoffeeGeek - Swissmar Alpenrost First Look
„The Swissmar (website ) Alpenrost is a product that many home roasters and almost as many small professional roasters anticipated. Before it came to market, there was no viable half pound roaster available to the public for a price below $1,000, and the ones hovering around that price point were more often than not based on air roasting technology. The Alpenrost is a drum roaster, using electrical heating coils to do its job, and that made it highly desirable.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/proreviews/firstlook/ alpenrost
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CoffeeGeek - Guild for Coffee Roasting Professionals Announces Apprenticeship Program
„The educational program will coordinate the collaborative efforts of The Roasters Guild and The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) and present a curriculum for coffee roasting, product testing, manufacturing, farming and processing, and other coffee related topics. These educational lessons will be presented at Roasters Guild events and at SCAA conferences in the form of seminars, lectures, workshops, and also self-directed home study. The course syllabus will be presented in graduating levels of challenge with a logical progression of basic classes as prerequisites for advanced topics.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/resources/pressreleases/ scaajuly32003
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„I have a Fresh roast plus 8 .If you have a decent exhaust fan in your kitchen you may get away with the FR+8. It does produce some smoke but you may also want to open a window if nearby.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/homeroast/ 103749
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„Coffee Technology by Michael Sivetz and Norman DeRosier isn'tvery pertintent to the needs of specialty coffee roasters or the home roaster,but the accompanying mini-book called Coffee Quality is very interesting.It's passionately biased and verges on being a cut-n-paste revolutionarytract!“
http://www.sweetmarias.com/reading.html
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