Processing Coffee (#)

„Irrespective of the harvesting method, green coffee beans and overripe coffee cherries inevitably end up mixed with the perfectly ripe cherries and must be separated.  Overripe coffee cherries, undeveloped coffee cherries, sticks and leaves float in water.  Ripe coffee beans and green coffee cherries are dense and sink.  Therefore, the first separation step takes place by separating the floaters from the sinkers.  The floaters are usually sent directly to the patio to be dried and are then slated for internal consumption.  The ripe and green cherries can be sent to the patios to be dried using the natural (dry) process or can be sent to the pulping machines.“

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Café Forum | Coffee Importers (#)

„- #24 Alley 12, Lane 112, Lin Seng Road, Yung Ho City, Taipei, Taiwan - Tel: +886 - 22927-3568 - Fax: +886 - 22928-9609 - Email: sales@billiecafe.com - Url: www.BillieCafe.com Shanghai Mikerego International Co. Ltd High quality Burundian green coffee beans sold through auction. We operate mainly in Asia-Pacific region and sell a minimum amount of 18,000 kg loaded in a 20 foot containers - Hongmei Road, Lane 3330, Bloc 10 Rm 602, Shanghai - Tel: 86-21-64069864 - Fax: 86-21-64069864 - Email: rubeya@online.sh.cn Denmark Dansk Kaffekompagni a/s - Albertslund All-round coffee and tea merchant: import, roasting, grinding, packing, warehousing, selling and export. - Roskildevej 25 a, Albertslund, DK 2620 - Tel: (45) 43 86 40 19 - Fax: (45) 43 86 40 09 - Email: danskkaffe@fdb.dk - Url: www.danskkaffe.dk France Ould Belkacem/Algeria Robusta Coffee - Aix Les Bians Represent importers of Algeria Robusta Coffee - 6 Rue Davat, Aix Les Bians, 73100, France - Tel: 33.6.80.32.18.42 - Fax: 33.4.79.88.47.36 - Email: kaki@infonie.fr Georgia (Republic of) SaCo Ltd.“

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What Goes Up Might Come Down? (#)

„I proceed to learn that green coffee is traded in a free market, which means that the price will fluctuate according to supply and demand. Regarding that supply, both the planting and harvesting schedules chosen by coffee farmers will affect the availability of green beans in the marketplace. A tree planted by a farmer today will not yield a crop for another three to five years, so coffee growers have to be both agronomist and seer. It stands to reason that coffee growers want to plant only to the extent that their harvest will be a profitable one, so tracking the trends in coffee consumption as well as the global coffee yields become key considerations when deciding how much to plant.“

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Kopi Luwak (#)

„Mountanos to cup some Kopi with Andrew Vournas. The green beans, which range from tiny to elephant, have a faint smell that hints of a zoo or stables -- a little funky, not your average coffee aroma. He lightly roasts about 21 grams, enough beans for three cups, in a Jabez Burns two barrel sample roaster, a rare and beautiful machine dating from the '30s. Vournas gives the beans a light roast -- just after the second popping -- to accentuate the specific flavors of this rare coffee; a darker roast would obliterate the subtler flavors and replace them with a more generic taste.“

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clamor (#)

„A: It’s a demand problem, not a supply problem. Bill Harris, president of Cooperative Coffees, says, “The current supply of fairly traded green beans is estimated to be at least five times larger than the current demand. Conventional coffee roasters and importers will not buy this excess supply unless conscious consumers get involved and help make fair trade standards the standard for the coffee industry. Most coffee companies will only commit to fair trade when their customers demand it.”“

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Virtual Coffee: Feature Articles (#)

„First, flowers and straw are laid out on a rug or mat on the grounds. A lovely earthenware coffee pot is heated over hot coals, in addition to the green coffee beans, which are carefully roasted in a pan. The beans are then crushed with a pestle-like instrument and placed in the clay pot of boiling water. After the coffee has steeped it is poured into small cups and the youngest child present often serves the coffee, first to the eldest person, then to the other family members and friends.“

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Global Exchange : 442.html (#)

„As Oxfam notes, and this country's biggest supplier of beans to gourmet roasters, John Burton, is quick to reinforce, it's instant coffee that's the real problem, not café coffee. "You see, a farmer producing good-quality coffee is getting a much, much better return," says Burton, whose company, John Burton Ltd., imports 30,000 bags of green beans a year and supplies 70 mostly tiny coffee roasters nationwide. "But it's the farmer producing just the average, low-quality grounds that these people (the huge roasters) buy—that's where it should be addressed."“

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

„Traditional Process, European Process.  A group of decaffeination methods that use solvents to remove caffeine from green coffee beans. The direct solvent method involves treating the beans with solvent, which selectively unites with the caffeine and is removed from the beans by steaming. The indirect solvent or solvent-water method involves soaking the green beans in hot water, removing the caffeine from the hot water by means of a solvent, and recombining the water with the beans, which are then dried. “

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Amazon.com: Books: The Birth of Coffee (#)

„"To tell the story of coffee is to tell much about the nature of humankind....The story of coffee rests in the faces of these people--in their labor, in their lives, in their hands." In Ethiopia, women ring a huge mound of green coffee beans, picking through them rapidly and tossing inferior beans into shallow metal bowls. While they work, they sing, as they have for many centuries of sorting. In the evenings, they roast beans and brew strong, sweet coffee in long-necked clay vessels called jebenas.“

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Caffeine and The Bean (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„In this article, I'll explain the essential aspects of the chemical removal process then I'll discuss a specific variation of the chemical process termed the Super Critical Carbon Dioxide method. A Common Denominator In all of the decaffeination processes, the green coffee beans begin the journey by being steamed and/or soaked in water. This makes the caffeine soluble and primed for extraction. The Swiss Water Process Method The Swiss Water Process is popular among its advocates because it does not use chemicals.“

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Fresh Cup Magazine April 2002 (#)

„Some are roaster/retailers, others are roaster/wholesalers, but all are small-sized operations that are committed to selling sustainable coffees. Like any non-profit co-op, Cooperative Coffees has officers and a board of directors, and recently, it formed several committees to oversee critical aspects of the group: membership, finance and green beans.“

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Evaluation of Green Coffee Samples (#)

„Knowing the origin of the green coffee beans, is only the beginning of a long list of properties needed to be known about the coffee beans being considered for purchase. Although, history and tradition can be important factors in the purchase of this agricultural commodity; in the final analysis, it is the roasted bean taste that finalizes the purchase decision. There are so many intervening factors that can alter a potentially sound choice, e.g.“

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Coffee farmers 'face destitution' (#)

„However, the BCA - which represents coffee manufactuers selling in the UK - says Oxfam "fails to address the fundamental economics of the coffee market in the long term". "Increasing prices of green coffee beans without implementing appropriate controls on production would not help the livelihood of the growers in producing countries in the longer term," the BCA argued in a press release. Click here to return“

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The Coffee Mill (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„Without optimum conditions, mills typically do not invest in infrastructure. For instance, there is no selective harvesting of the beans, and a tendency to mix coffee grains (unripe beans with green coffee beans). Also, inappropriate handling of beans when drying, or heaping the coffee beans, causes fermentation and eventually mold. This results in bitter coffee.“

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

„After having cupped excellent reader-nominated coffees for the last two issues of Coffee Review, I thought it might be a good idea to give the professionals who actually buy the green beans and roast them a shot at picking the coffees for a review, unhampered by the usual theme-oriented restrictions -- this month we are reviewing Guatemalas, this month breakfast blends, and on into the Coffee Review sunset.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„The wet method requires the use of specific equipment and substantial quantities of water. When properly done, it ensures that the intrinsic qualities of the coffee beans are better preserved, producing a green coffee which is homogeneous and has few defective beans. Hence, the coffee produced by this method is usually regarded as being of better quality and commands higher prices.“

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

„It would seem to me that these Fair-Trade-oriented roasters ought to pursue the opposite roasting strategy. Given that their business is based on foregrounding and dignifying the achievements of those hard-working farmers who actually produce the green coffee beans, perhaps they ought to roast these green beans in a way that best foregrounds the farmers' contribution to the cup rather than their own.“

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CoffeeKid - The Current Setup (#)

„In fact, many instances of failures are due to operator error - in other words, people who don't RTFM. The HWP is designed to roast between 80 and 85 grams of green coffee, though you should vary this a bit for denser or lighter beans. It features an intelligent roasting profile built into the microprocessor, a profile that loosely follows the SCAA's recommended roasting levels of heat application at specific times in the roast.“

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CoffeeGeek - Bean There, Roasted That, Part One (#)

„The roastmaster concerns himself primarily with the intermediate steps in this journey, the selection and acquiring of green coffees, the roasting of the beans and the blending process. Part 1 of this article will deal with green beans, Part 2, roasting and blending, will follow later.  This will be an overview intended as general information for the coffee novice.“

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- Coffee Science Information Centre (#)

„The coffee tree is a tropical evergreen shrub (genus Coffea), and two beans are generally contained in each fruit, which when ripe resembles a red cherry. The two most commercially important species grown are varieties of Coffea canephora (robustas) and Coffea arabica (arabicas). The latter grows at higher altitudes, requires less rain, and its beans have a lower caffeine content than that of robustas.“

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Tea & Coffee 06/04 - Coffee as Health Food? (#)

„Probably the best kept secret about coffee is that it delivers more antioxidants than even the latest antioxidant bellwether, green tea. Green coffee beans contain about 1,000 antioxidants, and the brewing process adds 300 more. The roasting process, by the way, creates its own set of healthful compounds which, like some antioxidants, are unique to coffee alone.“

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PR Coffee Crisis (#)

„The price for green coffee beans, the worlds most widely traded commodity after oil, has hit its lowest level in 100 years. For small farmers, who grow over half of the world’s crop, the situation has gone from difficult to catastrophic. A two-year slump in prices – from $1.45 in December 1999 to 45 cents today – has created an ongoing economic disaster in dozens of developing countries.“

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We've Seen the Future..It's Organic! (#)

„This process also ensures that more healthy compounds are preserved in the end roast. "Chlorogenic and phenolic compounds, which are present in green coffee beans, tend to be destroyed in fast-roasting," says Sachs, and it is these very compounds which act as healthful anti-oxidants in the body.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„Our quest is to search out the best super premium green coffees and green coffee beans available. We are less concerned about providing a long menu of huge selections, but rather, a carefully selected offering of world class coffees, at affordable prices, that will enhance your home coffee roaster experience.“

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Fresh Cup Magazine (#)

„Some are roaster/retailers, others are roaster/wholesalers, but all are small-sized operations that are committed to selling sustainable coffees. Like any non-profit co-op, Cooperative Coffees has officers and a board of directors, and recently, it formed several committees to oversee critical aspects of the group: membership, finance and green beans.“

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:: Dealing With Decaf :: (#)

„If you like that sort of thing. Caffeine removalCaffeine moves from green coffee beans to water. Water RecycledWater drains out to be reused after being carbon flitered, leaving decaffeinated coffee beans. Carbon FilterRemoval of caffeine from flavour charged water.“

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Coffee History - Learn about coffee... (#)

„Coffee trees are grown from seeds which are essentially green coffee beans (with the parchment left on). The seedlings are planted about 3 feet apart from each other. It takes about 4 years for a coffee tree to bear its first fruit.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„Decaffeination processes basically involve treating the green coffee beans with a solvent, then removing the caffeine-laden solvent from the beans. The three types of decaffeination method in commercial use today involve either:“

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

„during the American Civil War the Union soldiers were issued eight pounds of ground roasted coffee as part of their personal ration of one hundred pounds of food. And they had another choice: ten pounds of green coffee beans.“

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Coffee Glossary (#)

„A taste fault in the coffee beans producing a highly displeasing sour sensation on the tongue. The result of enzyme activity in the green coffee beans changing the sugars to acids in the drying process during harvesting.“

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Coffee Equipment Links (#)

„Supplier of several excellent home roasters at great prices.  Green coffee beans and coffee plants are also sold at Coffee Project.“

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BSCA - BSCA Certified Roasted Coffees - SPRESS CAFÉ (#)

„Decaf: This coffee pass through a decaffeination process where the still green beans are washed in order to remove the caffeine until almost none is left (Max. 0,06%). After this process the beans are normally roasted.“

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Amazon.com: Gourmet Food: Guatemala "Antigua" Coffee, 1-lb Whole Beans (Green Coffee Beans. Require Roasting.) (#)

„GREEN COFFEE BEANS. REQUIRE ROASTING. Grown in the Antigua district at high altitudes in rich volcanic soil, this coffee is distinguishable by its heavy body, and a lively cup with subtle smoky spicy overtones.“

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The Value Of Coffee - National Coffee Association (#)

„Approximately two-and-a-half years after transplantation, the trees begin to flower and the flowers produce a small fruit known as a coffee cherry.  In the center of each cherry are two green coffee beans.“

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BSCA - Web Links (#)

„The Coffee Hunter searches out the finest estates from all continents. We aim to supply any coffee you want and we keep a wide variety of green beans in stock for immediate supply.“

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Global Exchange : Starbucks' green credentials come under scrutiny (#)

„Starbucks has also upped the quantities of Fair Trade coffee it buys. To purchase Fair Trade coffee, a buyer must pay a minimum of $1.26 per pound for green arabica beans.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Coffee Roasting at Home (Magic Bean Coffee Books) (#)

„Roasting coffee at home is easy and fun to do. Using high quality green beans you can quickly create a roast to surpass specialty coffee roasts.“

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CoffeeKid - Falling out of the SCAA, and Green Coffee in Canada (#)

„And here's the best one! A regular CoffeeGeek member, Craig Andrews, has recently gotten into a "hobbyist" green coffee merchant role. It's very much Craig working out of his home, but his prices are awesome.“

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JAMA -- Table of Contents (Vol. 247 No. 1, January 1, 1982) (#)

„Green coffee beans may solve a blood bank problem V. Cowart JAMA. 1982;247:12.“

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Coffee Beans & Espresso Beans - Coffee Forum (#)

„Quality green coffee beans “

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CoffeeKid - Ramping up to SCAA 2004 - and More! (#)

„Craig's sitting on this coffee right now, and will let it go for a great price in Cdn funds. If you home roast, and want one of the most amazing coffees on the planet, Visit Craig's site and enquire!“

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Web Links - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„ The green Beanery “

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