About Roasted Coffee Beans
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„4. Inquire about the drying conditions on an estate. If they seem to have invested a significant amount of time into ensuring that they are drying the coffee properly considering the climatic conditions the coffees will generally show this in the cup. Improper drying on patios or in mechanical dryers can usually be observed visually. Rapid drying in mechanical dryers results in dull or brown coffees. Beans that are mottled (or quakers when roasted) result when the coffee is dried too quickly, spread too thin on the patios, or not rotated as frequently as recommended. Some people recommend drying on patios first to dry the skin, then transfer to mechanical dryers, and then bring the coffee back to the patios for the final drying. They believe that this helps improve color. Others send a coffee to the dryers several times while in between drying sessions they allow the coffees to rest in silos so that the moisture content of the bean can come to equilibrium. This is important since the outside of the bean will dry faster than the inside of the bean. Inquire about the temperature used on the dryers. Is it over 42°C? If so you can expect a dull or baked cup.“http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/buying.htm - Cached
Amazon.com: Kitchen & Housewares: Melitta MEMB1B Mill & Brew 10-Cup Coffeemaker, Black
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„This coffeemaker does everything but serve a steaming cup on a silver tray. For the full experience, here's how it goes: pour water into reservoir (a window gauge shows the desired level up to 10 cups); spoon roasted coffee beans into permanent stainless-steel filter basket (no disposable filters needed); program mill to grind beans as you wish (seven settings, from fine to coarse); set clock to current time of day; program timer to begin automatic grinding and brewing process at the hour and minute you wish; sleep like a baby; savor coffee precisely as you like it when you awake. Ground coffee can be used instead of whole beans, and the whole coffee-making process can be initiated instantly without setting the timer. Other attributes: dripping ceases when the tempered-glass carafe is removed from the nonstick warming plate; shutting down is automatic after one hour to prevent damage; cord stores in the rear of the unit.“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/b00004r936/.../ 103-3684834-1882209 - Cached
Brewing the Perfect Cup of Java
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„Many of us have purchased the supermarket brands of pre-ground or whole bean coffees. The problem with these coffees is you can never be too sure how long the beans sit in those chutes and, as you know, exposure to air is an enemy of freshly roasted coffee beans. I recommend your specialty coffee purveyor, not to discredit your friendly grocer, but because specialty coffee retailers are solely in the business to sell coffee beans and therefore you can be more confident their beans are fresher because they move much more rapidly than supermarket beans.“http://www.sallys-place.com/beverages/coffee/ perfect.htm - Cached
:: The Black, Black Oils ::
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„It's all to do with the "other factors." In this article, we look at one of these other factors: residual oils. Downing his espresso in one gulp, our Technical & Quality Director Ewan Reid spins into scientific action: "Roasted coffee beans, especially high roasts like a classic espresso, are oily. The oils are a positive characteristic of the roasting process but can cause problems for the unwary." Ooh,scary!Ewan continues, straight-faced. "If the barista doesn't take care to clean the portafilter and group head of the espresso machine regularly, the fresh aromatic oils from the coffee will begin to build up in these sectors." But hold on Ewan, won't that just mean that each cup of espresso we make will just taste better and better as the oils gather in the equipment?“http://www.matthewalgie.com/find_out/ lab-black2.html - Cached
Tips on Coffee - The history of coffee
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„By the 18th century, the beverage had become popular in Europe, and European colonists had introduced coffee to tropical countries worldwide as a plantation crop to supply domestic demand. During the 19th century, European demand for coffee was so strong that when genuine coffee beans were scarce, people developed similar-tasting substitutes from various roasted vegetable substances, such as chicory root, dandelion root, acorns, or figs. For example, the British used acorns as a coffee substitute during World War II while German U-boats blockaded Britain. Today, the major coffee-producing regions are tropical South America (Colombia is famous for its coffee), Vietnam, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and others.“http://www.tips-on-coffee.com/ print_version.php?s=27 - Cached
„This is the coffee bean. The seeds of this shrub, which belongs to the Madder family , are called coffee, as is the beverage made from them, produced by passing boiled water through a filter containing ground roasted coffee beans. It can be consumed warm or cold and in any of the following styles: instant, filter, cappuccino , espresso (so strong you are only allowed 5ml at any one time, and it must be served in a steel reinforced cup), mocha , latte, or any combination of these with the word 'double' attached somewhere. Some drink their coffee with cream and sugar, others with milk and sugar ; but purists claim the only way to drink a cup of 'Joe' is black...“http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/a1675 - Cached
„Coffee Time is roasted in small batches from only the highest quality coffee beans available. Our coffee is packaged and sent to you in our special valve bags to insure freshness on its journey to your coffee maker. Each bag of Coffee Time is sealed immediately after roasting it by a system that removes the oxygen from the bag.“http://www.timeforcoffee.com/coffeetime/ about.htm - Cached
„After the buyer has received the green coffee there are three major steps needed to prepare the green beans for consumption. First the beans must be roasted to just the right level to highlight any outstanding characteristics of the coffee, then the coffee must be ground relative to how it will be brewed, and lastly the freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee must be brewed at the right temperature for the correct amount of time.“http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/ preparation.htm - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„It starts in the Horn of Africa, in Ethiopia, where the coffee tree probably originated in the province of Kaffa. There are various fanciful but unlikely stories surrounding the discovery of the properties of roasted coffee beans. One story has it that an Ethiopian goatherd was amazed at the lively behaviour of his goats after chewing red coffee berries. What we know with more certainty is that the succulent outer cherry flesh was eaten by slaves taken from present day Sudan into Yemen and Arabia, through the great port of its day, Mocha, now synonymous with coffee.“http://www.ico.org/acoff/cofstor.htm - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Bean There, Roasted That, Part Two
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„Each different origin of bean responds in its own way to the roasting process. A proper light roast, (where the coffee is sweet and showing none of the grassy sourness of under roasted beans), occurs at slightly different temperature and time for each bean. I find that the method of determining the finish point that serves my temperament best is to take a ‘craftsman’s approach’. For this it is necessary to know both the technical aspects of roasting and the chemistry of the processes but the final determination is based in not only on the time/temperature of the roast and the physical look of the bean but more importantly by the smell of the bean.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/terrym/ 01-13-2002 - Cached
View topic - Air roasted or drum roasted? - Coffee Forum
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„As with most arguments, there are two sides and this one certainly has spirit on each. Some of the best coffees and espressos I've ever tasted came from drum roasted beans. The coffee that was quite possibly the very best I've had was at an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony - roasted in a beat up bent old skillet on a gas stove and then crushed into rather inconsitently sized particles in a mortar and pestle before being steeped and served. My point being that with the right technique being employed by a person who has the passion and desire to produce excellent results....“http://www.coffeeforums.com/ viewtopic.php?t=579&start=15 - Cached
Tea & Coffee 06/01 - What’s Brewing In Specialty Retail?
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„Allegro provides training for the store’s staff, and the roasted coffee beans, sold out of a bin, are dated to ensure that they are not more than seven days old. Allegro knows that the best way to ensure a fresh cup of coffee is to purchase whole bean coffee weekly and grind it just before brewing, so they make sure their coffee will always be able to fit this criteria. In his book, Coffee Basics, Knox gets into great detail and is adamant about brewing methods consumers should use at home to extract the best taste possible.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0601/retail.htm - Cached
Café Forum | India Coffee Companies
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„Featuring 100% Kona Coffee and 100% Jamaican Blue Mountain direct from the estate. Our unique arrangements include shipping direct from estate to you anywhere in Asia - K-13/30, Dlf Qutab Enclave-2, Gurgaon, Haryana-122002 INDIA - Tel: +91-98100-55848 - Fax: +91-124-351 945 - Email: angusint@rocketmail.com Return to Menu Chennai JEEVA Coffee Works Roasted coffee beans and ground coffee powder under the brand name "JEEVA COFFEE." Suppliers of raw coffee seeds also. - NO. 28, B.V.“http://www.lucidcafe.com/cafebystate/ indiaforum.html - Cached
„Our coffee beans are packed in bags with clever one-way valves that work to keep the precious coffee fresh. Ewan gets technical again: "Each kilo of roasted coffee beans can produce up to 10 litres of gas. primarily CO2, depending on roast height and blend composition." Ewan continues "Packaging coffee beans is like bottling champagne, except in reverse." How so? "With champagne, you need to keep the fizz in - with coffee, you have to let the gas out.“http://www.matthewalgie.com/find_out/ lab-valvor.html - Cached
Tips on Coffee - Quality of coffee?
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„(See note below). FactOnce you have freshly roasted and ground coffee, filtered water and equipment free of oil residues from the last brew, quality of beans makes a huge difference. NOTEA coffee can in the supermarket often contains a blend of Arabica and robusta beans while most coffee houses sell only arabica beans. Arabica beans are usually flavour rich, while robusta beans have more caffeine, less flavour and are cheaper to produce.“http://www.tips-on-coffee.com/ print_version.php?s=89 - Cached
Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Coffee Chemistry
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„The plenary talk with the methods and steps to be taken to assure the quality of coffee until packaging and also thrown light on the mechanical methods for rapid assurance of requisite quality. The remaining presentations covered the areas of chemical composition of coffee beans, effect of controlled storage on the lipid fraction of green arabica coffee beans and a new method Raman spectroscopy for traceability of green and roasted coffee, in the commercial lots.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/oct/ coffee_chemistry.html - Cached
„"Per cent coffee by weight" means the percentage calculated by dividing the weight in pounds of roasted green coffee beans of one geographic or regional origin used in a production run of roasted or instant coffee, by the total weight in pounds of the roasted green coffee beans used in that production run of roasted or instant coffee, and multiplying the quotient by one hundred.“http://www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org/truthbill.htm - Cached
Coffee History - Learn about coffee...
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„This means the coffee is basically sorted by size, shape and imperfections. It is important to grade the coffee well so that small and large beans are not roasted together When this occurs the small beans burn and the large beans do not receive their proper roast. Café Britt grades its coffee to specifications which exceed the national grading system. The coffee is now ready to roast.“http://www.javacafe.com/cofhistory02.htm - Cached
Virtual Coffee: Educational Primer
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„Coffee (and espresso) extraction takes water-soluble substances from the coffee beans,and emulsifies insoluble oils present in the roasted coffee. Because each degree of roast(light, medium, dark and everything in between) and individual roasting styles createdifferent and unique coffees, one must marry the set up of the brewing and grindingequipment to the general taste expected from any coffee.“http://www.virtualcoffee.com/may/educate.html - Cached
Cafe´ de Colombia - ROASTS
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„Roasting plays no part in determining the strength of a cup of coffee: you do when determining the amount of water and coffee to be used when brewing. Lightly roasted coffee beans have a sharper, more acidic taste than darker roasts. The coffee suffers less heat exposure, which maintains the bean's qualities. Because flavor is revealed, light roasts are used with higher quality beans.“http://www.juanvaldez.com/menu/preparation/ roasts.html - Cached
Indiacoffee - Indian Coffee, Monthly magazine - Cover Story - The Art of Roasting: The Probat Way
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„Taking note of this, M/s Probat have so designed their machines that they can operate effectively with the available gas in our country, without a drop in the efficiency of output. Added, many of our roasters in India prefer the cooling of roasted coffee beans by air rather than through water quenching. Accordingly, the Probat machines have been designed. Today, the Indian market requires small sized roasters at affordable prices.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/5/ artofroast.html - Cached
„A poor quality flavoured coffee may smell great, but it won't have much taste. If you enjoy flavoured coffee, at least get some that has been made from well-roasted, quality beans.“http://www.timeforcoffee.com/coffeetime/ kinds.asp - Cached
Indiacoffee - Indian Coffee, Monthly magazine - Cover Story - Roaster-retailers: May their tribe increase!
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„Yet, all over the world, it is widely acknowledged that the purchase of roasted beans/R&G powder is a sign of a mature coffee consuming market and the gravitation towards gourmet coffee retailers in North America, Europe and Japan would tend to confirm that. It is estimated that in the U.S. small roasters account for 50 per cent of the trade in specialty coffees.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/5/ roaster-retailers.html - Cached
Coffee Pod Questions and Answers
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„The SENSEO® coffee is not the same as an espresso. Espresso is a strong coffee brewed by quickly forcing hot water through darkly roasted, finely ground, coffee beans. SENSEO® coffee grounds are not as finely ground. The mode of filtration is also different and explains why the taste of SENSEO® is more like filtered coffee.“http://www.senseo.com/en/senseous/serviceandsupport/faqs/coffeepodqa/ - Cached
Supermarket Coffee vs. Specialty Store Coffee
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„Second, from the moment you open your bag of freshly roasted beans you will begin a multi-sensual coffee experience. Your eyes will first see the rich-looking, oily beans. Your nose will draw in the fragrances which can range from sweet florals, berries or citrus to sweet spiciness.“http://www.sallys-place.com/beverages/coffee/ supermarket.htm - Cached
„First of all, to make good coffee you’ve got to have properly blended and roasted coffee beans. BuSandA takes care of this by supplying ships and stations with the finest blended and roasted coffee obtainable. Just to make certain it’s done right, the Navy operates its own coffee roasting plants.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/ brewing_coffee_in_the_navy.htm - Cached
Café de Colombia - perfect
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„It's slightly more expensive, but contains less caffeine than blends that combine arabica and robusta beans. * Roasted coffee beans start to lose some of their flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in minutes. Freezing is not necessary to maintain the flavor.“http://www.juanvaldez.com/menu/preparation/ perfect.html - Cached
„Espresso is simply a blend of coffee beans based on the blender's taste; the blend at one store will differ from one down the street. Although the blends often contain dark roasted coffee, they also might contain other beans to balance and round out flavors.“http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ courierjournal.html - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„In the 'Swiss water process', the green beans are immersed in water and the resulting extract passed over activated carbon to remove the caffeine, as above. The caffeine-free mixture is then added to the partially dried coffee beans before they are fully dried and roasted.“http://www.ico.org/acoff/caffeine.htm - Cached
„The choice of a good blend of Espresso coffee constitutes the first step in this ritual. The coffee beans must have been roasted under the correct conditions so that they achieve a balance between flavour, aroma and body. Buy your Espresso coffee from a specialist supplier.“http://www.briel.pt/eng/brinet3_f.html - Cached
BBC - German Steps - Coffee and cake
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„However, if coffee is too watery, Germans will refer to it disparagingly as der Blümchenkaffee, small flower coffee. This derives from war time when coffee was scarce and real beans were substituted with the roasted roots of chicory, which has a small blue flower.“http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/cultural_notes/ coffee.shtml - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Bean There, Roasted That, Part Three
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„The previous segment, part two , left off with us inhaling the aroma from the freshly roasted coffee beans. Yes that might be enough to satisfy some, but most of us also want to drink the coffee too. Grinding the beans and brewing a cup will complete the process.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/terrym/ 01-28-2002 - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Roasted coffee beans constitute a natural package for the volatile, delicate oils that supply coffee's aroma and flavor. Storing coffee in whole-bean form and grinding it immediately before brewing is a first and essential step to experiencing it at its peak.“http://www.coffeereview.com/ reference.cfm?id=158 - Cached
„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.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/26to50.htm - Cached
India coffee - Indian Coffee, monthly magazine - Cover story, The US coffee Market, Dr.S.Radhakrishnan April 2003,
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„In 2001, the value of arabica and robusta green coffee imports respectively were $1.2 billion and $721 million. Of the total import basket of coffee, green coffee shared 90% while roasted beans and solubles shared 4% and 6% respectively (Table.1).“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2003/april/ cover_story.html - Cached
„ Coffee Coeur à la Crème These pretty heart-shaped creams, speckled with espresso-roasted coffee beans, are served with a fresh fruit sauce. Use wild strawberries, if available, for their wonderful perfume. Serves six: Ingredients“http://www.briel.pt/eng/doces.html - Cached
„each) of Capresso's GRAND AROMA coffee beans. (Grand Aroma beans are specially roasted and blended in Switzerland for exceptional crema coffees and espressos. Your choice of Regular, Decaf and Espresso Roast.)“http://www.capresso.com/prod_super_f9g.html - Cached
„A taste taint giving coffee brew a pronounced peanutty flavor. Result of the presence of light colored, underdeveloped, roasted coffee beans. Caused by picking unripe, green, coffee cherries during harvesting.“http://www.lucidcafe.com/glossary.html - Cached
„87. Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Groundcoffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to loseflavor within minutes.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/76-100.htm - Cached
„We pride ourselves on providing the freshest roasted beans and ground coffee. But even the best coffee is useless to you if it isn't kept as fresh as possible. That's why packaging is so important.“http://www.matthewalgie.com/find_out/ lab-perils.html - Cached
Espresso! My Espresso! An Ongoing Internet Novel - CHAPTER
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„Roasted, gassing coffee smells good. Ground coffee does not necessarily smell like the roasted beans before they were ground. Bad smelling grounds make bad coffee.“http://home.surewest.net/frcn/coffee/ coffee21.html - Cached
Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com
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„Coffee as we know it kicked off in Arabia, where roasted beans were first brewed around A.D. 1000. By the 13th century Muslims were drinking coffee religiously.“http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/ legend2.html - Cached
Coffee: Resources for home espresso
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„Six Drydock Avenue, Boston, MA 02210.Beans and accessories. A deep equipment selection hasbeen scaled back;Coffee Connection beans are now roasted in York, PA.“http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/coffee.html - Cached
Global Exchange : Coffee with a conscience sells
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„And recently, Cafi Justo got an order for 2,000 pounds of roasted coffee beans from a California-based grocery store chain.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 1239.html - Cached
„Show them how to use it by holding a demonstration. Reveal the wonders of home-roasted coffee with your beans.“http://www.freshcup.com/atoz_accessories.htm - Cached