Tea & Coffee 01/03 - A Place for Robustas in the World of Gourmet Coffees (#)
„Being home to 3 of the 5 largest Robusta exporters and producing about two thirds of their total, Asia is the continent with the most to lose or win with their fate. While the world’s biggest and most recent robusta origin is often decried, rather simplistically, as the villain who caused the present crisis, I cannot help thinking of a potentially different image, in a situation where only 1, 2 or 3% of those 15 million Vietnam bags would be sold as Gourmet coffees, fetching a 100% premium as is common with Central American milds. I imagine Indonesia achieving with its Robustas just part of what it has accomplished with other coffees, I can think of Uganda, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Thailand and others, and I know this is achievable, since India has already done it with its Raigode, and Ecuador is just showing out its Château Quinsaloma. Let us just hope that my list is too short, and that it gets longer in the next few years.“
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The generic pump-powered espresso manual - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada
„Hey, while we are at it, let's identify the two major types of coffee; arabica coffee and robusta coffee. 100% Arabica coffee is generally used in all gourmet blends. Robusta, the cheap stuff, is used in most bad-assed instant coffees and bagged-binned and tinned stuff that you buy in the superstore for $1.99. This stuff will simply NOT make good coffee, so forget about it.“
http://www.coffeecrew.com/articles/.../ the-generic-pump-powered-espresso-manual.html
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„For example, robusta coffee -- theother principal botanical species, which is used primarily in blended, canned coffees--normally has twice the caffeine content of arabica (specialty or gourmet) coffee. Afive-ounce cup of coffee will contain from 75 to 155 milligrams (.0026 to .0054 ounces) ofcaffeine, depending on the type of bean, brewing method and amount of coffee used. Thepercentage content in arabica coffee is the lowest in caffeine with 1.53%.“
http://www.koffeekorner.com/health1.htm
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CoffeeGeek - Setting the Scene for Coffee in Asia
„When I first got in contact with Mark about doing something for Coffeegeek he was immediately enthusiastic about getting a more global perspective about the gourmet coffee market. Most people probably think that outside the US and Europe, the closest Asia has come to coffee is that we produce some fine coffee in Sumatra and India and we produce some lower grade coffee from Vietnam primarily used as fillers by the large companies. And of course we have the eccentric Japanese that buy up almost the entire stock of Jamaican Blue Mountain.“
http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/coffeeasia/ 11-15-2003
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India coffee - ICTA response buoyed by domestic dealers
„Consequently, domestic dealers accounted for 60 % of the overall quantum sold today, focusing on Plantation grades like Peaberry, A and C, as also on Robusta Cherry AB. Exporters were selective for Plantation A. Two of the three more active domestic dealers were from Karnataka, Cothas and Modern, the third being the Tamil-Nadu based C Punniammal.“
http://www.indiacoffee.org/news/2004/02/ feb20.html
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„But while we are paying as much as $12 or more for a bag of conventionally traded Colombian coffee in gourmet coffee shops here in the United States, coffee exporters in Colombia are getting as little as 49 cents per pound—and the farmers who grew the coffee are only getting a fraction of that amount. That means that when we pay $1.50 for a cup of conventionally traded Colombian coffee the farmer who grew it gets less than 1¢!“
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/what_is/ columbia.htm
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