The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)
„Most fine coffee goes through a battery of machines that sort the coffee by density of bean and by bean size, all the while removing sticks, rocks, nails, and miscellaneous debris that may have become mixed with the coffee during drying. First machines blow the beans into the air; those that fall into bins closest to the air source are heaviest and biggest; the lightest (and likely defective) beans plus chaff are blown in the farthest bin. Other machines shake the beans through a series of sieves, sorting them by size. Finally, an ingenious machine called a gravity separator shakes the sized beans on a tilted table, so that the heaviest, densest and best vibrate to one side of the pulsating table, and the lightest to the other.“
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„Roasted whole coffee beans keep fairly well. The bean itself is a protective package, albeit a fragile one. Stored in a dry, airtight container to prevent contamination or contact with moisture, roasted whole-bean coffee holds its flavor and aroma for about a week.“
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„As I often point out, we enjoy coffees that are the equivalent in quality of the world's finest wines at the price of cheap cola. Consider that most fine coffees are artisan products: hand-picked, bean by bean, usually hand-cleaned bean by bean, and subject to nine additional complex, labor-intensive procedures. Given that attention and care, it would seem that coffee ought to sell for a bit more than it does -- say, at least as much as a decent table wine. The reason we enjoy fine-wine coffee at soda-pop prices is simple: Most of those people who grow coffee live in abject poverty, and have no economic recourse except either to grow coffee for a pittance or live in a slum and sell chewing gum to tourists.Nor is this sad situation the product of blatant corporate greed.“
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„Hard Bean. Term often used to describe coffees grown at relatively high altitudes; in the same context, coffees grown at lower altitudes are often designated Soft Bean. The higher altitudes and lower temperatures produce a slower maturing fruit and a harder, less porous bean. Hard bean coffees usually make a more acidy and more flavorful cup than do soft bean coffees, although there are many exceptions to this generalization. The hard bean/soft bean distinction is used most frequently in evaluating coffees of Central America, where it figures in grade descriptions. “
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„Nevertheless, I would argue Starbucks deserves considerable credit for its efforts to preserve and excel in that tiny, tiny part of its business still devoted to specialty whole bean coffee. After all, Starbucks is a corporation that long ago could have turned itself entirely into a chain of coffee flavored malt shops for grown-ups, probably without losing a nickel for its stockholders. But someone at headquarters appears determined to keep plugging along with specialty whole bean coffee in the face of a customer base made up largely (it would seem) of herds of latte lappers and straw-sucking frappuccino lovers.“
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CoffeeGeek - Bodum Santos Electronic - Tarik Ghbeish's Review
„Unlike other reviewers, I've had no problems making 4 cups amounts (which seems to make just enough coffee for my morning) and I was able to use it non-stop through at least pound or so of beans at a memorial service where I was asked to make the coffee.“
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