Café Forum | Virginia Coffee Companies (#)

„- 11836 Lee Highway, PO Box 252, Sperryville, VA 22740 - Tel: 540 987-1006 - Fax: 540 987-1007 - Email: centralcoffee@summit.net - Url: www.centralcoffee.com Return to Menu   Coffee Growers/Processors Virginia Universal Business Group, Inc. - Vienna Producer/Wholesaler of green (unroasted) coffee. Our Robusta Grade 1 coffee grown on the Southeast Asia high mountains. U.S importers, please contact us - 563 Malcolm Road NW, Vienna, VA 22180 - Telephone: 703-281-6176 - Fax: 703-281-6339 - Email: ct-ubgi@worldnet.att.net Return to Menu   Importers Springfield CMI Services Ethiopian Coffee grown by small producers under our direction.“

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Tea & Coffee 05/02 - World News (#)

„“A drop in prices on green beans in New York basically cannot effect the value of finished product in Russia,” Interfax quoted Alexander Malchik, president of the Russian Coffee Producers Union and the company Montana Coffee, which owns a roasting plant in Moscow, as saying. The proportion of unroasted beans in the value of finished product is sufficiently small. “Just suppose, if the value of finished product is $60 million, the proportion of green beans here does not exceed $five million. If there is some kind of price change, it would be no earlier than in half a year,” he said.“

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

„Notes: No decaffeination method is indicated, suggesting this coffee was decaffeinated by the conventional method, using a solvent that selectively unites with the caffeine before being steamed out of the green, unroasted beans. Any small residues of solvent surviving the steaming presumably are driven out during roasting. For every pound of whole-bean Sumatra or Sumatra Decaf sold in the month of January 2005 Starbucks will donate $2 or the equivalent in local currency to aid agencies benefiting victims of the December 2004 tsunami.“

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Global Exchange : newsweek062501.html (#)

„Drinking exotic coffee may be the new national pastime, but producers are fighting off one serious caffeine headache. In the past year, overproduction has caused the price of unroasted coffee to plunge more than 40 percent, devastating the small farmers who produce most of the world's crop. In Colombia, some predict destitute farmers will turn to growing coca or poppies, and the plight has even created coffee refugees. The 14 Mexican migrants who died crossing the Arizona border a few weeks ago were mostly failed coffee pickers.“

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Amazon.com: Books: Coffee : A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Fifth Edition (#)

„Today, the sorts of inexpensive, easy-to-use home roasters he long for in the book are finally available but not covered. A quick update could correct information on roaster availability (it's easier than you think, and easier than he says), and sources for unroasted beans (some of his are out of date, and some good ones aren't noted at all). Still, if you want to get started with home roasting, this remains the best book to own. And if you just love coffee, it's a fine second or third book to put on the shelf.“

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

„These coffees were purchased by American roasting companies via Internet auction at often dramatically higher prices than prevailing for even the most premium of specialty coffees. The Los Delirios Nicaragua reviewed here, for example, the first-place prize winner in the 2004 Nicaragua competition, was purchased at auction for $12.50 per pound green (unroasted) by two American roasting companies willing to put their money where their mouths are in support of artisan farmers and their distinctive coffees.“

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

„In the direct solvent process, or European process, unroasted green beans are steamed in a rotating drum for about a half hour to open the pores of the beans. The beans are then repeatedly rinsed directly with a solvent, typically methylene chloride or ethyl acetate, for up to 12 hours, during which time the caffeine is extracted from the beans. Next, the beans are removed from the solvent (or vice versa) and steamed for another eight to twelve hours to evaporate the majority of the remaining solvent.“

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The Value Of Coffee - National Coffee Association (#)

„Here is something else you may not know about coffee – before being roasted, coffee beans are green. Unroasted coffee -- known in the industry as green coffee -- is sold as a commodity on the world market. The cost of coffee is, therefore, affected by anything that alters the worldwide supply, such as drastic weather conditions like freezing temperatures or drought. But even with occasional price increases, coffee is still inexpensive,  especially compared to the cost of other beverages.“

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Cupping: The Elements of Quality Coffee (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„The Capulin representative was more than generous and willing to provide a sample from last year's crop of the Capulin coffee. The sample, unroasted, was to be pitted against an earlier crop of the same as well as a new crop of a washed Mexican coffee bean. The purpose of the comparison was to not only find character traits of each, but also to show the differences between similar species coffee. Additionally, I was comparing two dry-processed coffee to a washed coffee.“

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Tea & Coffee 10/03 - Cashing in on Accoutrements Caché (#)

„Home roasting, for example, offers consumers an opportunity to try their craft in creating their own blend. Consequently, retailers increase sales by offering green, unroasted beans as part of the package, something department stores are ill equipped to merchandise. Certainly, home roasting companions well with the Slow Cook movement. Consumers interested in home roasting might also be eager to try some of the new scone, muffin and biscotti mixes.“

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

„Cup Of Excellence competition/auctions work like this: first an in-country jury cups, or systematically tastes, around 150 competing lots of green or unroasted coffee entered by hopeful farmers. These lots of coffee already have been selected from hundreds more by a pre-screening based on well-established grading criteria. Throughout the competition coffees are identified only by three-digit numbers that change with every round of cupping.“

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View topic - fair trade article - Coffee Forum (#)

„Starbucks, which says Fair Trade coffee accounts for about 1 percent of the coffee it buys, started an incentive system three years ago that paid premiums of up to 10 cents a pound to growers who met certain social and environmental criteria, such as paying at least minimum wage and treating and recycling the water used to wash beans. Starbucks says it paid an average of $1.20 a pound for the unroasted coffee it bought last year.“

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Drinking Decaffeinated Coffees (#)

„One method for chemically removing the caffeine from green, unroasted beans involves the following steps. First the beans are warmed by water or steam, which opens up the pores in the bean. Then the beans are rinsed in a solution of methylene chloride which extracts the caffeine without removing the flavor enhancers.“

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Arabica vs Robusta: No Contest (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„These trees grow in semitropical climates near the equator, both in the western and eastern hemispheres, at high altitudes. Because ripe Arabica cherries (unroasted beans) fall to the ground and spoil, they must be carefully monitored and picked at intervals, which increases production costs.“

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CoffeeGeek - Espresso: Espresso Blends, Coffee Emergency subscribers and Americano drinkers (#)

„I love that stuff, so whenever I can, I buy as much of it as I can unroasted.  I'm running obnoxiously low on it, so I'm going to order more of everything.  I absolutely love all his American coffees, Brazilian Mogiana, Colombian Huila Valencia, Guatemalan Palo Alto Azul...“

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Café Forum@Lucidcafé | International Directory of Coffee Companies (#)

„We offer home coffee roasting equipment and the largest selection on the net of excellent green unroasted coffees available by the pound. - 9 E. 2nd Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201 - Toll Free: 888-876-5917 - Fax: 614-294-1816 - Email: sweetmaria@ee.net - Url: www.sweetmarias.com “

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CoffeeGeek - Tools of the Trade (#)

„Sample trays: these are used to hold the roasted whole bean coffee for each sample, and second trays could be used to hold the green, unroasted coffee. You could purchase those super-cheap disposable square containers that Glad or ZipLock sell, and use them as sample trays.“

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Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com (#)

„Fortunately, the unroasted beans react little to lengthy storage if properly protected from strong odors, which they readily absorb. Once roasted, however, beans begin to deteriorate. Present-day purists put the peak flavor at no more than one month.“

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Roast Your Own (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„Green coffee will store well for over a year without loss in character whereas a roasted coffee will be best consumed within a week. Buying your beans unroasted will allow you to make large purchases without worrying about the beans going bad.“

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Coffee around the World... - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„We will soon be adding more to the database. If you have an exceptional single estate or varietal coffee that has been left out and you wish to send us a sample of green(unroasted) coffee, by all means contact us at:“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„We sell our coffees at a significant discount to their roasted price. Our unroasted (i.e. "green") coffee beans often sell for half the price of comparable roasted coffees from commercial roasters“

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Global Exchange : Mexican farmers must cope with coffee glut (#)

„Like the farmers at Agustin de Iturbide, Bernstorff Perez has seen his earnings drop. Where once he got $3 per pound of unroasted dried coffee, he now gets about $1.20 a pound.“

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Global Exchange : ap082801.html (#)

„The price In 1996, the wholesale price for unroasted Arabica coffee, a high grade of coffee, and the only kind produced in Nicaragua, sold for $3 per pound.“

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Trottet - Notre Société - La tradition (#)

„Cafés Trottet SA was formed in 1947 by Théophile Trottet, who had been trading in unroasted coffee since 1932.“

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