What Is Coffee? - National Coffee Association (#)
„Coffea arabica is descended from the original coffee trees discovered in Ethiopia. These trees produce a fine, mild, aromatic coffee and represent approximately 70 percent of the world's coffee production. On the world market, arabica coffees bring the highest prices. The better arabicas are high grown coffees -- generally grown between 2,000 to 6,000 feet above sea level -- though optimal altitude varies with proximity to the equator. The important factor is that temperatures must remain mild, neither too hot nor too cold, ideally between 59 - 75 degrees, with about 60 inches of rainfall a year. The trees are hearty but a heavy frost will kill them. Arabica trees are costly to cultivate because the terrain tends to be steep and access difficult. Also, because the trees are more disease prone than robusta, they require additional care and attention.“
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Cafe´ de Colombia - COFFEE BEANS
„Coffea Arabica commonly called Arabica, are considered the highest quality beans and therefore are usually more expensive. They grow best in high altitudes and produce a very flavorful and aromatic coffee, low in caffeine and acidity. In Colombia, Arabica is exclusively grown. Coffea Robusta or canephora is commonly called Robusta.“
http://www.juanvaldez.com/menu/history/ beans.html
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„Only in the past few years have Organic and Fair Trade coffees come from Ethiopia, and all are from a single huge cooperative called the Oromia co-op. They represent many small farms in many regions, and while the regions are certainly kept distinct (Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Etc) the individual farms are too small to sell each coffee as discrete lots. So some of these pooled co-op lots can be pretty good, and a few are excellent. It takes cupping to sort through all the offerings, and this year I found 2 lots that were really nice, one dry-processed coffee from Sidamo and one wet-processed coffee from Yirgacheffe (although both are totally different in the cup).“
http://www.sweetmarias.com/ coffee.africa.ethiopia.html
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Coffee: History, Origins, Brewing, Cupping, and Buying
„Despite the appeal of such a legend, recent botanical evidence indicates that Coffea arabica originated on the plateaus of central Ethiopia and some how must have been brought to Yemen where it was cultivated since the 6th century. Upon introduction of the first coffee houses in Cairo and Mecca coffee became a passion rather than just a stimulant.“
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/ history.htm
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Global Exchange : Stunted coffee market pushes Ethiopians into drug trade
„But today there's too much coffee in the world, and prices are at 30-year lows. While premium Ethiopian coffees fetch up to $12 a pound in the United States, Ethiopia's farmers get only 15 cents for it.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 589.html
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„For centuries aristocrats, persons of royal descent , and various lay- abouts with extra money and time on their hands, have been seduced by the aroma of freshly ground coffee. They all wanted that aromatic experience to be heightened into a flavor you could drink. The history of human attempts to seduce the aromatic essence of freshly roasted coffee into a cup is wildly inventive, producing machines of great visual beauty and a variety of clever approaches, all of which fell comically short of the goal.“
http://www.lucidcafe.com/cafeforum/ schomertable16.html
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