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Coffees From Africa and the Middle East

Coffee beans are produced all around the world in tropical regions. Here we discuss the characteristics of those produced in Africa and the Middle East.

ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia is the true birthplace of coffee. The original coffee plant originated here as well the first brew. Ethiopia today is the fifth largest producer of coffee in the world growing mainly the best arabicas. Ethiopian dry-processed coffee (Harrar), tends to be medium-bodied and strongly acidic with fruity, winy tones. ‘Yirgacheffe’ coffee has floral and citrus characteristics and is light bodied. Dry processed ‘Djimah’ is a popular bean that a exhibits medicinal taste. ‘Ghimbi’ is a wet-processed bean from western Ethiopia. Limu is the market name for a well-respected fragrant, floral and fruit-toned wet-processed coffee from south-central Ethiopia.

UGANDA

As the 11th largest producer of coffee in the world, Uganda has some fine arabica coffees which display the much favoured winy acidity and other desirable flavour characteristics of the best East African coffees. About 90% of the coffees produced are of the robusta variety, which are mainly used for blending and in the manufacture of instant soluble coffee. ‘Bugishu’ coffee from the slopes of Mount Elgon is the best known coffee from Uganda.  Read more...

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Posted by admin on August 21st, 2010
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Coffee Makers for Different Coffee Types

There is nothing quite like waking up in the morning, stumbling to the kitchen and finding your favourite coffee brewed and waiting for you. Of all the drinks in the world, coffee seems to have universal appeal. But if you have ever travelled you quickly discovered that one person’s coffee can be quite different from another’s.

A World Wide Business—Coffee Types

Coffee is grown on five different continents and dozens of countries around the world. There are coffee plantations in Columbia and much of South America. There are hundreds of plantations in Africa. The growing region expands to the east and west including the West Indies, Sumatra, and Java.

All of the coffee growing regions are in tropical zones within 30 degrees or so of the Equator. While all coffee grows in bean form, there are different types or varieties of coffee plants, hence the many different coffee types.

Roasting and Brewing

Although plant variety can affect the taste of coffee, the way it is handled following harvesting has a great deal to do with the flavour as well.  Read more...

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Posted by admin on August 20th, 2010
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Iced Coffee

Iced coffee offers a great refreshing experience with its chill and the flavor of coffee. It is a very popular drink and all people all over the world enjoy it. Iced ‘Spresso offers different varieties of iced coffee which has low concentration of carbs as well as calories but does not lack on coffee flavor. It does not have any added sugar and hence is considered as a diabetic friendly drink. The iced coffee by Iced ‘Spresso is a real blessing for all coffee lovers as it brings out the real great taste of coffee. Iced coffee has become one of the most accepted coffee drinks in the recent times and people are opting for it over the normal hot coffee. The common forms of iced coffee are the iced latte as well as iced mocha. It is served in tall and sleek cans or glasses. We have introduced coffee like never before and try to create a complete drink high in nutrition and taste and flavor. Our drinks are low in calories unlike normal coffee drinks which are a great choice for the health conscious people looking to stay healthy.  Read more...

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Posted by admin on August 19th, 2010
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Coffee: Quality is Important

A quality cup of coffee can depend on many factors, such as:


The time since the coffee beans were ground;

The time since the beans were roasted;

How clean the brewing equipment is;

The quality of the coffee bean being used;

The quality of the water being used.


Some Interesting Facts About Coffee


The quality of the coffee bean is the most important of these factors, if you are going to buy “good” coffee. The very best bean will taste bad if any one of the other listed characteristics are out of place. Not all coffee beans are equal, but the other points listed above will even the field.


A lesser coffee that has been freshly roasted and ground is many times better than coffee that has been roasted and ground then left to get stale – no matter how good it was when it was fresh.


A can of coffee found in the supermarket often contains large amounts of robusta, low quality Arabica beans and past crop (old) beans. To make matters worse, there is no way for the major coffee companies that roast and ship all over the country to get you truly fresh coffee.  Read more...

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Guide to Coffee Grinder

The coffee grinder has been around almost as long as humans have been drinking coffee. When the coffee bean was first discovered in the Middle East, it was dried, boiled in water and then the coffee lover would drink the broth and eat the berries. Once humans became a little more sophisticated in their coffee drinking, the beans were dried then pounded into bits and then brewed. Soon humans grasped the idea of roasting the coffee beans and then pulverizing them in a coffee grinder to make even better coffee.

A Necessity When You Want Coffee

Once coffee became a commercial adventure and manufacturers began making coffee to be sold, it was often pre-ground before being canned, sealed and sold. This type of coffee is probably the most widely available, but for many the aroma and flavor of your everyday run of the mill coffee leaves something to be desired. That is partly the reason that gourmet coffee has become such a big business in the last few years.

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Posted by admin on August 15th, 2010
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Coffee Basics 101 ? Choosing a Great Coffee!

“I’m searching for a really great cup of coffee — what variety should I buy?”

I’ve been asked this question many times over the years and I always provide the same answer — “That depends!” Early coffee drinkers used to choose their coffee for the caffeine jolt it provided. But times have changed, and in today’s world, when choosing a great coffee — it’s all about the taste, and the taste depends on many things.

The taste of a great coffee depends on the climate, soil and cultivation methods involved in the beans’ production. Coffee beans contain hundreds of compounds that give them their flavor and aroma. The type of coffee bean you choose, arabica or robusta makes a huge difference in coffee quality and taste. Arabica beans are of a much higher-quality compared to robusta beans, which are normally used as filler for most lower-end coffees. The roasting and brewing process used on the beans can also greatly affect the taste. All of these factors, together, have an enormous impact on coffee taste and quality, and as a result, they do determine whether the coffee is really great or not.

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Six Tips for a Great Coffee Wedding Favor

A lot of people love coffee. For some individuals, mornings are simply not complete without a great steaming cup of aromatic and flavorful coffee. This is probably why coffee has now also invaded the wedding scene. If you’re also thinking of handing out coffee favors then take a look at these great tips for coming up with the perfect coffee wedding favor.

Study the Basics of Coffee

Coffee brands and blends were not created equal. Coffee fanatics among your guests would notice if your coffee wedding favor is not the best kind. Take time then to get to know basic details about coffee.

Your coffee wedding favor research should start with the beans. The two major beans are Arabica and Robusta. Arabica is more popular and reputedly more flavorful. Robusta however generally has more caffeine content and is cheaper. You can have ground coffee or coffee beans in your coffee wedding favor. From your coffee wedding favor bean inquiry you can move on to choosing among the many bean variations like Kona, Columbian, decaf, organic and many more. The most common choice is to have a coffee bean blend. There are also a great variety of flavors to choose from such as vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut, butter rum, cinnamon and Irish cream.  Read more...

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Posted by admin on August 10th, 2010
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Eight O’Clock Coffee, Original Whole Bean, 12-Ounce Bag

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Ways To Make Chocolate Today

Making chocolate is not possible without your bag of tools. Some of these tools may be easily secured off your kitchens, but if you are really hell-bent on becoming a home chocolatier, you may have to invest in some other equipment that is exclusively used only for chocolate making. The good thing is that there are a wealth of resources available to help you make the best use of whatever resources you have at the moment.

In fact, while these tools are highly recommended, you can do away with some of them at the expense of making a more manual operation of making chocolate, especially in the refinement stage. Here are the different tools that you need to make that homemade chocolate yummy and delectable.

Oven or Roaster The oven or roaster is where you roast the beans, and you also use that to help achieve certain temperatures that you need during the tempering process. To say that tempering is a difficult task would be an understatement, since it requires hours and hours of measurement.  Read more...

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What is Green Mountain Coffee?

Pick the best coffee beans available all over the world, roast them to perfection, season with an advanced social conscience and a mission to help change the world, flavor with a very savvy sense of marketing and business and you might end up with one of the most successful specialty coffee businesses in the world. Ask the founders of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the specialty coffee business that started as a small café in Waterbury, Vermont back in 1981 and recorded nearly $350 million in sales in fiscal 2007.


The road to success for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has been a series of excellent business decisions coupled with right-place-right-time social policies. The Green Mountain label stands for excellent coffee combined with a mission to make a difference in the world. That mission imbues everything that the company does, from sourcing their coffees to point of sale and beyond – the company even uses recycled/recyclable packaging materials. Mission and social responsibility aside, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters owes its success to one factor – the amazing flavor.  Read more...

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