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Author :: Nicholas H. Usborne  |
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| Article Title :: You Think You're Buying Blue Mountain Jamaican Coffee - But Are You Sure? |
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| There is a huge demand for Blue Mountain Jamaican Coffee, and a limited supply.To make matters worse, over 90% of the crop each year goes to Japan and Europe, leaving the last 10% for the whole of North America.As a result, genuine, 100% Blue Mountain Jamaican coffee is sometimes not available, at any price.At the same time, North Americans are clamoring for the beans, because Blue Mountain coffee has been so successfully marketed. That’s not to say that it isn’t a good coffee. It is. But does it live up to the marketing hype, when compared other great coffee from around the world? That is a matter of opinion and personal taste.Because of the high demand fo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Anthony Tripodi |
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| Article Title :: French Press - Making Great Coffee |
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| If you want a good cup a coffee, you will need to add some oil. Coffee oil is very flavorful and improves the taste of coffee, but it is lost during the normal filtered brewing process. Coffee made with a French press doesn't pass through a filter so you don’t lose those natural aromatic coffee oils. Most coffee lover’s agree that a French press makes a superior cup of coffee.A French press (sometimes called a coffee press) is usually a glass cylinder with a plumber like device inside. You place your coffee grinds inside and pour hot water into it. The water should not be boiling or you will scald your grinds, which will affect the taste. 200 degree water is the optimum t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Denver Wilkinson |
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| Article Title :: America's Perception of "Gourmet" Coffee |
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| Coffee is the second most-highly traded commodity in the world next to oil. It’s an enormous industry involving many players in the supply chain—the growers and farm workers, the processing mills, exporters and importers, small-batch roasters and huge commercial roasters, coffeehouses and cafes—all of who do their part to bring coffee to you, the final consumer.Take a walk down the coffee aisle of a grocery store and read the labels. You’ll find one word dominates the label rhetoric: “Gourmet.” Gourmet, it’s such a over-used term. By definition, it implies rare, expensive, high-quality, or at least sophisticated in some form of its preparation and service. Which, (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Carl Hamilton |
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| Article Title :: Espresso at Home - Making Great Latte |
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| Making a good latte is relatively easy, but requires a bit of touch, experience and understanding. Many of the most common mistakes are not easily avoided unless you know what to do, and don't do.Naturally, you need to make a cup of espresso, but stop - prepare but don't make your espresso until you are done with the most important part of a latte success - the milk.For a latte, you need steamed milk. Almost every espresso machines comes with a steam pipe to help you steam your milk for your latte or latte. There are a few other ways to steam/foam milk, but with the right knowledge you are better off using the steam pipe.So, the first trick in order to get the perfect (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Valerie T |
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| Article Title :: Good News for Coffee Drinkers |
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| Coffee, long known as the drink of choice for college students cramming for that final exam and those cursed to arise early in the morning, may be better for you than you think.A study recently released from lead author, University of Scranton in Pennsylvania chemistry professor, Joe Vinson, shows coffee to hold the lead in anti-oxidant absorption against long-time contender black tea. Trailing coffee and black tea are bananas, dried beans and corn.Anti-oxidants are known for their anti-cancer and anti-aging properties as well as aiding in protection against heart disease. Usually found in fruits and vegetables, anti-oxidants help to rid the body of free radicals, which cau (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: John A. Russo |
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| Article Title :: How to Effectively Blend Different Roasts for an Exceptionally Bold Cup of Coffee |
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| In my experiences dealing with a gourmet coffee enthusiast clientele, it has become increasingly apparent that in their quest to enjoy a bold cup of coffee, many people will demand only dark roasted coffee regardless of the country of origin. I wanted to write this article from my own roasting experiences to shed a little light on how a bold cup of coffee can be achieved while keeping the coffee bean's origin character intact.It is important to note that coffee beans from certain countries are inherently more suited for dark roasting that others. South American coffee beans tend to be grown at the highest altitudes, resulting in the hardest beans. Therefore, these beans would be (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Dean Caporella |
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| Article Title :: Coffee - To Freeze Or Not To Freeze? |
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| It was 6am and I'd just arrived at my local gym. As I walked into the entrance area I sensed that smell of all smells wafting across the foyer - the fine aroma of a well brewed coffee. It was my favorite part of the day.I wandered over to the cafe run by two close friends of mine, Tim and Jason and dispensed with my greeting in a usual cheerful manner. "Hi fellas. Give me one short black espresso straight up!" They looked at each other almost desparingly. Tim said, "How does he do it. No one should be happy at this time of the morning."Yes, I was a morning person and loved it. My ritual was to have an espresso before I donned the workout gear and "hit the weights." I'm not s (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Lynne Birch |
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| Article Title :: French Press Style Coffee |
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| The French press style of coffee making produces very rich, aromatic and tasty coffee. It uses very coarsely ground coffee that basically steeps in the brewing water for several minutes allowing all the flavours to fully extract from the coffee grinds. Because of the filtering system there is always some sediment which some people don't like.A French press coffee maker has two parts: a straight-sided container usually made of glass, and a filter-plunger that pushes through the water to filter out the coffee after it has steeped. This plunger also serves as the lid. There are some models of French Press that are insulated which is good for keeping things hot while it steeps. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: John A. Russo |
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| Article Title :: What is "The Best" Coffee? |
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| "What is the best coffee?" is a question that my clients ask more often than I would have expected. However, I am not certain that this question has an objective answer like the fact that the blue whale is the largest mammal, or that the Lexus is the most reliable vehicle. Statements like these have more empirical proof.Those discussions require some sort of standardized definition of the word "best" whereas that definition is not feasible in this discussion. One might define the best coffee as the one that is in most consumer demand. Another might define the best coffee as the one that is held in the highest regard by the masses, like the Jamaican Blue Mountain, Kona Fancy, or (read full article) |
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| Category :: Coffee Articles |
Author :: Lynne Birch |
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| Article Title :: Percolators - Some of the Basic Problems with Percolator Coffee |
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| The word "percolator" has come to mean that special coffee pot that used to sit on Grandma's stove and bubble away like mad all morning long. Typically they consist of a heat proof pot that holds the water, a long tube (like a straw) that holds a filter basket at the top. This filter is normally made of metal and holds the coffee grounds apart from the water in the main pot. Usually fairly coarsely ground coffee is used and a perforated lid is placed over the filter in order to distribute the water evenly over the grounds.As the water in the pot reached the boil, it is forced up the tube and repeatedly spilled over the grounds in the filter basket. In this way both water and the (read full article) |
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