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•What s the Big Deal About Caffeine
Probably the most widely discussed subject related to coffee drinking is one particular element the drink contains: caffeine. This substance is blamed for a whole host of things that make people uneasy about coffee, and is credited with many other things that appear to be beneficial. But what is this substance, exactly, and why does it come up so often when coffee is being talked about?
First of all, it's not just found in coffee, even though that's the product it's most often associated...
•Want to Know More About Espresso Coffee
Espresso Coffee
If you're interested in finding out about different types of coffee, you'll definitely want to try espresso. Espresso has an extremely rich flavor and contains more caffeine than a regular cup of coffee, so you don't need a whole lot to get the boost in energy that you need.
Espresso coffee has been especially popular in Europe, especially in Italy and France, but Americans love the drink too for its robust flavor.
Espresso coffee is served in 'shots' at most coffee...
•How Coffee Made Its Way Around the World
The exact details of how and when the process of making coffee was actually created aren't known. There is however a great deal of speculation and even a few legends about what happened. It is generally believed though that coffee was first drank somewhere during the fifth to seventh century of the Common Era.
In the sixteenth century a man named Abd al-Qadier al-Jaziri compiled a work that traced the history of the drink as best as possible. It showed how coffee made its way from Ethiopia...
•The Different Types of Coffee beverages
Coffea is a genus of plant that is native to the tropical regions of Africa and Asia, but can also be found all over South America. Some species of this genus are plants that grow seeds that most people know as coffee beans.
To get a coffee bean, the seeds need to undergo a series of long and carefully monitored processes, not to mention having to be handpicked one seed at a time. Once the beans are ready though, they are used to create some of the most popular products in our society, not...
•Wet Processed Coffee
Making coffee is easy, but making coffee is hard. That is to say, once you have the ground coffee in front of you, all you have to do is boil some water, grab a filter and you're set. Before getting anywhere near this point though, the coffee has to be harvested and then processed. All of this before it's even shipped, roasted or ground.
One of the common methods of processing coffee is called Wet Processing. When it's prepared in this fashion, the coffee is then either called wet processed,...
•Coffee and the Environment
Being built around such a popular drink, it's easy to imagine how the coffee industry can have a negative environmental impact; however, few people realize just the extent of the impact a cup or two of coffee can have.
Most people, if at all, only consider the obvious things when thinking of how coffee affects the environment. Basically, these things include the waste produced by the vast amount of packaging needed to get a drink into someone's hand.
Of course this is an important...
•What is fair trade coffee
You've probably heard of fair trade coffee, but may not be quite clear on what it actually is. It refers more to a practice than a type of coffee, and the emphasis is definitely on the word fair.
Before fair trade was introduced, the big – very, very big – business of coffee was all about the huge corporations, and maximizing their profits. This meant that most of the billions of dollars made from coffee growing went mostly into those corporations' pockets, but was also funneled to the...
•The Process of Roasting Coffee
There are many stages involved in the production of coffee. One of the last things that needs to be done is called roasting. The way a coffee bean is roasted is perhaps the most important things that can affect its flavor later on.
It's the roasting process that takes a processed bean and changes its chemical compound as well as physical properties into something that can be commercially sold. While an unroasted coffee bean contains much of the same characteristics of roasted beans,...
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