Yes, you can roast coffee bean at home! The process of roasting green coffee beans on a small scale and for personal consumption is called home coffee bean roasting. This method has been practiced for many centuries already and is still very popular in recent times. Many also prefer home coffee bean roasting than instant [...]
There has never been a better time than now, if you are a die-hard coffee drinker. For the average coffee drinker who doesn’t really have preference, it may not matter what kind of coffee they are drinking. They would probably be happy with any of kind of instant coffee they get at the office. But [...]
The coffee plant produces a red or purple fruit, but people are less interested in that than they are in the actual coffee bean. Technically speaking the bean is the pit, similar to the pit found in a cherry or apricot, but with two half oval shapes facing each other. This pit, containing up to [...]
From the millions of people who drink coffee all over the world every day, how many do you think that are able to tell the flavor difference between various types of coffee beans? Too few, since what we treasure most is the intensity of the caffeine content: yes, we can tell at any moment whether [...]
By: Muna Wa Wanjiru Given the great taste match between coffee and chocolate, no wonder there is a whole variety of sweets combining the two: chocolate candies with coffee filling, chocolate covered coffee beans, chocolate and coffee cakes and so on. You really don’t have to be a chef to prepare some of the [...]
Great Roasted Coffee Starts With The Beans A great cup of roasted coffee starts with the beans. Whether you buy coffee beans and ground them yourself or prefer to use ground coffee, the bean makes a big difference in what your coffee is going to taste like. The most popular type of beans today, according [...]
If you’d go to a restaurant and you’d be shown some green coffee beans that would have to make you a tasty coffee, you’d surely make a very serious and distrustful face. Save any comments for the moment you’ll taste the coffee, and then you’re completely entitled to complain, if you still feel like! Many [...]
Because of higher retail prices we now have a wide range of various Types of Gourmet coffee Beans in our every day lives, it can be more and more difficult to discern what you’re buying at the market. And that’s not surprising given the sheer numbers game. From what we know, there are more [...]
For coffee drinking gourmets your selection process should include purchasing green coffee beans as part of your formula for a great cup of coffee. These beans can be kept for up to one year and stay fresh for your brewing pleasure. If you buy in bulk amounts you will be saving money on these essential [...]
People who don’t know the many benefits of coffee beans often want to know why people buy coffee beans in the first place when you can purchase a jar of ordinary coffee. A can of decent coffee is just as good, they say. But is it really? The fact of the matter is that there [...]