posted September 27, 2014 09:25 PM            

did you know...
The Arabs were the first to trade coffee, and they were so protective that they boiled the beans so no one else could cultivate them. Seedlings were smuggled out of Yemen to Amsterdam and then the Dutch planted them around the globe in their colonies and eventually gifted them to France who did the same.

Today, only two varieties of coffee are commercially grown, Robusta and Aribica. They are tropical evergreen plants that yield red cherries with two seeds each.

I never knew the scientific reason for the one-way valve on the vacuum packed coffee you find at the grocery store. Fresh coffee expels carbon dioxide as a by product of the roasting process. When it escapes through the valve, oxygen is prevented from entering, and the complex aromatics of the coffee are left in tact.

This book shows step by step how to create latte art, starting with the heart and ending with the tulip. Looks so pretty.
Also shows you how to roast your own beans.

You can desensitize yourself to the effects of caffeine by drinking coffee at the same time every day. So, don't keep drinking more coffee, just change up your routine and drink it at different times each day to keep the buzz going.

Decaf coffee is unfortunately made from the oldest and poorest quality beans.

How many ways can you brew?
1- espresso machine
2- french press
3- filter pour-over
4- cloth brewer
5- aeropress
6- syphon
7- stove-top pot
8- cold dripper
9- electric filter-brew
10- phin
-11 ibrik

How many ways can you drink it?
ENDLESS

posted October 01, 2014 12:18 AM            

I like the syrup taste of the convenience store ersatz "cappuccino".

posted October 01, 2014 12:34 PM            

The Kopi Luwak is one of the most expensive coffees, because the coffee cherries remain in the digestive tract of the luwaks for around twenty four hours mixed with various other things the luwak has eaten. Raw kopi luwak often contains seeds and nuts as well as coffee beans. During the digestive process the flesh of the cherries is removed leaving the seeds (the coffee beans) inside an inner skin, called the pergamino or parchment. The parchment is permeable allowing acids in the luwak's stomach to soak the beans causing the destruction of some of the proteins in the coffee and altering their final taste.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

posted October 03, 2014 04:36 PM            

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Originally posted by GeminiKarat:
I am an official coffee addict.

The Kopi Luwak is one of the [b]most expensive coffees, because the coffee cherries remain in the digestive tract of the luwaks for around twenty four hours mixed with various other things the luwak has eaten. Raw kopi luwak often contains seeds and nuts as well as coffee beans. During the digestive process the flesh of the cherries is removed leaving the seeds (the coffee beans) inside an inner skin, called the pergamino or parchment. The parchment is permeable allowing acids in the luwak's stomach to soak the beans causing the destruction of some of the proteins in the coffee and altering their final taste.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Coffee dregs clean a congested pipe. I found it out by accident, but it is working.[/B]

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