lundi 9 décembre 2013

The Truths About How Your Coffee Is Processed

By Debrah Elliot


Before you drink that cup of coffee you are holding, take note of several interesting facts about coffee - the first being that there are about 400 billion cups of coffee being drunk annually all over the world. That is the vastness of coffee lovers and drinkers worldwide! In fact, in the year 1998, coffee expenditure overtook the amount spent for tea in Great Britain.

Coffee is actually from the coffee plant which is a tropical evergreen which belongs to the genus "Coffea" under the family of "Rubiaceae." There are around 60 plants in this particular genus however there are but three being harvested commercially namely Arabica, Robusta and Libeca. Finding your coffee plant is all too easy - that is if you live in places like the Latin America, Asia and Africa. Your commercially produced coffee is being cultivated and grown between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Hawaii is the sole place that grows coffee in the United States.

Why people use the term "coffee beans" is a fact bound to be uncovered when you see the fruit of the coffee plant consisting of two bean-looking seeds joined by pulp and skin when you break it open. It's not a bean, however, but a berry. There is much labor put into harvesting these coffee berries. As these berries ripen at different times and they don't become come ideal for picking until they ripen just right, they are mostly hand-picked. Even with the existence of mechanical pickers, hand-picking is still preferred by many because machines don't give as reliable and efficient results as people.

The extraction of coffee beans from the berries calls for two methods to choose from and one is dry and one is wet. For the first method, you are required to dry the berries under the sun for a really long period, usually several weeks, until the berries turn to brown and harden up. The second one which is the wet method involves soaking the berries in water for several days before you can dry them up under the sun or if you have a drying machine, you can have them dried here. Most prefer the dry method because this is easier and is at the same time cheaper.

Your coffee flavors often depend on another part of the coffee processing and that is the roasting. As after extraction the coffee beans may still be in its green state, they are roasted and later being classified according to their darkness or lightness where many coffee drinkers in the US actually prefer light roasts. In some cases, in order to ensure fresher product, coffee beans are being exported while it is in its green state and the receiving end does the roasting instead.

If you reside in the Los Angeles area, one Culver City coffee shop produces some of the best coffee drinks in the area. At Island Monarch Coffee, the coffee is only the finest imported coffee beans from South America and Kona, Hawaii. Coffee drinkers will delight in the fact that each cup comes fresh because the grinding of the coffee beans take place in their shop itself after placing one's order for a cup. Water is guaranteed purified through the process of reverse osmosis as well. Not only are the beans freshly ground, they aren't roasted until just a few days before you drink your coffee, so it is truly the freshest cup of coffee in the area.




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