Category: Coffee types and origins
Recently, many people have been asking me, whether green (unroasted) coffee can have any positive effect regarding weight loss. The answer is: no, it can’t. Actually, I should’ve ended this article right here. Drinking green coffee makes as much sense as eating raw potatoes, which at most causes a stomachache. Anyway, let me explain everything step by step. . .…
The wording “specialty coffee” has appeared on the blog more than once. In many articles I wrote about such coffees, as well as I mentioned that in the Single Origin coffee roastery we use such beans and we offer them to our clients. However, no article has appeared so far that would be entirely and directly devoted to this topic.…
You often ask me what differs African arabica from American arabica, how to grind coffee so it matches a specific brewing method or which roasting level will be the best for you. So, this article will contatin some information, that can help you answering these questionns. Arabica or robusta? There are 2 different variations of coffee that are cultivated worldwide:…
I don’t think that most of europeans know much about Ethiopia. It’s commonly known that it’s an African country, it’s probably hot and poor. However, it’s worth noting, that our thoughts during morning coffee, can turn to this African country. Ethiopia is not only one of the largest coffee producers in the world, but it’s also the place where coffee…
Espresso, cappuccino, latte, americano… Surely most of you know which coffee to choose for yourself. But what are the differences between other coffees? Espresso – everyone knows. Latte has a higher amount of heated (but not frothed) milk than cappuccino. Americano is a ,,big black coffee”. But what to choose when you can see coffees like flat white, Romano or…
In my previous article I wrote about different coffees, most based on espresso. This time I would like to focus only on espresso as it’s the most important factor, which affects the final result of cappuccino, latte or any other espresso based coffee. Espresso should have 25 ml volume. It’s served in a heated porcelain cup of 70 ml volume.…
Most people who drink coffee tend to limit themselves to determining whether it is good or not. In the case of people dealing with coffee professionally, such terms can not say much. Coffee beans are the second most traded commodity on world exchanges (crude oil is the first). The entire industry, from growers over brokers and roasters, to coffee shops…
Turkish coffee, a coffee prepared with a specific method, which I describe below, known for over 500 years. It’s not that popular and is a bit harder and more time consuming than making a regular coffee, but has an intense and original taste. Before we get to making Turkish coffee, let’s go back in time. First notes describing Turkish coffee…
Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. Not many people, however, know that Brazil’s coffee history started with a bouquet of flowers, with coffee seeds hidden in it. But, let’s go step by step…. In one of my previous articles, I said that coffee’s homeland is Ethiopia, where it’s cultivated for over 1000 years. However, coffee settled best in Brazil,…