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jeudi 19 décembre 2013

The Truths About How Your Coffee Is Processed

By Debrah Elliot


Maybe before you take a sip of that coffee you are drinking it would interest you to know some facts about this brew such as the fact that around 400 billion cups of coffee are being consumed worldwide every year. Yes, that is how popular coffee is! If you check the records you will even find that coffee expenditure in Great Britain overtook the amount spent for their tea in 1998.

It might interest you to know that your coffee is from the coffee plant that is a tropical evergreen of "Coffea" genus and belonging to the "Rubiaceae" family. Although there are actually about 50 or more plants under this genus, only three are being harvested commercially which are Arabica, Robusta and Libeca. It is quite easy to find a coffee plant if you live in areas within the tropical Latin America, Asia and Africa. It is between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer that all the commercially produced coffee is cultivated and grown. As for the U.S., coffee can be found cultivated in Hawaii only as this is the only spot falling between those two tropics.

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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