African Coffee Varieties and Leading Brands

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African Coffee Varieties and Leading Brands

By Tim Thompson on Monday, November 18th, 2024 | No Comments

While you may still prefer your gourmet Colombian coffee at grocery store prices, from time to time trying another variety or brand of coffee from somewhere else in the world can be an enjoyable experience.

Java Coffee Variety

By Tim Thompson on Friday, October 18th, 2024 | No Comments

When someone offers you a cup of Java you typically assume that they are simply offering you coffee. After all Java was one of the early locations where Dutch traders started planting coffee away from West Africa and the Middle East. Thus, years ago Java became synonymous with coffee. However, it turns out there is […]

How Many Coffee Varieties Are There?

By Tim Thompson on Saturday, May 4th, 2024 | No Comments

There are many varieties of Arabica coffee. In fact, there are more than ten thousand different varieties of coffee! The majority of these are not commercially available or even commercially viable as they are sub-varieties growing where coffee started in the mountains of Ethiopia.

What Is the Most Expensive Coffee in the US?

By Tim Thompson on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 | No Comments

Some folks are willing to pay a premium for unique coffees. That person is a coffee gourmet. Are you a coffee gourmet? If so you probably like healthy organic coffee. Are you familiar with Panama mountain grown organic coffee or Colombian organic coffee brands? Do you prefer coffee house coffee on the way to work? […]

Coffee Varieties: Java

By Tim Thompson on Saturday, November 14th, 2015 | No Comments

Coffee varieties are the subspecies of coffee that occur by natural selection and by selective breeding. Disease resistance, yield and flavor vary from variety to variety. Variety or breed selection is critical to the planter as he or she must pick the optimal variety for altitude, sun or shade, soil conditions and climate. Regarding coffee […]

Coffee Varieties: Sarchimor

By Tim Thompson on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 | No Comments

A coffee variety more resistant to coffee leaf rust than most is sarchimor. This is a hybrid between the Costa Rican Villa Sarchi coffee and a Timor variety. Timor coffee itself is a hybrid between Arabica and robusta which is what gives the coffee its leaf rust resistance. Besides being grown today in Costa Rica, […]

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