You can buy great coffee, store it correctly, roast to perfection and still end up with a cup of coffee that is not to your liking. How is that? It has to do with the quality of the water that you use and how you filter your coffee. Using bottled or filtered water will generally […]
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Colombian Coffee Triangle
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 | No Comments
There are many excellent coffees in the world but the region where one can find universally excellent coffee in the greatest quantities is in the West of Colombia in the Paisa region of largely rural Colombia. This region is the coffee triangle but is also called the coffee growing axis (Eje Cafetero in Spanish). The […]
Read More...Who Invented Coffee?
By Tim Thompson on Friday, August 5th, 2022 | No Comments
The story continues that Kaldi brought berries to a nearby monastery where the abbot experimented with the berries and discovered that roasting, grinding and brewing the beans resulted in coffee as we know it. Thus the person who invented coffee in its original form was someone like the abbot in the story who first brewed coffee.
Read More...Coffee Prices Over the Years
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, August 12th, 2021 | No Comments
The New York Times just published an article saying that your daily coffee habit is about to get more expensive. They note the fact that climate issues in Brazil and export problems due to civil unrest in Colombia, the two biggest exporters of Arabica coffee, have conspired to drive coffee futures up. And, if you […]
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Colombian Organic Coffee Brands
By Tim Thompson on Tuesday, June 15th, 2021 | No Comments
Colombian coffee is widely acclaimed to some of the best coffee in the world. But what about Colombian organic coffee brands and Colombian coffee brands for standard Colombian Arabica coffee? Any coffee grown in Colombia qualifies for Juan Valdez designation, meaning that the Colombian Coffee Growers Association certifies it as 100% Colombian.
Read More...All About Coffee
By Tim Thompson on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 | No Comments
Coffee is a beverage brewed from the seed (bean) of the Coffea plant. More than half of all Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee every day. Americans average 3 cups a day and spend about $40 billion a year on their coffee. (Harvard School of Public Health) The History of Coffee: Ethiopian Legend […]
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Coffee Roasting
By Tim Thompson on Friday, January 22nd, 2021 | No Comments
Coffee roasting turns green coffee into the dark brown aromatic beans used to make your cup of morning cup of java. The green coffee beans you start out with are spongy and smell a little like grass. With coffee roasting a series of chemical processes take place that totally change the flavor and aroma of […]
Read More...Where Can I Buy Fresh Coffee from Colombia?
By Tim Thompson on Thursday, January 14th, 2021 | No Comments
Colombia produces large quantities of the best Arabica coffee in the world. Coffee is best when fresh. So, your question should be, where can I buy fresh coffee from Colombia? We would like to present a little background to help you with finding the greatest coffee at reasonable prices. The bottom line is that you […]
Read More...What Kind of Coffee is Good for You?
By Tim Thompson on Monday, June 29th, 2020 | No Comments
We have known that coffee is good for you for years. But even back years ago medical research was beginning to show that coffee benefits depend on several factors such as your age, how much coffee you drink, and what kind of coffee you prefer. The New York Times published a useful article recently about […]
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