Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Coffee: Is It Getting Too Complicated?

By Alex Tesla


Plain coffee is fast becoming a thing of the past. It is now quite easy to whip up a gourmet hot drink for visitor, family, or just for yourself. These days there are a variety of coffee clubs and circles in which coffee drinking is now somewhat of a social club. These social clubs meet in the community or on the web.

Where did the good old days go where you could get just a regular, great cup of coffee all throughout America.

It is all because there's a big craze over coffee nowadays. Individuals are almost worshipping the coffee bean now. People get a thrill out of ordering and buying unique coffees from specialty stores. They truly like grinding their very own coffee beans. They enjoy visiting places such as Costa Rica and bringing back their unique blends. And "coffee tasting" seems to be about as well-known as "wine tasting".

They even have furniture and home interior styles with a coffee theme. This could make great gifts for the coffee aficionado.

Coffee got its beginnings around 900 A.D. where it was at first used as a stimulant. It was also at times used as a wine and a medicine. It doesn't look like anything is much different these days.

There are not numerous products such as coffee that have continued "as is" for countless years. And yet individuals are still inspecting and getting inventive with it today and probably will be for years to come.

What is also interesting is that coffee is second to oil in dollar volume as a world commodity.

Do you know that there is 2 times more caffeine in a pound of tea than in the same amount of roasted coffee? This may be good news for those of you who hate the taste of decaffeinated coffee nevertheless wait just one moment. A pound of tea can make about 160 cups whereas a pound of coffee will usually make about 40 cups. This means that a cup of tea has about 1/4th the caffeine of a cup of coffee.

The content of caffeine in coffee diminishes because it is grown at higher altitudes. If you want less caffeine in your coffee, grow it higher. Gourmet coffees are usually grown at higher altitudes so they have less caffeine than their grocery store counterparts.

There are lots of different types of coffee beans and way a lot of to describe in this write-up. Here are just a couple of of them:

You have Latte, Espresso, Low-Fat, Organic, Cal, Decaf, Half-Decaf, Black Forest, Cappuccino, Cafe au Lait, Alpine which has brown sugar, Arabian (lightly spiced and without filter), Cafe con Miel (Spanish for coffee with honey), and Cafe de Olla (a sweet coffee made with chocolate).

And you truly should attend a coffee tasting at least once. You will get to experience how making and brewing gourmet coffee is slowly becoming a form of art. What's fun about the coffee tasting is that you could get a chance to taste two dozen or more different blends. You may even leave to start your journey as a coffee connoisseur. Any way you look at it, the tasting experience will be enjoyable if you like coffee.




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