Friday, November 2, 2012

Elephants refine coffee beans


Black Ivory is the most expensive coffee in the world / connoisseurs appreciate the smooth taste

Chiang Mai. Refine coffee (Extract and more information on the book "coffee"), which can not only legendary civets in Java, but also some 30 elephants from the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort & Spa (excerpt and more information on the book "Spa") in northern Thailand. They are heavily involved in the rarest and also curious coffee in the world, the "Black Ivory Coffee", which has recently been sold exclusively at the Anantara Resorts in Thailand and the Maldives, and a price of 1100 U.S. dollars per kilogram on the world market traded.

Coffee beans between bookshelves


Gymnasium students learn to "Brebit" interdisciplinary in the library on global issues
JÜTERBOG - For the ninth time in these days in many schools instead of the annual "Brandenburg development education days" (Brebit). With a total of 170 experts give lectures on the project days to know about current world events and topics that are not part of the core curriculum.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

TRENDS The boom of coffee beans

COFFEE TRENDS The boom of beans

The founders of coffee Toro:
With 149 liters per capita coffee is the most consumed beverage in Germany. But the days of cheap filter coffee seem to be over, many are interested in it, with which beans, which roast or what machine they can prepare the best coffee.

The coffee beans that tilts Hans bull in his coffee are green. Only in the machine of the Berlin start-ups they are roasted coffee Toto - revolution for revolution, the beans darken and puff up. Gradually, the smell of freshly roasted coffee spread. The founder Hans Philipp Gaerte bull and sell a new coffee machine for home use, toasting the coffee before it grinds and boiled.

So that, if the trend of the time, many German and more interested in it, what with beans, which roast or what machine they can prepare the best coffee. Where to put a rather Finish solutions like Nespresso capsules and Senseo pads, it seems other users can not be consuming enough.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Delicate aroma of coffee beans from Ethiopia


Cornelia pointed Villingen. Ethiopia was suddenly in the new concert hall. The earthy smell of freshly roasted coffee beans moved into thick clouds of smoke over the stage, the visitors breathed relish, some with closed eyes, and the first travel documentary series by Michael Hoyer's "story VS" took its course.

Beautiful landscapes, even gamely, then fissured, gorgeous rolling green landscapes on the one hand and on the other bone-dry deserts, villages with the very simple round huts of the natives, and deserted landscapes of a still active, bubbling volcano. And every now and again: coffee break, no: Ceremony, when Ethiopian women the beans by hand over an open fire roast, crush with a mortar and take time to enjoy the most beautiful kind of coffee: in a familiar, relaxed atmosphere with friends and the family.

Local coffee bean roasters defy the giants

The roast master Manfred Fröhlich checks the degree of browning of the beans.

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S-West - next to an old postal scale store jute bags with green coffee beans. Earlier in the store at the Gutenberg street was a butcher, now here is roasted coffee. In the corner of the room blaring the two meter high roaster. "For others, is what makes the machine noise. For me, the music, "says the roast master of the coffee roasting Cheerful, Manfred Fröhlich.

Ten pounds of green coffee beans coffee trained sommelier has just filled through a funnel into the machine. Now leaves the heat fly the beans through the drum - it cracks inside, burst because the skin of the beans. Manfred Fröhlich has looked for safety on the clock, but in the end he decides to feel when the coffee is ready after 15 to 20 minutes, to be discharged into the colander to cool. He constantly checks on a small slider, as the beans are brown. Industrially roasted coffee would only two to three minutes and the roasted about twice as hot as them when told cheerful - it shakes him inwardly at the thought of the poor industrial coffee aroma.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

coffee seeds for sale dollar

Coffee seed germination

Coffee plant coffee plants
In our online shop you can find coffee seeds of Coffea arabica, Coffea kona, and Coffea canephora. The coffee plant is a dense shrub with white flowers. With the first flowering can be expected under ideal conditions after approximately 3 to 4 years. Subsequently, the red fruits form with two seeds as they are known in the form as roasted coffee beans. Seed course unroasted coffee and fresh seeds are used as level as possible.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

green arabica coffee beans unroasted

Indiana Jones and the search for the perfect bean

Specialty Coffee Association of America
Tim Schilling recorded GPS data.

BOMA, Sudan - Tim Schilling trudges barefoot with a tribe called Nyameron through Africa. He is in search of wild varieties of the Arabica coffee plant from which are made all over the world, lattes and cappuccinos. The agricultural scientists at Texas A & M University, is director of the nonprofit organization World Coffee Research provided by large companies such as Folgers Coffee and Peet's Coffee & funded Tea. He is the Indiana Jones of the coffee industry.

The goal is to expand the tiny gene pool of the global coffee plantations. But in the four days on the plateau west of Ethiopia, the 15 members of Schilling's expedition, no new specimens have been found. They had hoped for help from Nyameron, an expert on wild varieties of coffee, they have taken by a tribal chief of Murle.

Companies have expanded their search for new varieties in order to secure its supply in the future. The production has remained the same. But the demand for coffee has increased. That is why the coffee prices have quadrupled since 2001.

The yield has been declining since 2005
Last year have been consumed in the world 17.6 billion pounds of coffee beans. 1982 there were 2.6 billion, reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture. However, production in Colombia, where they come from ten percent of the world's Arabica beans has dropped by 36 percent since 2005. The yield of the largest producers of arabica Brazil varies considerably in recent years.

Are the problems in coffee growing, there are many reasons, experts say: Among climate changes in the growing areas and the population growth in Central America, so many coffee plantations were turned into construction sites.

gourmet coffee beans for coffee house culture

Dinslaken: Seniors Cafe - Fair is the world
Press Release of 3 July 2012, 16:04 clock

Dinslaken. When the Turks withdrew in 1683 after the unsuccessful siege of Vienna, they left a supply of gourmet coffee beans. Since then, the "door-kent rank" one of our most popular beverage. Especially in the Austrian capital has developed a coffee-house culture, which is still unique. This unique atmosphere can experience the audience back when the senior café to the DIN-days on Friday 24 August, 15.30 clock in