Friday, October 11, 2013

Alleged miracle diet : hype around green coffee beans

Weight Loss: panacea from green coffee beans
A pound of weight loss per week - of course , without doing anything for it: green coffee extract is of wasting excess fat. The trend comes from the USA and is also continuing in Germany . What's behind it ?

Fitness knowledge and magazines report on " Slim Trick Green coffee fat burner " or promise " rapid weight loss with extract of green coffee beans ." The trend in the United States at least since the end of last year conquered Germany . On the Internet, offers and promises accumulate around the expensive supplements , obtained from unroasted coffee beans. Critical voices are rare.

26 tons of coffee beans in the first half

For 15 years, Würzburg partner coffee from Africa is not only drunk in Würzburg - The project is a success story

Klaus Veeh , Managing Partner of the club Würzburg drinking coffee , four cups daily fair-trade coffee .
Best quality : the first half of the club sat 26 tons of coffee Würzburg partner ab.CHRIST
The producers of the Würzburg coffee partner must go through a certification process to get the Fairtrade

A poster announces that coffee " fairbindet " . White paper bags emblazoned on the colorful logo of the " Würzburg partner coffee " . Over a range of yellow coffee bags hanging on a world map. Almost everything in the office of Klaus Veeh revolves around the theme of " coffee " . For 15 years, there is the partner of coffee is produced by small farmers in Tanzania. The project " Partners Coffee " is a success story . "Every year our sales grow by up to ten percent," says Veeh .

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

culture of coffee bean roasting

Cult of the bean

Obertshausen - Going past the coffee at the supermarket shelf, you need quite a while. Meters long pads and capsules are lined, the business is booming with the rapid cup. Lena Marie Jörger

240 kg of coffee beans summarizes the roaster by Andreas Hühsam.
But the coffee roasting Joerges in Hausen continues to rely on tradition and remains in the whole bean. A handsome mid-fifties, in a dark suit, casually sipping on a glass of espresso. The Nespresso commercials knows nearly everyone. The cult of the brightly colored aluminum capsules no end, pendants evoke the special taste.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Coffee beans from elephant dung Kopi Luwak

Chiang Saen - For true gourmet nothing is too outlandish: In Thailand, you can enjoy your coffee almost predigested. Beans of the brand "Black Ivory Coffee» all time already hiked by an elephant.

In the digestive tract of elephants he should get its unique flavor. Converted 34 euros paid for the portion of coffee Nuttall.

Fight for coffee capsules - Bochum competition for Nespresso

The market for coffee capsules controversial.
Bochum. The top dog Nespresso coffee capsules, which advertises with Hollywood star George Clooney, is facing stiff competition from Tchibo and Jacobs. But small providers like Zuiano with roots in Bochum cavort in the highly coveted growth market of portioned coffee.

Germany is a nation of coffee drinkers. 149 liters of drinking on average each citizen per year, more than water and beer. The trend is coffee made from fresh beans and ground into capsules. The segment is highly competitive. Nestlé Nespresso capsule top dog who advertise movie star George Clooney, the competition is getting more on the fur.

On Tuesday, the U.S. food group Mondelez (Tassimo, Jacobs) announced plans to bring in the second half of coffee capsules on the market that fit in Nespresso machines. Mondelez European coffee business is the number one and number two worldwide.

Wheat beer with coffee beans

MUNICH. Bavarian restaurateurs allow yourself to think on the subject of beer a lot. Instead of using Coke or Sprite, it can also be combined with coffee, like Marc Eisenbarth, owner of Café Müncher gugelhupf shows now.
Together with the Giesing brewery Eisenbarth has now released the mixed drink "ring cake coffee and wheat." It consists of 93 percent and 7 percent, top-fermented beer made from coffee beans. The alcohol content is 5.8 percent.
The created by him coffee wheat sold Eisenbarth now in his ring cake cafe in Munich. For a 0.33-liter bottle of the guest pays 3.80 euros. From the autumn there will be the mixed drink in the Giesing Braeustueberl beer maker. The "ring cake coffee and wheat" was not the first attempt at brewing restaurateurs. In 2012 he tried a similar drink, but failed in the German brewing law. The bottles were not properly labeled, the ingredients are not specified.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

A good nose for fine coffee beans

For coffee roasters Tino Rosendahl began a venture two years ago. Meanwhile, buzzing his little shop.


Mmmhhhh. . . Tino Rosendahl like the flavor of the coffee beans. Two and a half years since he resides with his roasting on Wall Street. Photo: Achim Blazy
"You need 15 grams of coffee for two cups It is estimated about 60 grams per liter and the water should not be above 93 degrees hot when pouring But actually it's not about math -.... Taste but" On request there is in Tino Rosendahl coffee roasting on Wall Street since both two and a half years. "The start was already a risk for us," says Rosendahl. Meanwhile, he and his wife Angela need to special times busy periods, Fridays and Saturdays, personal gain.

New smells of spices and coffee beans

Susanne cooker Burkhalter in their "Gwürz-Zouber» shop.
Now, the store is called "Gwürz-Zouber" the number 1, or at least his house number. Of the Golden Lane 9, the spice sorceress and owner Susan Burkhalter cooker is restrained to the Golden Lane first

The spell takes a right upon entering the "Gwürz-Zoubers." Oriental style the owner has set up their new store. Antique furniture pieces bring the charm, a selection of teas and spices the inviting scent. This increases one already on the street in the nose. A round table with chairs is the focal point of the fresh-related locality. «Gwürz-Zouber should be" a place to stay, tasting and shopping, "says the owner of their concept.

Fair trade involves more than coffee beans


Lünen remains Fairtrade town. That's for almost two years after the first award of the title. Of light and shadow in terms of Fairtrade informed in Luenen Dr. Ulrich Weber (LIGA), Jutta Guelzow (Consumer) and Gabriele Schiek (city).

The balance after two years:
It has improved a lot, but there are also shadows. Lünen is allowed to use the title "Fair Trade Town" in fact more durable. Who is certified for the second time, retains the title. This is expected on 27 September to be celebrated before the City Council.

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

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Picked, dried, roasted coffee beans

Set back from the bush to the cup, the coffee bean has a long way - as
the example of smallholders in the Central American country of
Nicaragua shows.
Coffee from Nicaragua was in the early days of the fair trade symbol
of international solidarity in general. Coffee is still a very
important export product for the Central American country - but is the
"brown gold" for about four percent of total economic output of the
country.
1.5 million bags with 60 kilos of coffee beans produced in the
previous year, the bulk of it is shipped via the port of Puerto Cortes
in Honduras neighboring country - the USA and Europe. Nicaragua itself
has no suitable harbor. The three most important countries for
acceptance Nica coffee are the United States, Germany and Venezuela.
Until that happens, however, the coffee bean a laborious and long way:
pick the fertile highlands of the Matagalpa region, about 150
kilometers from the capital Managua, countless small farmers, the

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Raw sugar and coffee Arabica prices on multi-year highs

Frankfurt (aktiencheck.de AG) - The prices of raw sugar and coffee Arabica in November could rise to multi-year highs, the analysts at Commerzbank Corporates.

Inflationary were the announcement of a further quantitative easing of U.S. monetary policy, but also offer some disappointing news from some producing countries have been. This season was a balanced relationship between supply and demand expected, which should moderately dampen future price development. With low stocks should stabilize the prices of sugar and coffee at a relatively high level. The cocoa price should evolve in the face of an expected market surplus remains below par.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Coffee prices to record high

29th July 2010, 13:28
The raw coffee prices have increased by 30 percent through July, the hope is now on the Brazil crop
Vienna - The world market for coffee has great turmoil currently suspended. Concerns about shortages of the Robusta and Arabica varieties, the prices were on the commodity exchanges in London and New York in the year by 30 percent to skyrocket. Simultaneously, the worldwide coffee consumption, since the year 2000 world quarter.
By the International Coffee Organization (ICO), calculated average price for green coffee in June 2010 rose to 142.2 cents per pound - that's the highest number since the price monitor is created. Compared with June 2009 (119.1 US-Cent/Pfund), this means an increase of 20 percent. By the end of July is the raw coffee price continued to rise to 153.4 cents, an increase of 30 percent over the previous year.
Record prices for arabica beans
Especially high-quality Arabica beans achieved record prices: with 224.5 cents in June 2010 we had a pound for Arabica pay more than twice as much as four years ago (2006: 105.8 US-Cent/Pfund). As a special cost for the European coffee sector is the weak euro against the dollar added. This is of course good news for people having coffee for sale offered to these markets.