I was asked to explain why our coffee tastes so unique today, so heres a simple answer ITALIAN ROAST IS: The vast majority of coffee produced and drunk in the world is lower quality ‘commodity’ grade. This coffee is used in most mainstream blends (as well as for other basic coffee products). It is often roasted more darkly, and used when quite stale, to create the generic coffee-flavour that many people have come to expect. Lower grade arabica, and robusta, falls into this category. SPECIALITY GRADE ARABICA COFFEE (used in GOOGIES & MANIFEST) Speciality grade arabica coffees, on the other hand, by their nature make up a much smaller percentage, but are of a higher quality, and have the potential to demonstrate how varied and delicious coffee can be. Their flavours will often be remarkably different to the conventional, homogenous ‘coffee flavour’ that people might expect, because great coffee can be more interesting and exciting than that! The best speciality coffee is traceable to individual farms, and more seasonal. It is therefore fresher, as a seasonal crop, and then also freshly roasted, and used fresh. It is produced, harvested, and ideally also roasted and prepared, more carefully. This type of coffee is used for espresso within the modern artisan (or ‘Third Wave‘) coffee movement, and baristas like those in Googies aim to showcase the natural flavour characteristics of these coffees. Information courtesy of the Bean Vagrant https://twitter/TheBeanVagrant
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 06:59:29 +0000
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