Sunday, August 14, 2011

Coffee: Is It Getting Too Complicated?

By Alex Tesla


Plain coffee is fast becoming a thing of the past. It's now quite simple 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 has become somewhat of a social club. These social clubs meet in the community or on the internet.

Where did the good old days go where you can get just a regular, good cup of coffee all throughout The united states.

It is all because there's a big craze over coffee these days. People are almost worshipping the coffee bean now. People get a thrill out of ordering and buying unique coffees from specialty shops. They really like grinding their own espresso beans. They like going to places such as Costa Rica and bringing back their unique blends. And "coffee tasting" seems to be about as popular as "wine tasting".

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

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

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

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

Do you know that there's 2 times more caffeine in a pound of tea than in the same amount of roasted coffee? This may be good news for all those of you who hate the taste of decaffeinated coffee however wait just one moment. A pound of tea will make about 160 cups while 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 as 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 therefore they have less caffeine than their food market counterparts.

There are many different types of coffee beans and way a lot of to describe in this article. Here are just a few of them:

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




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