http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee All you wanted to know about coffee - types, processing, roasting and coffee preparation. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:57:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Both the Esmeralda Especial and the El Salvador La Montana are unusual coffees, and both owe much of their distinctiveness and value to the botanical variety of the trees that produced them (or at least to the felicitous harmony of those trees and the terroir on which they are grown). ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=17 Coffee available to American consumers comes from the four corners of the globe including Sumatra, Arabia and India, but Brazil and Colombia remain the two largest suppliers. Small trees of the madder family grow abundantly in the Colombian mountains under the watchful eye of farmers. Barely reaching heights of twenty feet ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=16 Basic Beans: Arabica or Robusta?Coffee is divided into two categories: Arabica and Robusta. These two coffees are very different from one another, starting with flavor. Arabica coffee beans produce the rich flavor and body found in a good cup of coffee; Robusta lacks this flavor and body. Arabica coffee is ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=15 The plunger method, said to have been invented in 1933, extracts the most flavour from the ground beans. The pot is warmed, coarsely ground coffee is placed in the bottom, hot water is added to the grounds and stirred, then it is allowed to steep for three to five ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=14 Although the coffee bean spread from Arabia to the rest of the world, the Arab method of making coffee did not. There is a fundamental difference between the Arab and other methods: the Arabs boil their coffee, traditionally, three times. Boiling coffee boils away the most delicate flavours, but it ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=13 INeedCoffee This coffee brewer guide is meant to assist buyer to choose the ideal single cup coffee brewer for individual use. All coffee brewers are capable of making good coffee but not all of them are designed for single cup brewing. There are several brewing methods since the discovery of coffee, and ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=12 Like Samuel Beckett, Phil Lynott, U2, Riverdance, and Guinness - all famous exports of Ireland - the classic Irish Coffee is a true child of Ireland: born on Irish soil, created with Irish ingredients. It all began in Foynes Airport, Ireland, in 1942... And about the coffee... in the original recipe, ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=11 Coffee beans were first exported from Ethiopia to Yemen. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland and began to cultivate the bean. The earliest mention of coffee may be a reference to Bunchum in the works of the 9th century CE physician Razi, but more definite information on the preparation ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=10 The history of coffee has been recorded as far back as the ninth century. During that time, coffee beans were available only in their native habitat, Ethiopia, but, when the Arab world began expanding its trade horizons, the beans moved into northern Africa and were mass-cultivated. From there, the beans ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=9 Coffea canephora (Robusta Coffee; syn. Coffea robusta) is a species of coffee which has its origins in western Africa. It is grown mostly in Africa and Brazil, where it is often called Conillon. It is also grown in Southeast Asia where French colonists introduced the crop to Vietnam in the ... http://www.infoservicesonline.com/Coffee/?p=8