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100% Kona Coffee?

Hot Coffee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:19:34 +0000

What you see is what you get? Not always. Always read the label carefully to ensure that you get 100% Kona coffee, and not just Hawaiian coffee beans mixed with other varieties. There are plenty of places to find Hawaii Kona Coffee online, but try to get it from a reputable Hawaiin company in order Continue reading →

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Coffee Grinding

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:37:56 +0000

Initially the roasted coffee bean seeds were ground by hand or in a mill. Later coffee grinders were invented so that factories could not only roast the beans but also grind them. Some people prefer to grind their own coffee beans, which made way for consumer grade coffee grinding machines. Related posts: Coffee Roasting / Continue reading →

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Coffee Roasting / Roasters

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:22:22 +0000

In the early days green coffee beans were roasted in frying pans. As often the outside was burnt while the inside was still raw, the next innovation was to roast them in little cylinders that could be turned around by a crank; just like the lotto machine. This way the beans could be roasted evenly. Continue reading →

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Coffee Cultivation

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:15:00 +0000

Coffee is made from the beans (seeds) from the red coffee berry of the coffee plant. These plants grow within a 1000 miles range from the equator, with prominent producers like Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Most coffee is consumed in areas where the coffee trees don’t grow, such Continue reading →

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Main Families of Coffee Bean Plants

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:09:16 +0000

Coffea Arabica and Coffea Robusta There are about 60 different types (species) of coffee plants. The most well-known are the worlds most “popular” tree Coffea Arabica (80% of our coffee comes from this tree) and Coffea Robusta. Coffea Arabica is also known as Coffea Canephora. The Arabica plant originated in Ethiopia, and is still grown Continue reading →

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Coffee Beans

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:22:20 +0000

Coffee beans contain a chemical called caffeine, which has a stimulating effect on the body: it gives people an energy boost and makes them more alert. Too much coffee can make people nervous, though, and may cause insomnia (difficulty sleeping). This is one of the reasons why decaffeinated coffee has earned its place on store Continue reading →

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Coffee In America

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:13 +0000

Until the late 1700s people in North America were primarily drinking tea. That is, until 1773 when a group of about 50 men boarded English ships in the Boston harbour to empty 343 tea chests into the water because the British King George III had imposed a high tax on all imported goods – including Continue reading →

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Slavery On Coffee Plantations

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:14:23 +0000

A not-so-proud episode in the history of coffee is the fact that many slaves were used to harvest the beans in the colonies like Brazil. Women and children harvested and sorted the seeds. Men were forced to prepare the land, plant the trees, prune them and digging irrigation ditches. Later they were joined by poorly Continue reading →

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Legendary Coffee Tales

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:11:32 +0000

Ethiopia – Kaldi Around 8500 AD, and Abyssinian goat herder named Kaldi witnessed his goats jumping around wildly after eating leaves and berries of a coffee plant. He then tried the coffee berries and leaves himself, and felt delighted and energetic. He showed the berries to monks in a nearby monastery, where the monks threw Continue reading →

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History Of Coffee

Hot Coffee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:10:11 +0000

The first coffee tree grew in the Kaffa region in Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia), which is in North-East Africa. The people there, called Abyssinians, initially did not drink coffee, though – they at the berries and the leaves. They also ground the beans and mixed the ground with animal fat or butter. The balls that Continue reading →

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