Everything about Robusta
There are 2 Coffea (coffee) types that comprise nearly all the coffee grown for customer consumption; these are Coffea Robusta and Coffea Arabica. Let's talk about Robusta coffee first.
Robusta species grow at lower elevations, i.e. sea level up until about 300m. It is illness resistant and produces twice the yield per tree than the Arabica coffee tree. Coffee made from Robusta species likewise consists of two times the amount of caffeine than Arabica. Here you have it: two times; twice as awake!:-RRB-.
Robusta nevertheless is seen as the inferior of the two from a coffee taste viewpoint. Having said this, the quality of the various types of Arabica and Robusta differs widely and it is possible to find Robusta that surpasses Arabica coffee in quality. Robusta cannot complete with the best Arabica crops.
You will frequently see Robusta mixed with Arabica and, in general a Robusta will produce a more bitter, heavier cup with less brightness and less fruit notes. An excellent Robusta will show chocolate and hazelnut notes.
Everything about Arabica.
You most likely will have seen on coffee loads all over the expression "100% Arabica", and questioned what it implies or stands for. This is primarily intended as an indication of quality which is used as a selling point and means precisely what it states: that 100% of the coffee in the package is made from Arabica coffee beans.
"Coffea Arabica" is among the most widely grown coffee species worldwide! Arabica coffee trees grow at fairly high altitudes (1,300-1,500 m), giving a richer bean with more concentrated flavours, a greater degree of acidity and flower and fruity notes.
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All of the world's extremely graded coffees and essentially those classified as "specialized" coffee are of the Arabica types or carefully related to it. The types itself does not guarantee quality and there is far more commercial-grade Arabica than there is specialty.
The origins of the Arabica coffee tree species can be traced back to the Ethiopian Highlands. Next time you are in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, you know what to do.
The Coffee Bean Preparation Process.
After choosing the ripe coffee cherries collected from the Coffea plant, the coffee beans are extracted by using a particular processing method. The washed procedure is the one that dominates the world of specialty coffee.
1. The newly gathered cherries are de-pulped by passing them through a cog-like rolling mechanism that pulls the skin and the majority of the flesh off the bean.
2. The coffee is fermented in a through of water to eliminate the staying mucilage. Modifications in the fermentation have a huge impact on the coffee. In this step, the "bad" beans float to the leading and are eliminated.
3. The coffee beans are dried, either sun-dried or through mechanical drying.
In general, cleaned coffee typically presents a more prominent and specified level of acidity.
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