Information About The Processing Of Coffee

By Debrah Elliot


Before you drink that cup of coffee you are holding, take note of several interesting facts about coffee - the first being that there are about 400 billion cups of coffee being drunk annually all over the world. That is the vastness of coffee lovers and drinkers worldwide! In fact, in the year 1998, coffee expenditure overtook the amount spent for tea in Great Britain.

Coffee is actually from the coffee plant which is a tropical evergreen which belongs to the genus "Coffea" under the family of "Rubiaceae." There are around 60 plants in this particular genus however there are but three being harvested commercially namely Arabica, Robusta and Libeca. Finding your coffee plant is all too easy - that is if you live in places like the Latin America, Asia and Africa. Your commercially produced coffee is being cultivated and grown between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Hawaii is the sole place that grows coffee in the United States.

When you try to break open the fruit of the coffee plant you will find two seeds looking like beans when separated that is covered by pulp and skin hence the common term used "coffee beans." The truth to the matter is that it isn't a bean, but the inside of a berry. The harvesting of these coffee berries can be very tedious. They don't ripen altogether at the same time which is why they are mostly picked by hand, harvested only when truly ripe. While there are mechanical picker machines many coffee plantation owners still prefer hand picking because these machines are not as efficient.

The extraction of coffee beans from the berries calls for two methods to choose from and one is dry and one is wet. For the first method, you are required to dry the berries under the sun for a really long period, usually several weeks, until the berries turn to brown and harden up. The second one which is the wet method involves soaking the berries in water for several days before you can dry them up under the sun or if you have a drying machine, you can have them dried here. Most prefer the dry method because this is easier and is at the same time cheaper.

The process does not end there of course as there is still that one important part - the one which determines the flavors of your coffee, the roasting! From its green state, the coffee beans are roasted and coffee is often classified according to how dark it is roasted. The light roasts are highly popular in the United States. Exported green coffee beans ensure fresher product as its roasting takes place in the very place it is roasted, ground and sold as coffee.

Come to a Culver City coffee house if you are anywhere within the area of Los Angeles and want to enjoy the area's best cup of coffee. At Island Monarch Coffee, they use only the finest coffee beans imported from Hawaii and South America. For that freshness guarantee, they make sure that the coffee beans are roasted only after they are imported to Los Angeles and grind the beans just at the moment you place your order which could make any coffee drinker truly enjoy his cup. Through the process of reverse osmosis, the water they use is as completely purified as possible. This special water is used for all of the drinks at Island Monarch Coffee.




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