18 Coffee Menus

Here are 18 of Coffee Menu Drinks:

1. Espresso Coffee: Fine ground coffee with hot water poured through the coffee at under pressure
2. Americano Coffee: Just mixed hot water and espresso coffee
3. Drip Coffee: Ground coffee with hot water poured a paper or metal filter
4. Pour Over Coffee: same as the above, ground coffee, hot water poured through a paper or metal filter by hand
5. French Press Coffee: Course ground coffee full immerse in hot water for 4 minutes
6. Café Mocha Coffee: A mixing of dark or milk chocolate, espresso, steamed milk and whipped cream with chocolate on top
7. White Mocha Coffee: A mixed of white chocolate, espresso, steamed milk and whipped cream on top.
8. Latte Coffee: Just mixed of steamed milk and espresso shots
9. Vanilla Latte Coffee: A mixed of Steamed milk, espresso and vanilla syrup
10. Espresso Macchiato Coffee: An Espresso shots with milk foam on the top
11. Espresso Con Panna Coffee: An Espresso topped with whipped cream
12. Blended Coffee Drink: Coffee or espresso, milk, syrup of choice and iced all blended together
13. Cappuccino Coffee: Extra foamy steamed milk, espresso
14. Iced Espresso Drinks Coffee: Espresso coffee, milk, syrup of choice and whipped cream
15. Caramel Macchiato (Starbucks Coffee Menu): Steamed milk, espresso coffee, vanilla syrup and caramel sauce
16. Cinnamon Doice Latte (Starbuck Coffee Menu): Steamed milk, espresso coffee, cinnamon doice syrup, whipped cream and cinnamon doice sprinkles.
17. Turtle Mocha coffee (Caribou Coffee Menu): Chocolate, steamed milk, espresso, caramel, whipped cream and snickers bits.
18. Berry Mocha Coffee (Caribou Coffee Menu): Chocolate, steamed milk, espresso, berry syrup, whipped cream and chocolate chips.

Black Medicine Coffee

Coffee can be served with variety of cups, large ceramic cup, small ceramic cup, tiny ceramic cup, large paper cup, medium paper cup, small paper cup, tiny paper cup, your own travel mug. Ceramic from soil may can give different taste, because the porous of ceramic still open and can absorb the coffee bitter especially of black coffee. How the coffee serve to you can make different taste because of use different cup materials.

Coffee comes can in many forms, as we all know. Black medicine will offer you several varieties of foodstuff, ranging from delicious Jaffacakes and crisps through to the more nourishing filled ciabatta, panini, bagels and soup.

You may wish to drink something other than coffee, a fine selection of teas, hot chocolate, fruit juices, freshly made fruit smoothies, milkshakes and soft drinks are available.

Choose a Coffee Bean

To choose a coffee bean can directly go to the coffee shop or special gourmet shop where the salesman are knowledgable and will spend time to educate you a different kind of coffee beans.

The tips to buy and choose a coffee bean as follows:

• Buy only roasted coffee, you can ast to the salesman when the coffee is roasted (many specialty shops will roast coffee daily). If you buy in a supermarket, don't forget to check the date of the coffee was roasted, or at least a production date.
• Good coffee bean look and smell appetizing.
• Determine what kind of coffee you like, mild or full bodied, floral tasting, nutty or winy and so on.
• Learn about coffee from different growing area and which varieties are highly regarded, discover which region produce coffee that matches your tastes. Most coffee is grown in Latin America, Africa and Indonesia.
• Determine of your roast coffee preference, French roast, Italian roast that shows a darky roasted coffee, although the actual beans aren't specified.
• Many special coffee shop offer their own custom blends, but there is a standard as well: Mocha-Java for example is a famous blend of coffee from Yemen (Mocha) and Java.
• Store coffee bean and ground coffee in an aircraft conainer in a cool, dry place, if we don't use coffee bean within a week, or ground coffee with a few days. Keep the coffee in the freezer.

Starbucks Coffee Corporation

Starbucks coffee corporation is the coffee network in United States that centered in Seattle-Washington. Starbucks is the biggest coffee trade mark company in the world with more than 15,000 coffee shop spread all over the world. Starbucks is sell a hot beverage espresso coffee base, cold beverage and other hot beverage, snacks, coffee cup and coffee bean.

The development of Starbucks is beginning on 1900s, with opening about 226 coffee shop, this development is continuously perform till year of 2000s. At the end of 2008, Starbucks have about 16,226 coffee shop. 11,434 coffee shop locate in United States. But in 1 Juli 2008 this company is closed 600 their shop in United Stated and fired of about 1000 their employees, this become the end of their development.

This closing because of economic crisis condition and bad political situation in the world especially of the bad image of the world population to American domination product on this world, many coffee shops are invaded by locals.

Coffee Toffee

Coffee toffee is the retail beverage business, especially coffee, chocolate and tea. Indonesian coffee toffee locate in Surabaya, already stand on 2006 offer to the collage who want to build coffee business on their area. At the coffee toffee company, the artisan Gourmet toffee is made by hand with 100% pure slow roasted premium coffee.

Coffee shop on coffee toffee made perfectly in small batches, using only the best quality ingredients, it is the perfect ending to a fabulous dinner, a great party favor for any event or just an indulgent way to satisfy to your sweet tooth.

The content on the coffee may as follows:

• “coffee-ness”: 4(an excellent balance of coffee flavor and chocolate.)
• nutritional facts: 1 (550 calories / 21 grams of fat / 83 carbs / 68 grams of sugar) YIKES! (not sure i would waste that many calories on this snack.)

Coffee Prince

This coffee is more just a serial drama on the TV film.

Story Summary:
The life of Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun Hye) is not easy; she works many jobs to pay off debts and even gave up her feminine image. Choi Han Kyul (Gong Yoo) is the heir of a big food company, but his grandmother wants him to settle down, so she arranged many dates for him. After Eun Chan bumped into Han Kyul and was mistaken for a boy, Han Kyul decided to hire Eun Chan to be his gay lover in order to avoid the arranged dates. Desperately in need of money, Eun Chan had no choice but to accept. Han Kyul’s grandmother also made Han Kyul in charge of a filthy coffee shop in danger of being bankrupt. Eun Chan begged to work at the coffee shop, and not long after, feelings start to spark, except, how would Han Kyul accept his “homosexuality”?

Casting Stars:
Yoon Eun Hye as Go Eun Chan
Gong Yoo as Choi Han Kyul
Lee Sun Gyun as Choi Han Sung
Chae Jung Ahn as Han Yoo Joo
Extended Cast
Kim Ja Ok as Han Kyul’s mom
Choi Il Hwa as Han Kyul’s dad
Kim Young Ok as Han Kyul’s grandmother
Park Won Sook as Eun Chan’s mom
Kim Chang Wan as Hong Gae Sik (ex-Coffee Prince president)
Kim Jae Wook as No Sun Ki
Kim Dong Wook as Jin Ha Rim
Lee Un as Hwang Min Yeop
Lee Han Wie as Mr. Ku (the butcher that likes Eun Chan’s mom)
Han Yeh In as Go Eun Sae (Eun Chan’s sister)
Kim Jung Min as DK (Yoo Joo’s ex-boyfriend)
Choi Eun Seo (the girl who wants to learn to make waffles)
Min Seo Hyun
Yoon Seung Ah
Jo Hyun Sook
Han Da Min as Han Byul
Lee Joon Ha

Production Credits
Original Work: Lee Sun Mi
Screenwriter: Lee Jung Ah and Jang Hyun Joo (장현주)
Producer: Lee Eun Kyu
Director: Lee Yoon Jung

Other Real Coffee:

• Coffee Espresso
• Instant Coffee
• Robusta and Arabica

Starbucks Coffee Flavored

Generally people who like to drink coffee, they just drink instant coffee that make very easily. Just provide hot water and pour to cup and mixed with instant coffee that usually have mixed with sugar, or just use three in one coffee that a mixed of usual coffee, powder milk and sugar. The real coffee prefer said that instant coffee never been so enjoyable.

Starbuck coffee coffee also available in an instant type that made by perfectly roasted, uniquely flavored cup of perfection. Starbuck in  a coffee shop can make more variation like using natural flavors of vanilla, cocoa, spicy cinnamon or smooth caramel, with new Starbuck flavored coffee, this mixing can make you away your old flavor coffee that just mixed from hot water and coffee mix in a cup.

Starbuck coffee is a mixing of finest ingredient including Korinji cinnamon, molasses and 100% of Arabica coffee beans, this new on the go flavors that quickly become a part of your morning commute or flavored camping spot.

ABC Coffee, Kapal Api Coffee

If we survey to market and ask to the coffee seller they will recommend Milk ABC coffee and Kapal Api Black coffee, the best sell coffee in Indonesia. Both of this coffee is hold the marketing right just by PT Santos Jaya Abadi.

This coffee have natural taste, and mix by other ingredient to make the coffee taste not too hard like original coffee. Original coffee just like by coffee maniac but mixed coffee prefer by many people that include of non coffee maniac. The most people in the world like coffee but they are not coffee maniac, so this market is bigger that coffee maniac. The successful of coffee producer is because they know who are the wide market on their area.

Coffee product domination is run long time, after this product being launch and advertising on TV. But just advertising is not enough, the product taste must be proven. If the taste is not suitable with almost all people, this product can't stay longer, like many product on the market.

ABC and Kapal api are coffee origin from Indonesia, the characteristic of domination coffee product in Indonesia are cheap and affordable price, also the taste should be suitable for Indonesian tongue. Good coffee like Starbucks coffee usually taste bitter and may the aroma still coffee origin but mostly general people don't like this kind of taste.

Coffee Product Domination

I am live in Indonesia, that very close to coffee product. Yes I am drink a coffee, every day, yes every day. Do you think that this habit can make my health is not good? I don't know, but untill now I don't have any seriouse problem to my health.

Indonesian coffee product are dominated by certain trade mark on every certain type of coffee. Black coffee is dominated by "Kapal Api" coffee, but milk coffee is dominated by "ABC" coffee, while instant coffee is always dominated by "Nescafee". This image is being spread on every place especially in Java of Indonesia.

If you go to other places, this domination also change, in Bali people will consume of Bali coffee and many other coffee that come from outside of this island, like toraja coffee, medan coffee and of course Luwak Coffee that be the most expensive coffee in the world.

The domination of those trade mark coffee really difficult to against, people like have unite with this coffee and every kind of coffee also have their own consument so that they don't affected by other new trade mark that almost available everytime.

Many Kind Coffee From Indonesia

Indonesia as tropical country cultivate many kind of coffee that spread in Indonesian Archipelago. Many kind coffee can grow up in Indonesia because beside of the archipelago country, Indonesia also have many places that have high position so temperature and climate can be placed in certain place and many kind of climate conditions can be customized in certain places

Coffee that produced in Indonesia such as:

Torabica Capucino
Made from finest coffee beans. Torabika brings the most wonderful coffee drinking experience into your home. Product of torabika coffee is pack in several kind like 3 in 1 mixtures of coffee, sugar and milk. Torabica product made from coffee beans that bring the most wonderful coffee drinking experience into your home.

Arabica Coffee Bean
This Arabica Coffee available in green and roasted condition. There many kind of Arabica coffee cultivated in Indonesia, for example Sumatera Original Arabica Coffee Beans that sold with about US$ 2 – 4 with minimum order 1000 kg.

Javanese Coffee Bean
This kind of coffee bean cultivated in Dampit, Malang, East Java . there are many grade of this coffee, from grade 1 to grade 4.

Luwak Coffee:
Luwak coffee is originated from Indonesian through complex process that resulted of coffee luwak. This luwak coffee also has knows as the expensive coffee in the world. Coffee luwak product have many kind of trade mark like “Kopi Luwak Civet” that pack in 150 gram of weight per pack. Luwak coffee is sell with the FOB price about US$ 100 to US$ 150 per bag. Luwak Coffee High Class available in Dark Medium Roast, ground or whole bean, each bag is 200 gram or 7.05 oz. FOB price: US$ 8.5 – 15. Luwak Coffee Delight, elegant smooth intense deep body with sweet spicy notes and dark chocolate finished. FOB price US$ 40 per bag.

Indonesian Arabica Robusta Coffee
Indonesian robusta coffee available in qualified coffee bean or roasted coffee. This Arabica and robusta coffee cultivated in Tana Toraja – Makasar – Indonesia.

Bali Coffee
Bali coffee beans are available in many kind of coffee bean like green Arabica green robusta, roasted soluble, etc.) with FOB price about 100 kg. Price FOB US$ 15 – 20.

Excelso Coffee
Excelso coffee is a specially gourmet coffee produced from the finest high quality beans and roasted to achieve perfection.

Coffee Espresso

Espresso coffee is coffee that produced using espresso machine. The traditional coffee maker from Italy using this machine to produce Italian coffee beverage that called as Espresso. The espresso coffee machine is developing as the technology improvement, there are a manual model and also available of using engine to run this machine depend on the production capacity.

The taste of this coffee depend on the varying the fineness of the grind, the amount of pressure used to tamp the grind, or the pressure on the production process can make the taste of this coffee vary. Espresso machine may also completed with steam and froth liquids, to include milk, for beverages such as the cappuccino and latte.

The first espresso machine were steam types, produced when a common boiler was piped to four group heads so that multiple types of coffee could be made at the same time. Coffee machine in modern era have introduced in coffee shop like cafe in many country usually have this kind machine to produce coffee vastly but with controlled taste.

Luwak Coffee the Most Expensive Coffee

If say a state with a crisis and disaster, Indonesia's is the top ranking in this world. Indonesia is also practically the greatest country of corruption, its mean that Indonesia has greatest income but lost income doe to corrupted by people. Country with a very high gap between the rich and the poor. Why is that? Because here, there is the most expensive source of income and the largest consumption in many countries.

Indonesia is famous for natural wealth, have long been hunted by European countries for spices from Indonesia. The most expensive of spices are in Indonesia, the wealth natural sources are in Indonesia, if we know it.

Cancer and AIDS drugs sourced from Indonesia, if we want to explore. People looking for herbal cancer drug to many countries, it was the medicine only from Indonesia can be found here Rodent Taro for cancer medicine and buah merah from irian jaya. Also the most expensive tobacco available in Indonesia. The most expensive coffee in the world is in Indonesia, it’s called “Kopi Luwak” or Luwak Coffee.

As the drink material, coffee drinks including the largest asset that needs by lot of people in the world, and even on second ranks after drink water. I’m sure can reach of 1 billion people drink coffee even though not every day.

Because of its popularity, not surprising that there are tens, even hundreds of new varieties found intentionally or not appear. Starting from the known to Arabica coffee, Yamen Mocha, Java, Oxaca, etc.. All of these types of varieties, race to supply the coffee world needs, meet the high level of demand from various countries in the world.

Brazil known as the largest coffee producing country in the world. This country supplies 2/3 or approximately 67.77% as coffee exporters. The next country is Kenya. Country located in eastern Africa relies on coffee as its main commodity. According to FAO, Indonesia is the third ranks as the world's largest supplier of coffee. There are three types of Indonesian coffee products mainstay to supply to the countries in the world. To 3 types of coffee is known as the Sumatran coffee (Mandheling Lintong), Sulawesi, and Luwak. Sumatra coffee is the basic material in the manufacture or Coffee Espresso Doppio (double espresso) that have the strong black aroma, drowsiness relievers.

Coffee that is already known as Star Bucks, which has no less than 100 outlets scattered in each country, using raw materials of Sulawesi coffee. Sulawesi coffee, better known abroad Village Coffee called this by Star Buck used as raw material mix their drinks range. Starting from Latte Macchiato, Viennese roast, Hazelnut chereme, etc.

Luwak coffee is the most peculiar types of Indonesia coffee, or even in the world. Why? Because the process beginning from how harvesting the coffee beans is very different from others coffee. Coffee is generally harvested first and then the seeds are picked when ripe. Meanwhile, the process of picking Luwak coffee, can say a little bit disgusting. When the coffee beans are ripe, the farmers lets off their Luwak (similar with civet) to eat the seeds that fell down. Then they are waiting for Luwak throw their feces. Well! Coffee beans that came out along with Luwak's feces taken for further processing.

Many experts doubt how this fermentation case. However, researchers in Canada research to prove, that the protein content in Luwak's stomach, making the beans ferment and mature more perfect. Thus, the resulting feeling much better and solid than others coffee. Once was a researcher come from the UK, traced over Java only to prove the truth of the Luwak coffee myth. However, until a month he was around Java, no one who can show the existence of this Luwak coffee. So he says that Luwak coffee myth is just a lie "it's a big Scam", he said.

However, Kopi Luwak is entered into the list of the most enjoyable coffee and the most wanted. The price in the world market soared, 635 U.S. dollars must be spent to get 1 kg of Luwak coffee. In America itself, to taste Luwak coffee, we should spend about 50 U.S. dollars, when convert to Indonesian prices range from approximately 400 to 500 thousand rupiah. JUST FOR ONE CUP! is equivalent to the price of 2 Ribs Tony Romas, that is worth of 200 thousand rupias. That figures are very fantastic just to sip for a cup of coffee. This phenomenal coffee even becomes hot topic in America, and in the Oprah Winfrey Show. This American Reality show that is organized by Oprah was watched by no less than 4 million people every day.

Coffee Trademark

There are many coffee trademark in over the world, every trademark have special specification and taste. Here are some of them:

1. Starbuck of Ethiopia, Ethiopia is one of the poorest country in the world, they want starbuck become one of their export commodity to help on increasing their economic. Ethiopia have success to market their coffee been to autside country, the country revenue from coffee was $7.8 billion in year of 2006.
2. Costa Rica Coffee, these coffee mostly cultivate in Tarrazu region, the name of their coffee cultivation border area. Guatemala and Ethiopia also invested on this area to cultivate their coffee on this region.
3. Vietnamese Coffee, Vietnam being rocket their coffee product export. In 2007, Vietnam is ranked on the second position of the coffee exporting countries in the world. In the year of 2007 estimated will have coffee field to 174,000 ha, they produce of 435,000tonnes of coffee bean. From this commodity Vietnam will get a turnover of over 479 million USD in 2007.
4. Jamaica’s Coffee of Jamaica.
5. Indonesian Coffee, coffee in Indonesia have many kinds, for example Lampung Coffee, Bali Coffee, Medan Coffee and many others, but most called as Indonesian Coffee. For this year Indonesia rose their coffee exported. For year of 2008, they export 437,000 tones of coffee bean.
6. Robusta and Arabica Coffee, this coffee mostly cultivate in Congo.

Instant Coffee

So many people in this world consume Coffee, as their favorite beverages. It is definitely my liquid of choice, with all the invigorating caffeine, great taste, and wonderful-smelling volatile flavor, which gives coffee a sweet, fruity aroma. Organic, fair-trade whole-bean coffee is my preference, but those with less patience may desire long-lasting, easy-to-prepare "instant" soluble formulations.

Much modification to this product in order can save in long time, and still have good taste and flavor. Until the eastern country the Japanese begin their research to this product. The Japanese were the first to produce a stable instant coffee product in the early 1900s. During World War II, instant coffee gained fame among American soldiers after Nestlé marketed its Nescafé brand.

The instant beverage was updated in 1963, when Kraft introduced its Maxwell House freeze-dried instant coffee, which the company claimed tastes more similar to fresh-brewed coffee than other instant coffee products. Within a few years, all major manufacturers had freeze-dried coffee products on the market.

Taste and smell aside, most people drink coffee in all of its incarnations for that energizing alkaloid compound—caffeine. According to the National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, instant coffee has about two-thirds the caffeine content of fresh-brewed coffee. More precisely, 8 oz of freshly brewed coffee contains 95 mg of caffeine, whereas the same amount of instant coffee has only 62 mg of caffeine.

But the caffeine content of coffee depends on many factors, including coffee bean species, bean ripeness, and the roasting and brewing processes. Thus, citations of caffeine content in different coffee beverages are reported with exceedingly wide ranges, and the database figures are more a rule of thumb than law.

All instant coffee production involves roasting coffee beans and then brewing them in hot water. Before the brew can be further processed into instant coffee, oxygen and insoluble particles such as coffee grounds must be removed. After this, the brew is dried by one of two methods to yield instant coffee.

One common way to desiccate the brew is through spray-drying: The coffee is sprayed through a nozzle to produce tiny 300-µm-sized droplets that fall through drying towers until they reach the base as a parched powder. The drying towers are kept at high pressures and temperatures near 270 ºC. The fine coffee powder may be rewetted to produce larger granules that are dried and finally packaged.

In the freeze-drying process, the brewed coffee is first frozen and then crushed to obtain the desired granule size. Standard & Alternative Products (SAAP), which produces instant coffee products, aims for granules of about 3 mm in diameter, for example. Granules that are too large or small are melted and refrozen. Frozen granules of the proper size are placed in low-pressure drying chambers at –50 ºC, and the water is removed by sublimation as the drying chamber warms.

Both processes run the risk of losing compounds that contribute to the desirability of the drink. For instance, caffeine sublimates at 180 °C at atmospheric pressure, so the high temperatures in spray-drying chambers may affect instant coffee's caffeine content and the content of organic compounds that provide taste and aroma. Whichever process is used, the final product is often packaged under carbon dioxide or nitrogen because the presence of oxygen will cause further loss of aroma and flavor.

Good Profit for Coffee Mix Product

Many product have overcame a crisis right now, but coffee industry still survive with a good profit. Many coffee industry in this world, in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and in Indonesia. This manufacture just little disruption to the production of mainly exported because of the bank financial problem, but basically the production will normal again after the Bank can running their system again.

Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd is an integrated manufacturer of instant beverages and popular convenience food products headquartered in Singapore. Super Coffeemix was listed in the Singapore Exchange in 1994, and subsequently achieving Mainboard listing status in 1998. The Group achieved record highs in net profit attributable to shareholders, which grew 28 percent to reach S$23.3 million, and in revenue, which climbed to S$187.9 million for the financial year 2005.

Adopting a global outlook, the Group operates internationally with manufacturing facilities in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Myanmar and Indonesia and a network of direct sales offices and distributors strategically located to reach Asia-Pacific and world markets.

The beverage range extends from coffee, cereal, tea, herbal tea can drinks and fruit flavoured drinks. The convenience food range includes cup noodles, potato chips and cream cake.

Robusta and Arabica

If you be a coffee devotee, may need to know the different between many coffee available in the market. Even many people know that coffee contains of caffeine, but many people also favor of coffee. There are two famous coffee in a market, Robusta coffee and Arabica Coffee. Arabica Coffee may be the most commonly consumed coffee plant but Coffee Robusta accounts for approximately 25% to 40% of the coffee grown in the world. Discovered in 1898 in Congo, Robusta Coffee is the most commonly grown variety of the Coffea canephora species of coffee plant. It is popular among growers because it can grow in less rigid conditions than Arabica Coffee.

The Robusta Coffee plant is a robust shrub that can grow up to heights of 10 to 12 feet. Unlike Coffea Arabica coffee plants, the Robusta coffee plant does not need to grow at high altitudes. As a result, it is grown in areas that are between sea level and 800 meter elevation ranges. Additionally, Robusta coffee plants require less care to grow due to the fact that it is hardier. This means that it is the cheaper of the two main types of coffee plants to grow. Robusta Coffea has a shallow root system and the fruits that grow from the plant take up to 11 months to mature. The cherries that grow on the robusta coffee plant require less care, as they remain on the trees after it ripens. Additionally, coffea robusta has an advantage over coffea arabica for coffee growers, as this coffee plant species tends to be less susceptible to problems related to pests and rough handling. As a result, robusta coffee plans tend to yield more pounds of finished coffee beans per acre at a lower cost of production than arabica coffee plants. Many countries who cultivate those coffee are as follows:

Robusta countries:

Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Angola, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Timor, Borneo, Vietnam, and Celebes.

Arabica countries:

Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hawaii, Yemen, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea.

Arabica, Robusta and Jamaica Coffee

The coffee tree is indigenous to Ethiopia, not Arabia as many tend to think and belongs to the genus Coffea of the Rubianceae, or madder, family.

The first English coffee house opened in Oxford in 1650 and by 1675 there were nearly 3000 coffee houses in England.

Johann Sebastian Bach is thought to have been a devoted coffee lover and wrote a secular work "The coffee cantata - Kaffe Kantate" in 1732 that includes an aria "Mm! How sweet coffee tastes! More delicious than a thousand kisses, sweeter by far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."

Seedlings produced by the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens, later classified as Coffea arabica var arabica account for most of the billions of trees now growing in South and Central America and the Caribbean.

The next most important strain of arabica (var bourbon) came from French plantations on the Indian Ocean island Reunion, originally called Bourbon.

The other commercially important species, Coffea canephora (usually referred to as robusta) is also a native of Africa and now accounts for 20% of world exports.

There are a number of varieties of both arabica and robusta. In Jamaica, only arabica is grown and according to the 1953/1983 Regulations "blue mountain coffee means: coffee seed that is grown in the Blue Mountain Area as described in the Schedule; and processed or manufactured at any coffee works specified in the Schedule and to which a license granted pursuant to regulation 5 relates."

The quality of the beans is graded into Blue Mountain No. 1 - 3, Pea Berry and Triage. Other grades of Jamaican coffee include: High Mountain Supreme, Jamaica Prime and Jamaica Select. In its wild state, the shrub grows to about 8 to 10 meters.

Although Jamaica does not have much of the world market in terms of production (International Coffee Organisation), the beans are well known for their exceptional quality and Blue Mountain coffee commands extremely high prices. Blue Mountain Peak stands approximately 2256 m (7402 feet) high, the average rainfall for Jamaica is about 198 cm (78 inches) and the average temperature is 27 C (82 F). Together with sunshine every day and good soil, it all contributes to not only great coffee but the land of "wood and water" presents an incredibly beautiful environment to live and work in.

A brief history of Jamaican coffee from the Jamaican Coffee Industry Board or the Jamaican Gleaner History series. It is interesting to note that coffee arabica was characterised by Linnaeus in 1753 by which time Jamaica had been growing coffee for 25 years.

Coffee Choice

The following would hardly make it through an academic review process, but here are some observations based on our 2008 sampling of reader nominated coffees (this speculation has a margin of error of somewhere around 100%).

1. Current specialty coffee drinkers may be losing interest in extreme dark roasts, and fewer small regional roasting companies are roasting all of their coffees dark regardless of origin.
2. On the other hand, few of the smaller roasters we sampled have migrated to the newly trendy medium-to-light roasts. Most are situating themselves right in the middle of the roast spectrum — in artisan-roasting terms, just into the second crack.
3. Small roasting companies and their customers continue to interest themselves in coffees certified Fair Trade and organic.
4. It appears that few of the nominated roasting companies have jumped onto the micro-lot bandwagon. (Micro-lots are very tiny lots of extremely refined coffees, usually sourced directly from small growers.) Most nominated coffees appear to be from old-fashioned macro-lots sourced through the regular specialty supply chain, identified rather broadly by origin, coffee type, certification or occasionally farm. Names were familiar, ranging from Tanzanian Peaberry (a favorite, with several nominations) through well-established Central American estate names to plain old Colombia.
5. Small roasting companies continue to sport names that lean toward the rustic and irreverent: Rusty Car Roasters, Muddy Dog Roasters, Wildfire Roasters, and not reviewed here, Black Bear Microroastery (with its Hibernation Blend) and Pike's Perk (in Colorado of course).
6. The great majority of nominations came from the middle part of the country, between the coasts. It may be that readers and roasters in those parts of the country feel left out, though I hope not. The reader who nominated the excellent Yirgacheffe from San Antonio-based Wildfire Coffee Roasters (90) wrote that he "would like to see a roaster from a non-traditional (for most roasters) part of the U.S. get a mention."
7. The quality of this sampling overall was arguably better than past Readers' Choice samplings. There seemed to be fewer outright defective green coffees and more tactful, origin-sensitive roasting.
8. On the other hand, a surprising number of mildly musty coffees turned up, though most were the kind displaying the pleasant, roundly rich kind of mustiness that can be safely glamorized as earthy. 

What is your choice of coffee product?

Coffee Bean

This blog will contains of about coffee and many other story who related with coffee like this one.

The United States consumes one-fifth of all the world's coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agriculture workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as "sweatshops in the fields." Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt.

Fair Trade is a viable solution to this crisis, assuring consumers that the coffee we drink was purchased under fair conditions. To become Fair Trade certified, an importer must meet stringent international criteria; paying a minimum price per pound of $1.26, providing much needed credit to farmers, and providing technical assistance such as help transitioning to organic farming. Fair Trade for coffee farmers means community development, health, education, and environmental.

Coffee prices have plummeted and are currently around $.60-$.70 per pound. "With world market prices as low as they are right now, we see that a lot of farmers cannot maintain their families and their land anymore. We need Fair Trade now more than ever," says Jerónimo Bollen, Director of Manos Campesinas, a Fair Trade coffee cooperative in Guatemala. Meanwhile coffee companies have not lowered consumer prices but are pocketing the difference. "The drastic fall in coffee prices means, in two words, poverty and hunger for thousands of small producers in Latin America," says Merling Preza Ramos, Director of PRODECOOP Fair Trade cooperative in Nicaragua