The Best Coffee Beans

Posted by michael on Oct 26, 2011 in Coffee Beans | 9 comments

If you are like us, you are constantly on the lookout for the best coffee beans. The best coffee blend is often a secret recipe consisting of the best coffee beans from each region. So what makes coffee beans good or bad? The quality of coffee beans has a lot to do with where the beans are grown. A general rule of thumb is, coffee beans which are grown somewhere within the equatorial belt at high altitudes (above 3000 metres) and grown in the wild ( not in a pesticide full farm) are the best. And the perfect bean is largely based upon the...

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Coffee Storage: The Ultimate Short Guide

Posted by michael on Oct 25, 2011 in Coffee Beans | 22 comments

 You’ve just bought the state of the art coffee machine and the best freshest coffee beans around. What a shame it would be if those coffee beans would now stale. Here’s how to prevent that form happening Coffee roasters frequently are asked questions about coffee storage. Should coffee be stored in the refrigerator? The freezer? Away from sunlight? In glass jars? The truth is that there are many myths wandering around the coffee world about coffee storage, some of them repeated so often that they’ve taken on the patina of...

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Storing Coffee Beans

Posted by michael on Oct 25, 2011 in Coffee Beans | 6 comments

How should I store my coffee beans?  What’s the best place to keep coffee beans ? What’s the best storage method for coffee beans? How long before my coffee beans stale? Should you freeze it or just refrigerate it? Store it in jars, paper, plastic bags or fancy valve bags?  Does it really matter if it’s whole bean or ground? I mean, come on. How much time do I have before my World’s Best Coffee goes stale…Really? These are questions that concern most specialty-coffee buyers.  The issue of storage has been greatly...

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Coffee Machines in South Africa

Posted by Aquaspresso on Oct 25, 2011 in Coffee Machines | 13 comments

Coffee machines in South Africa (za coffee machines), like most things these days are identical to the range you can get overseas…with the following exceptions. Pod coffee machines and capsule coffee machines are hugely dominant overseas. Due to this fact you will find hundreds of different brands overseas including Keurig,Kenco,Flavia and many more. The reason for the huge popularity of these coffee machines overseas is large due to the fact that coffee at restaurants is so expensive and pod and capsule prices are very cheap. In South...

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Coffee Machines for the Office : How to select the right office coffee machine

Posted by michael on Oct 24, 2011 in Coffee Machines | 20 comments

Office coffee Machines: When it comes to selecting the right office coffee machine, the two obvious things to consider are quality and cost. Office coffee machines consist of the following options: Filter coffee machines, automatic coffee machines and vending coffee machines. The best in order of quality is : Automatic coffee machines then filter coffee machines and then vending coffee machines.Vending coffee machines used to be most popular but as times have progressed people have become more discerning when it comes to their coffee and even...

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