Choosing the right coffee beans in South Africa
Coffee beans in South Africa come in all tastes and varieties. While the type of coffee machine will influence the taste of the coffee, the type of beans used is the most important factor to consider when buying coffee products for your home or office. There are many coffee bean suppliers in South Africa, all professing that their beans are superior to their rivals’ products. However, equipping yourself with some basic knowledge about what to look for in a quality coffee bean will help you separate the winning beans from the wannabes....
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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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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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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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There are many legends about the discovery of coffee‘s stimulating effects. One of the oldest tells of a young goatherd in Ethiopia in around 850 AD. He had noticed that after eating a certain kind of berry, his goats would become particularly lively. Monks then tried the fruit but were so disappointed by the bitter flavour that they threw it in the fire. Soon, a delicious aroma was wafting around their nostrils. The monks were so curious that they used the roasted fruits to create a brew, which they saw as a gift from G-d because it...
read moreCoffee Beans: Differences Between Arabica and Robusta Coffee Beans
Arabica beans and robusta beans are two different species of coffee grown commercially for consumption as coffee. The general differences are those of taste, the conditions under which the two species grow and economic differences. Arabica coffee beans are considerably higher in price and therefore used for most premium coffee bean blends whereas robusta coffee beans are typically found in instant coffees are are used as fillers in blends (a 70:30 blend consists of 70 percent arabica coffee beans and 30 percent robusta coffee...
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