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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 31 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
It is said that the French press coffee maker creates the best coffee in the world. This is because of the process it is made with, and just maybe the coffee put in it.
The French press coffee maker has a long beaker made of glass, where sugar and coffee ( premium connoisseur peaberry coffee ) is added. Nothing else is added to it but water, which is then heated and brought to a boil. Once the water is boiling, there will be a plunger of a silver foil which needs to be slowly lowered towards the bottom of the beaker.
As the plunger goes down, the frothy, fresh and aromatic coffee will come up and the residue will be separated by the plunger. The premium connoisseur peaberry coffee made by this method is just amazing. It can be compared to some extent with any world class premium connoisseur coffee. Since the beaker has complete control over the temperature inside and out, the coffee can be served piping hot anytime you want it.
There are other names given to the coffee made by a French press coffee maker. People know this type of coffee as the cafetiere, presspot and/ or the plunger and it is a hot favorite all over the world, why not make one at your home too. Because it is using hot water and freshly grounded coffee beans, it gives an exceptionally strong, rich and flavorful coffee which amply deserves the name of the connoisseur coffee maker.
The world is full of coffee - filter coffee, vacuum coffee, milk coffee, that coffee, this coffee - but nothing can be ever tastier than premium connoisseur peaberry coffee made in a French press coffee maker. Let me tell you why, if you are curious to know. To best understand why the French press coffee maker makes the best possible cup of coffee, you need to know how the coffee is prepared in this process, as well as the second to none in fine coffee drinking enjoyment of premium connoisseur peaberry coffee.
The type of coffee you are using for this type of coffee is very important. Usually, for best results, coffee which is obtained from fried beans and then ground with the help of a burr grinder is used. This type of grinder grinds the coffee in a granulated form instead of powder.
Because of this, the beans will maintain the richest flavor and this same flavor will get soaked in the heated water used in the French press coffee maker. Once you taste a cup of coffee made this way, it is doubtful you will ever enjoy anything else again.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 30 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
100% pure Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee from Tarrazu estate farms with no filler beans.
All Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee are 100% Arabica beans. The near-perfect growing conditions of the rich volcanic soil and mild, high altitude climate contribute to the awesome elegance of this world class coffee. Full-bodied richness with excellent acidity. You’ll enjoy an unusually silky yet robust flavor with a bold taste and a beguiling aroma that creates a wonderfully eloquent and complex profile.
It’s a flawless gourmet, sustainably grown coffee. Grown on fertile volcanic soils at 5,000 feet above sea level, this coffee is enhanced by natural nutrients and minerals. It is grown on small farms and picked by hand, wet processed, using ecological methods that limit water use and contamination to local streams, and then carefully dried. The result is a wonderful peaberry bean of the highest quality.
The higher altitudes that these Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee beans are grown at produce better beans, not only because they have the effect of increasing the acidity of the bean and thereby improving the flavor, but also because the cold nights that occur at the higher altitudes mean that the trees develop more slowly, which also the beans to develop a fuller flavor. The regular rainfall that is caused by precipitation at the higher altitudes is also essential for the proper development of the trees. These advantages are offset by the higher access and transportation costs which drive up the price of this fine gourmet Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee.
Our Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee is sun-dried and of the highest quality, and prestige, found in the market. We take great care to provide as many quality safeguards as necessary to harvest and roast the top of the highland coffee. Grown on small coffee farms with only the finest beans selected. Our highland farms have expert agriculturists with over a century of experience with Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee bean harvesting and processing. Our farming partners are paid a fair trade coffee price that far exceeds their cost of production to allow them to lead a rewarding life for their talents.
Our packaging provides as many safeguards as necessary to protect freshness and prevent quality loss in each Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee bag. Each package is freshly roasted only after we receive your spotajava coffee order, then package in a one-way valve to maintain freshness during shipping and for storage.
The Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee estate located at the more remote lands up the Pirris River basin in the Highlands. The estate represents the Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee with character, where the coffee is clearly farmed for quality and not quantity, and this is clearly reflected in your coffee cup.
Care for the Environment - Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee Shade Grown and Organic
This fine Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee is shade grown and without pesticides or fertilizers. The shade provides balance with the environment and gives home to the many bird species that inhabit the region. The birds in turn eat the insects that feed on the tender coffee plants eliminating the need for pesticides. The rich volcanic soil does not require any fertilizer and because there are no pesticides or fertilizer used this coffee qualifies as organic Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee. The ultimate indulgence.
A concern for the environment has been of great concern for our Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee farms. The farm has been a family farm for generations and they have kept a natural forest for years. This 100 hectares forest reserve is located in San Pedro, La Guaria and Naranjillo. The reserve is located close to Manuel Antonio National Park near Quepos, one of the best-known National Parks in the world. It is now a National Private Protected Area, which forbids people from hunting, extracting wood or doing any damage to the area.
We invite you to try our Premium Connoisseur Peaberry coffee. You will find that it is the best coffees you have ever tasted.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 29 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
When your coffee drinking pleasure demands only the very best tasting, freshest coffee, look than no further than SpotaJava Coffee newest coffee Premium
Connoisseur Peaberry. Combining all of the qualities of the best gourmet coffees and the most famous coffee, there is no finer coffee bean available on the whole entire planet.
If you are looking at the most famous and best gourmet coffees, then Jamaica Blue Mountain, Kona, and Costa Rican are most common trait. They are grown in volcanic mountain regions. Like the finest wine region of Italy and France, the best gourmet coffee have an areas were the coffee bean flavor thrives. The two most significant aspects of the best gourmet coffee are soil and altitude.
At higher elevations different factors come together in process of growing the best gourmet coffee. Late afternoon cloud cover defends the coffee plants from an undue amount of direct sunlight. The clouds comprises of moisture, which lightly waters the coffee plants through its leaves other than through its roots.
The best gourmet coffees are mainly rated with a SHB rating that means Strictly Hard Bean rating. The coffee bean full-grown at elevated altitudes is much stronger than those grown at lower elevations. This difference places the coffee bean in the group of the best gourmet coffee rating on world coffee markets.
The disadvantage of growing this coffee at much higher altitudes is the difficulty in agricultural process.
Farms at this level are near the peaks of mountain formations that are very steep. You could even imagine the trouble of driving vehicles to these isolated locations with few paved roads. At times the ground is near about at a 45 degree angle making it very tricky to plant, farm, inspect and then pick the coffee beans from side of a mountain. More manual labor-intensive is necessary not only for farming but also for transporting the baskets important with the best coffee beans.
The distance of these locations also makes it a long and very difficult to transport them to the ports of allocation to world markets. The roads are frequently rough and stony winding up and down mountain sides and frequently beside an unsafe cliff. You could imagine the intrinsic danger concerned just in transporting a heavy truck load of the best gourmet coffee. The farmers would stride along side their ox drive cart dragging their payload. The farmers would paint multi-colored designs on the large wooden ox cart wheels that have become a sign of Costa Rican heritage even to this day.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 28 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Videos
There is nothing that beats a good gourmet flavored coffee bean. Gourmet flavored coffee beans are specially created for the coffee drinker and connoisseur. Of course, the process is unique to the gourmet coffee experience from the get go.
Flavors are extremely versatile. You can get vanilla, chocolate, mint, Tiramisu, and so many others I could never name em all.
That’s because someone is always creating brand new flavors! Coffee manufacturers know what you and I like. They make a profit knowing what to bring to us. They are people pleasers; they want your business.
Gourmet flavored coffee allows coffee manufacturers and retailers to reach their target audience: you and me. Each manufacturer has a special process that allows them to bring you your every desire. Then they make flavors you never imagined. Yet, when you taste and smell the new flavor, you wonder where it has been your whole life. Mmm, mmm, good!
Coffee retailers often roast, flavor, then package there own gourmet flavored coffee. By adding their own label, they keep your attention. They make you and I loyal coffee drinkers.
Often, coffee retailers create a unique coffee flavor and name to get your attention and keep it. Does it work? If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t keep doing it! Gourmet coffee drinkers expect only the best. Coffee connoisseurs expect their tastes and styles to be catered too. Of course, coffee retailers are more than willing to give us what we want. In addition, it is plain fun to create such flavorful examples of artist coffee.
Yes, gourmet flavored coffee is an artistic form of self exploration. A lot can be discovered by taking notice of the type of gourmet coffee someone drinks and prefers. Are you a decaf or regular? Whole coffee bean or coffee ground? Flavored or non-flavored? Gourmet or non-gourmet? The choices are endless.
Some people like a regular coffee mug of Java, others, like me, enjoy a gourmet flavored coffee, buttered rum is my choice. Whatever flavor you prefer, there is a gormet flavored coffee for you.
Maybe you aren’t sure which flavored coffee you prefer. Then you get the fun of tasting all sorts of flavors and smelling all sorts of unique aromas in the search of finding the perfect gourmet coffee for you. Of course, why stop at just one? Keep going and find two, three, four or more! The possibilities never end.
The true gourmet coffee snob goes one step further: they create their own flavored coffee! Yes, you too can be a closet gourmet coffee snob. Buy green coffee beans at a discount; buy an inexpensive coffee roaster; a coffee grinder. Viola! You have the ability to create your own gourmet flavored coffee.
The true coffee connoisseur enjoys only the best gourmet coffee created by his or her own hands. My best gourmet coffee snob suggestion to you, trial and error. If all else fails, create you own mixture! For you, the coffee drinker, nothing is too good. The coffee retailers and coffee manufacturers believe that, so should you.
Discover what is truly you, and what is truly not. Try drinking many types and flavors. Maybe you will be surprised by what suits your tastes. Whatever your choice, be sure to enjoy your decision.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 28 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
Decaffeination is the act of removing caffeine from coffee beans
and tea leaves. All decaffeination processes areperformed on unroasted
(green) coffee beans, but themethods vary somewhat.
They generally start by steaming the beans. The beans are then rinsed
in some solvent that contains as much of the chemical composition of coffee as
possible without also containing the caffeine in a soluble form.
The process is repeated anywhere from 8 to 12 times
until it meets either the international standard of having
removed 97% of the caffeine in the beans or the EU standard
of having less than 0.10% caffeine by mass in the coffee
at the end of the process.
Coffee contains over 400
chemicals important to the taste and aroma of the final
drink, this effectively means that no chemical reaction
will remove only caffeine while leaving the other
chemicals at their original concentrations.
While they are occasionally referred to informally as "decaffeinated,"
soft drinks without caffeine are prepared by simply leaving
caffeine out in the first place.
Coffee arabica normally
contains about half the caffeine of coffea robusta, and a
coffea arabica bean containing a tenth as much caffeine as
a normal bean has been found by some Brazilian scientists.
This may change how low caffeine coffee is produced in the
future. But for now, one of several methods is employed.
The first commercially successful decaffeination process
was invented by Ludwig Roselius and Karl Wimmer in 1905.
It involved steaming coffee beans with a brine (salt water)
solution and then using benzene as a solvent to remove the
caffeine. Coffee decaffeinated this way was sold as Cafe
sanka in France and later as Sanka brand coffee in the US.
Now THIS is the way we rock it at SpotaJava Coffee
The Swiss Water Process (SWP) method of decaffeination is a
patented process that uses water only and results in the best tasting coffee. All of our decaf coffees are processed by the "all natural" and "chemical free" Swiss Water
Process method
First, the beans are cleaned and soaked water, partially
saturated with coffee flavor solids, in preparation for
caffeine extraction.
Next, the beans are immersed in the flavor-charged water.
Initially the water is caffeine-free, and as a result the
caffeine diffuses from the beans into the water.
Since the concentration of flavor components in the bean
and in the water are equal, only the caffeine is removed,
leaving the flavor intact. The water then passes through a
carbon filter that traps the caffeine.
The now caffeine-free,
flavor-charged water flows back to the beans to remove more
caffeine. This process continues for approximately 8 hours,
until the beans are 99.9% caffeine-free.
Following decaffeination, the trapped caffeine is removed
from the carbon filter. The flavor-charged water is then
recycled to the start of the process for the next batch of
beans.
All of your shamefully rich soothingly smooth spotajava decaffeinated coffee
is processed using the swiss water process. This further guarantees
your coffee cup holds nothing less than the most extravagant coffee
drinking taste experience that you and your taste buds can have.
Be sure to login to spotajava coffee for all of your decaf coffee drinking and gift giving needs…
Home of premium connoisseur peaberry coffee…your ultimate coffee indulgence.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 27 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
First came Juan Valdez and Columbian Coffee…then came Starbucks…
Now you've got…SpotaJava Coffee 'Premium Connoisseur Peaberry'… a thrill you'll wanna shower your taste buds with again an again…
So I'm thinking we need to sort this gourmet coffee stuff out. What we need is a coffee guide…or better a connoisseur guide to good coffee.
Can any of you well traveled connoisseur types suggest topics like how to's or must haves, for this exclusive coffee companion connoisseur guide? How bout some of your best coffee tips and coffee recipes. When we have a complete coffee guide we can compile the results into a real work of art… a coffee table book…( ok a desktop icon ) like the SpotaJava Coffee free catalog for example.
I'm looking for any and all suggestions to be posted in the comments. As long as it's about coffee it's all good. How bout some comments on your favorite coffee house, coffee beverage like some tasty ice coffee.
What if you've had a really 'spit this sh!t out' experience…tell us about it…let gourmet coffee snob know bout it.
I wanna let y'all know to be on the lookout for the 'Observer'. The observer will be sharing tasty lil tidbits of knowledge or what some coffee lovers call …'headache prevention reasonability'…coming to your favorite gorumet coffee snob blog real soon…tell all of your coffee guzzlin family and friends about it.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 26 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
Coffee In recent years has become part of our culture. Small coffee shops have appeared on every corner, as well as on the Internet, boosting this caffeine-loaded drink to almost food group status. You can buy gourmet coffee online 24/7.
Not only are many shelves in the grocery store dedicated to various brands, but the dairy section is packed with varieties of creamers to match any preference. I can recall as a teenager being familiar with the Folgers and Maxwell House brands, but I really could have cared less about any of them.
Ask any teenager today and they quickly can tell you the best flavors and varieties available at the local coffee house…could this be a Starbuck's conspiracy…can you say…"Iced Decaf Triple Grande Vanilla Non-fat with whip Latte."
Cold drinks, hot drinks, whipped crème, latte, espresso and flavored creamers have made the choices and combinations endless. This drink — and the related "stay-awake benefits" — has crossed generation barriers to be a defining part of our culture. Starbucks has many flavors that can be added to drinks.
These include Almond, Caramel, Cinnamon, Coconut, Melon, Mocha, Peppermint, Raspberry, Sugar-Free Hazelnut, Sugar-Free Vanilla, Toffee Nut, Vanilla, and White Mocha in the United States. Most of these are available year-round. Some, however, can only be found on a seasonal basis.
SpotaJava Coffee has those and about 300 more taste bud pleasing coffee flavors…in regular and Swiss Water Process (SWP) decaf. Kosher coffee is also available at SpotaJava Coffee.
~~Sherrill~~
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 25 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Videos
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 25 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Gourmet Coffee Snob Sez
New Secret Iced Coffee Recipe Resource Information According to Jim Morris, author of his own personal Starbucks Frappuccino story, individuals who invest in his secret coffee recipe will learn how to create jaw-dropping drinks that are 26-57% fewer in calories than many popular coffee drinks on the market.
His easy recipes even show the reader how to make foam on top of their drinks without owning an espresso machine. In addition, his money saving coffee recipe guide provides 15 different coffee drink varieties that can be created from one core formula.
In an effort to solve the cost factor associated with paying high prices for coffee, some consumers are searching for a way to recreate their favorite famous coffee recipes in the comfort of their own home and, thanks to Morris, even in the office, a hotel room or on a plane! The problem is, however, that these secret coffee recipes were never easily found and may have taken years to perfect using the trial-and-error method.
According to Morris, this new secret coffee recipe took 8 grueling months and hundreds of hours to formulate, testing and sampling over 40 different brands and coffee to bring you the most unforgettable and unique coffee experience you've ever encountered."
Depending on the coffee drinks, it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact ingredients required to recreate their taste. While a large part of the coffee craze is so popular due to the need for an energy boost, another important factor is the unmistakable taste associated with certain coffee drinks.
Because the theme is to provide readers with the information they need to learn how to make iced coffee without worry, Jim Morris offers his customers a risk-free, money back guarantee purchase.
Anyone who has searched for that perfect money saving coffee recipe and ended up going back to the same old coffee drink as before may find that Jim's easy recipes are just the ticket. Not only does everyone love to save money, but they also love to enjoy their favorite beverages.
In Jim's secret coffee recipe guide, readers will have the best of both worlds. No more coffee bills that are sickening to see when they are added up and no more waiting in line to order. With the new secrets of how to make iced coffee, readers are the chef and the only waiting involved is how long it will take for them to order this new guide…starbucks is really green now…
an I ain't jus talkin bout their beans.
~~Sherrill~~
the gourmet coffee snob sez
Always Drink Better Coffee
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Posted by gourmet coffee snob on 25 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Videos
coffee company commercial
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