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What Your Latte Says About You You are interested in only pure and simple pleasures. You dont like to pollute your body or mind. You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious. You have a good deal of energy, but you pace yourself. You never burn out too fast. Youre addicted to caffeine. Theres no denying it. You are a child at heart, and you dont ever miss the opportunity to do something playful. You are complex and philosophical, but you
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About seven hours after we posted the note about championship celebrations, I watched regular-season merriment after Jon Lester tossed a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox. I always tear up when something like that happens, but this scenario is all the more impressive because Lester fought back from a bout with cancer that knocked him out of baseball for a while. Last spring, he won the final game of the World Series and now has a no-hitter to his name. I caught a story in the Pioneer Pres
Specialty Coffee Industry
When you talk about coffee, every one seems to have a share of stories to tell. It is because there are many people who drink coffee with ages 18 and up. As a result of our (yes, Im a caffeine lover too!) addiction to coffee, coffee shops offering specialty coffees keep on sprouting from every where. Since specialty coffee industry to grow, Im sure they are making more and more money. And why not, they are serving hundreds of caffeine lovers every day.
The specialty coffee industry is among the fastest growing food industries in the world. If you may have noticed and Im sure you have even if you dont drink coffee, you can find many coffee shops in almost every corner in the downtown area. Specialty coffee, sometimes called gourmet or premium coffee, is grown in the worlds most ideal coffee producing climates, like in Costa Rica, and prepared according to exacting standards. And these standards are set by the Specialty Coffee Association of America or SCAA.
SCAA is the trade association for the specialty coffee industry. One of its functions is to set standards for growing, roasting, and brewing. Members of the SCAA include coffee retailers, roasters, producers, exporters, and importers. The manufacturers of the coffee equipment and related products are members as well. SCAA provide its own information of specialty coffee in terms of cupping, brewing roasting, and more. Lets have a quick look.
Cupping is the method of systematic evaluation of the aroma and taste of coffee beans. It is usually used by growers, buyers, and roasters to evaluate the quality of a particular coffee sample. Proper cupping requires the observance to an exacting set of brewing standards and a formal step-by-step evaluation process. The six characteristics of coffee that a cupper generally looks include fragrance, aroma, taste, nose (vapors released by the coffee in the mouth), aftertaste, and body.
Roasting methods has 6 phases: drying cycle, first crack, roast initiation, pause, second crack, and stopping the roast. There had been numerous roasting methods being developed over the years with only one objective and that is to transfer heat to the coffee bean, initiating a series of chemical reactions that prepare it for consumption.
Brewing that is done the proper way enhances the taste of coffee by allowing you to extract the proper amount of flavor from the bean. There are six essential elements of good brewing: correct coffee- to- water ratio, a coffee grind that matches the brewing time, properly operating brewing equipment, optimum brewing method, high-quality water, and an appropriate filtering medium.
So, that is it. Specialty coffee hit it off in the market for many reasons. For one, it also have standards to follow in order to produce great tasting coffee drinks and simply because they taste better. If the coffee industry maintains its consistency in the implementation of strict adherence to quality, it will continue to soar.
Maxwell House Coffee
It started in 1892 when a coffee blend that Joel Cheek came up with for the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee became so popular that the hotel owner allowed no other coffee to be served to his guests. The special blend soon came to be known as Maxwell House coffee.
Years later, specifically on August 27, 1901, Joel Cheek and John Neal, his partner, decided to form the Nashville Coffee and Manufacturing Company and started producing Maxwell House coffee even to non-guests. The company was later renamed the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company.
1907 saw the birth of the legend that President Theodore Roosevelt, while on a visit to The Hermitage home of Andrew Jackson in Nashville, Tennessee, was served a cup of Maxwell House coffee. His comments became catch phrase for Maxwell House coffee that it is good to the last drop.
On August 1, 1928, after the Cheek-Neal Company sold its assets to the Postum Company, the company changed its name to the Maxwell House Products company. But later, it changed its name again and this time, to General Foods Corporation.
General Foods Corporation became responsible for making new improvements in food packing. One of its significant developments was vita-fresh a new vacuum packing technique for coffee that General Foods Corporation later used on Maxwell House coffee in 1931.
A year later, General Foods Corporation purchased the Sanka Coffee Corporation and started making the instant coffee version of the Maxwell House coffee. In 1942, the U.S. armed forces received their coffee provisions with the Maxwell House coffee mark on them.
In 1950, roughly three years after the launch of the Sanka caffeine-free instant coffee, General Foods Corporation introduced a new and improved formula of Maxwell House coffee, which uses flavor buds to enhance the taste.
With the emergence of commercial coffee makers some time in the 1970s, General Foods Corporation also released the Maxwell House coffee (A.D.C.). In doing so, it became the first company to eve release a nationally available brand of coffee that is especially ground, blended, and roasted for use in automatic drip coffee makers.
General Foods Corporation soon joined with Kraft, Inc. to form Kraft General Foods, the largest food company in the U.S. In 1990, the Maxwell House coffee had its 100th anniversary. In line with this joyous celebration, it launched its 1892 coffee and introduced its Lite 50% Reduced Caffeine Coffee. The result was a rich, full flavor regular coffee that coffee lovers drink but with only half the caffeine.
In 2004, Maxwell House coffee presents its Caf Collection coffee pods made from 100% premium Arabica beans. The pods are custom designed for the single serve home brewer, a development that represents the biggest home brewing innovation in three decades.
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