Coffee Bean Info

How you get from the Coffee Bean to a Cup of Coffee.

May 29th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

All around the world people are enjoying coffee. As with everything they way they take their coffee varies, some like iced coffee, others want a strong expresso. Some people will only drink it in the morning, while others will enjoy a cup off coffee throughout the day. As these people are enjoying their drink, how many wonder how the coffee bean, picked somewhere in the world ended up in their cup.

From Bean to Cup

Coffee comes from the seeds of the coffee plant. These seeds or the coffee beans then undergo a process that prepares them for drinking. This starts with the coffee berries being picked from the tree and defruited.
Defruiting means the fruit is taken away and only the coffee beans are left. They are then dried and then sorted after which the coffee beans are sometimes aged or roasted directly.

The beans turn dark when undergoing the roasting process because the sucrose in them is caramelized. Some people prefer to do the roasting of the dried beans themselves at their home. Roasting brings out the flavor of the coffee beans because the heat it is exposed to turn carbohydrates and fats into aromatic oils. Roasting also burns off the moisture in the beans and also the carbon dioxide.

After the roasting, coffee beans are typically ground to make them ready for consumption. A Turkish grind is a straightforward process of making coffee where the ground coffee is mixed directly with water. This procedure makes very fine textured ground coffee. Other ways of preparing the ground coffee is using the percolator or coffee maker.

Different Kinds of Coffee

Espresso:
Made by forcing very hot but not boiling water through compacted ground coffee. A stronger flavor is made and there is more coffee bean matter in the drink. This process results in a stronger flavor so most espresso drinkers use very small cups to consume this.

For those who do not wish to be encumbered by the long process of percolating or making coffee from ground coffee, there are several alternatives. These are pre mixed coffee, available in canned form. Some varieties come already sweetened or already mixed with creamers. Other coffee drinks, which are pre-mixed, come in plastic bottles or cans.

Instant coffee:
Instant coffee is coffee granules that have been freeze dried or dried into soluble powder. These powdered coffee forms just need to be mixed with water and other ingredients depending on the drinker’s preference.
Many people like the convenience of just adding the granules to hot water compared to percolating, which may take time.

Some coffee producers also make their roasted coffee decaffeinated. This takes out the caffeine from the coffee beans but still leaves the flavor and aroma.

Hopefully this will have given you an idea of how the coffee bean ended up in your cup of coffee in the morning. No matter how you decide to enjoy your coffee in the morning it will have made quite journey. If your looking for the best coffee you have ever tasted I would recommend having a look at Mystic Monk Coffee that is roasted by monks passionate about coffee.